Eight by Eight 10 Spring 2017

After a long wait, Issue 10 of Eight by Eight is out. From the neck-to-neck title races across Europe to the do-or-die U.S. World Cup qualification campaign, this issue is full of must-read material on the biggest storylines and players in world football, alongside the unexpected and less-well traveled stories that make the game worth watching (and, in our opinion, make the magazine worth reading). So, what’s inside the new issue? Here’s a sneak peek:

“Zidane’s real language is power,” writes Eight by Eight contributor Corley Miller in this searing essay that constructs a universal theory of Zidane from the seemingly incongruous fragments of his life. For Miller, Zidane’s grace and elegance on the pitch belies a burning need to dominate, a trait that can be seen in his ruthlessly effective Real Madrid side as much as in his most notorious moment on the field, the 2006 World Cup final headbutt-heard-round-the-world.