It is one of the joys of world football that six-hundred Croatian-Canadians could find a reason to drunkenly sing the praises of a Mozambique-born Portuguese superstar in a cultural centre on an industrial street in Toronto. Eusebio, high on champagne and the recent memory of a massive footballing heist, had only two days earlier scored the first of three Toronto goals to upset the Minnesota Click to continue reading...

Here's a great article from the New York Times on the history of soccer games that were played at Yankee Stadium during the years, including a classic one between Santos and Benfica in 1968, which features 2 of the all-time greats in Pele and Eusebio. I did some digging and found some footage of a game between Manchester United and Tottenham Hotspurs from 1952. Click to continue reading...

Having watched Eusebio score 9 goals during the 1966 World Cup in England, the designers at PUMA decided that he should be the man to help them develop a signature football boot. The process took two years to complete and in 1968 the PUMA King was born. The boot over time would become just as [...] Click to continue reading...

The King XL FG Ruby is a 40th year anniversary special edition boot, designed to commemorate the iconic career of the PUMA King boot line. Based on the career of Eusébio (the Black Pearl), one of football's greatest players, the edition features the years "1968-2008″ below the King logo and comes in a red colour having two [. Click to continue reading...