After a lengthy closed season – the A-League is upon us once again. Considering the return of Socceroos such as Harry Kewell, Brett Emerton and Dario Vidosic, many are expecting this to be the best season of the league ever! We preview every club, interview a player from every team and our panel of experts make their predictions for the season.

Elsewhere, we speak to rising Socceroo James Troisi from Turkey, Wayne Rooney chats to us about his new hair and winning title number 20 this year, we go behind the scenes at Barcelona to discover what Pep Guardiola is really like and our series of features assessing youth development starts at Dutch giants Ajax.

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  • iPad exclusive extra – The Beautiful Game – bringing you the best pictures in football
  • James Troisi’s Australian FourFourTwo exclusive picture slideshows
  • Matchday Saturday do ‘And Another Thing’ – behind-the-scenes picture slideshows
  • Steve Horvat talks us through his career in pictures

The October issue also includes:

Features

  • One-on-One: Marco Materazzi - Known as ‘the Matrix’, the Italian World Cup-winner reloads to answer your questions
  • And Another Thing: Matchday Saturday crew - Adam, Robbie and Bozza sit down and tell us how they see Season Seven of the A-League panning out
  • The evolution of pace - Formerly the tool of wingers only, pace has become a vital ingredient for all players 

Up Front

  • Top 10 cost-cutting measures - “Sack the fake Santa, boys, Christmas is cancelled”, and other mad penny-pinching initiatives
  • Football’s ivory tickler - Meet Jay Tabb: Championship player for Reading and classical piano student
  • Michael Lynch - The A-League is the most closely-contested code in Australia. And the AFL are worried…
  • At the End of the Day: Terry Venables - The former Socceroos coach on his glory years in the dugout and political football
  • Simon Hill - Ange Postecoglou might be basking in glory now, but history shows that success is fleeting in the A-League

Planet Football

  • Taser used on player as he rejoices with the fans!
  • Deco: why the Brazilian league is the best
  • River’s weird relegation
  • John Spencer’s airline advert
  • The beach soccer tournament without sand!

Performance

  • Meditate like Messi – it’s all in the mind
  • Jordan Henderson’s pre-season masterclass
  • The personalities every team needs to succeed
  • 10 Things We Learned This Month
  • Time your run to perfection
  • How to score from a free-kick
  • Whipping it in from a corner

You can now buy the latest issue of FourFourTwo without leaving your home or office! The latest issue of FourFourTwo can be posted for only $8.95 (no extra shipping in Australia!) what are you waiting for?

 

A-League Season Preview
Our fledging domestic league returns for a seventh season. We preview every A-League side and interview a players from every club. With Kewell and Emerton back, will this be the best season ever?

 

James Troisi Interview
Former Newcastle United frontman James Troisi on early morning wake-up calls in Turkey, match-fixing and making the Socceroos grade

 

 

Wayne Rooney Interview
Rooney’s return to scoring form fired Man United to a record 19th title. Now, he’s hungry for no.20, toppling Barcelona and glory with the Three Lions...

 

Inside the mind of a genius: Pep Guardiola
Just who is the man who has masterminded arguably the greatest club side of all time? The only journalist to have got past Pep Guardiola’s ‘guard dog’ reveals all...

 

Youth development part one: Ajax
With their famed talent pool starting to dry up, the Amsterdam giants have gone space age in an attempt to get back to the top. FourFourTwo unveils the future of youth development...