We’ve already introduced you to ProChance: the special football project that gives undiscovered talent another shot of making it into the professional game.Their big aim is talent-spotting players in the key age groups of U15 to U19, putting them in front of key decision-makers at pro clubs with their regular showcase events. ProChance’s strong industry contacts have already made such occasions a reality – and now they’re giving one FourFourTwo reader the incredible, money-can’t-buy chance to trial with Championship side Huddersfield Town.A ProChance showcase squad played a fixture against the Terriers in December, where the club’s head of academy recruitment, Emyr Humphries, was able to cast his eye over the carefully selected hopefuls on display. Previously, Humphries has described ProChance’s...
This interview first appeared in the January 2020 issue of FourFourTwo. Subscribe to the magazine now for less than £3.80 an issue and get £29.97 worth of bookazines absolutely freeFive minutes. That’s all Megan Rapinoe needed to make her statement. She did it without saying a single word. On a summer’s evening in Paris, the USA were playing France in a World Cup quarter-final. All eyes were on Rapinoe. In the previous round, she had scored both goals against Spain. Then, a video interview was released, filmed before the tournament. Asked if she’d accept an invite to the White House if the USA won the World Cup, Rapinoe’s reply was instant: “I’m not going to the f**king White House.” She’d...
Liverpool are currently living as other successful teams have in the past, with anything short of perfection incurring a chorus of contrived glee. Manchester United experienced that in the 1990s, Arsenal briefly flirted with it in the decade that followed, and Chelsea and Manchester City have both occupied a similar place in the years since.Each of those teams were different and not all of those periods were truly dynastic, but they remain bound by the responses they provoked. People loved it when those teams lost.As they do with Liverpool. The defeats to Watford and Chelsea were almost national events. So much so that had the British weather been slightly more mild, it might have brought out the bunting and the...
Ten minutes on the clock, 80 teamsto guess - though obviously, some appear more than once.NOTE: We have listed each team's current league, not necessarily the one they were in at the time.Remember to tweet your scores@FourFourTwoand share with your friends.NOW TRYQuiz! How many of the last 20 managers to win the FA Cup can you name?CHECK OUT THE NEW ISSUEIn the mag: Stars of the decade! Rashford, Haaland, Martinelli Neves, Liverpool's last title win and more What a performance from Billy Gilmour last night - he bossed the match for Chelsea and sent his team to an FA Cup quarter-final.Getting to the last eight teams in the cup is deceptively difficult. There are those that make a habit of...
Looking for FIFA 20? Get your hints, tips, lists and news hereWith the next editionarriving meremonths before two new consoles, FIFA 21 will be a hugely important edition of the most popular game in sport.Just as FIFA was seizing a monopoly on the football gaming market, PES pulled off a major scalp last summer by acquiring the exclusive rights to Juventus, forcing FIFA to remove their official kits and call them “Piemonte Calcio” in FIFA 20.What’s more, it feels as though FIFA’s two flagship game modes are under siege.While improvements to player and press interactivity and shaping potential added a glisten to Career Mode, there are rumours we could be due a major overhaul of the franchise.The narrative around Ultimate...