Mundial #33
190 x 260 mm, 100 pages
London, UK
Quarterly
First published 2014
Editor-in-chief: James Bird
Art director: Alex Mertekis
Headlining this ‘Rebel’ issue of our favourite football mag are two players of note in outspoken ex-USWNT winger Megan Rapinoe and the fiery (Super) Mario Balotelli, part of a set of features exploring what it means to rebel in football today. They're joined by the likes of Hamburg's anti-establishment St. Pauli, the 2021 shutdown of a United-Liverpool match, and a profile of Abubaker Abed, a young football journalist-turned-war reporter in Gaza.
Plus: a Cameroon kit banned by FIFA, Welsh women's Sunday League, 21 rebels with causes, and a load of ‘shithousery’.
On the Journal
At work with editor Dan Sandison: ‘We’d had quite a few offers from weird and wonderful organisations to buy us out over the years, and we’d pretty consistently turned them down. This felt different though, they were publishers and football people. We got on. Fast forward six months and we are working on a magazine for the first time in about three years… It’s been a long time in the making, and we are all made up to be back.’
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