Golaço Stories

Around 12 years ago the Kurtanovic family moved from Serbia to the small German town of Florsheim am Main in big numbers. The teenagers of the Kurtanovic family immediately started playing for the youth team of the local club DJK Florsheim 2, who's professional team at that time played in the 5th tier of the German soccer pyramid. Eventually they grew up, left for college and started careers, but during the Summer of 2024 their lives would change. Haris Kurtanovic was invited to take over the management of the club, who now found itself in the 10th division and in...

In 1956 CONMEBOL, the South American confederation, organized a cup who's purpose was to strengthen the competition between the continent's strongest nations: Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Paraguay was later included as well after the first edition. The Atlantic Cup was played three times, one in 1956, then in 1960 and lastly in 1976. In all three occasions Brazil took the title with Argentina coming second, while Uruguay and Paraguay alternated between 3rd and 4th place. The first edition in 1956 also featured a parallel cup for clubs, the Atlantic Cup for Clubs which featured five clubs from each of the...

Kaiser Chiefs, indie rock band from Leeds, has an interesting connection to African soccer. More specifically, as the name suggests, with the South African giant Kaizer Chiefs FC. The band was formed in 1996 with the name Runston Parva, after a small village in Yorkshire, and later got shortened to just Parva. In 2003 however, due to complications with record labels, the band decided to they needed a complete rebrand. The band members were huge Leeds United fans and at that time the club legend was Lucas Radebe. Radebe was playing his 10th consecutive season for Leeds, becoming both team captain...

June 30th 2002 will forever be remembered in the world of soccer as the day Brazil beat Germany 2-0 in the World Cup final and added a 5th star to its' crest. It is not as remembered, however, that on that same day another match was played between FIFA's two worst ranked nations: Bhutan and Montserrat. The story of how this match came to be begins with the fact that Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup. Two Dutch ad-agents then had the idea to promote a friendly match between the two worst nations in the world, hoping...

In 1993 a new era for Palmeiras would begin in Brazil. Italian dairy giant Parmalat would invest heavily in the club and lead them to a decade of glory. Coincidentally (or not), around the same time Palmeiras would switch their jersey manufacturer from Adidas to the unknown Rhumell. There was a series of issues with this new obscure local brand. First of all, it seemed like a blatant knock-off of the Danish brand Hummel, in Portuguese both names are read exactly the same. In addition, during its first year Rhumell even used the same logo, the distinct arrows that are...