There is a kind of footballer who rarely makes the highlight reel but whose absence is felt the moment he stops playing. In Uruguay, that description fits Gustavo Varela. Born in M

Ask a football fan to name the most elegant midfielder of the modern era, and one answer comes up again and again: Luka Modrić. Born in Zadar, Croatia, in September 1985, Modrić ro

Georginio Wijnaldum was born in Rotterdam in 1990 and came through the youth system at Feyenoord, one of the Netherlands’ most historic clubs. That background matters. Feyenoord ha