FIFA CONFEDERATIONS CUPThe two-week FIFA tournament is more than just a warm-up for the World Cup. We report from Moscow and Saint Petersburg about white nights, convivial beer gardens and well-travelled fans.

PRESIDENT'S MESSAGEEngland have won the FIFA U-20 World Cup. Could this be the birth of a new golden generation? Gianni Infantino says: “For years, English football fans have been debating about the struggle to develop young players – and then you realise you are watching this rock-solid team, filled with talent, lifting the trophy as world champions. It does not get any more auspicious than that.

COOL STADIUMThe first stadium to be completed for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar has opened its doors and allayed all concerns that the heat could be a problem in five years’ time.

PANINI COLLECTORSVisitors to the FIFA World Football Museum in Zurich can feast their eyes on over 4,000 stickers (going back as far as the 1970 World Cup). A report on collectors, faces and sideburns.

BENFICA The Portuguese giants are aiming to rejoin the global elite. How good were they? We take a look back at Benfica’s salad days.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALLThey want to play as often and for as long as possible. New U-15 tournaments have given football-mad girls in East and South-East Asia the chance to do just that.

THE OVERHEAD KICKSuccessful exponents of the art score spectacular goals and thrill fans – but what is the overhead kick, actually?