Ball games have long been a feature of human play and the game of football as we know it today has been a fixture of life for societies worldwide since the 19th century. Who invented football and ...

Cristiano Ronaldo is mourning the passing of the scout who discovered him for Sporting ... of the greatest names in the history of national football and, above all, in the history of Sporting ...

The list of players he discovered and nurtured includes Ronaldo ... Aurelio Pereira was partly responsible for Portugal's greatest football achievement, as the Euro 2016-winning squad featured ...

He discovered many of the greatest national talents and brought them to Sporting CP, where they grew and thrived and later moved on to the biggest stages of world football. "From Paulo Futre ...

Tributes have been paid to the Black Country non-league football coach who discovered Steve Bull, Andy Thompson and David Burrows.