Affairs / Sport
Up for the cup
The World Cup is a million different stories in one. As the tournament gets under way this month, Monocle looks at how players, coaches, companies and fans from all over the globe have been getting ready.
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Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Monday 21 June
In a different league
During the World Cup, football-crazed Italy grinds to a halt as fans glue themselves to the TV to watch the Azzurri play.
Business / Sport
Monocolumn
Thursday 15 October
Staying on side
As the qualifying matches for football’s World Cup come to a close over the coming weeks, thousands of people around the world will be planning trips to the tournament to be held next June in South Africa.
Culture / Sport
Monocolumn
Tuesday 31 August
World Cup logo bashing
Brazil’s logo for the 2014 World Cup was supposed to symbolise unity.
Affairs / Defence
Monocolumn
Saturday 29 January
Will Russia be able to protect the world’s sports stars?
As mourning turns into recrimination following Monday’s attack on Domodedovo Airport, fears will inevitably be voiced internationally questioning Russia’s abilities to safely host two major world events it has planned for…
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Tuesday 13 December
FIFA tells Brazil the new rules of the game
It’s no secret that Brazil is a football-obsessed nation.
Affairs / Sport
Monocolumn
Monday 14 June
The horns and the dilemma
Football, as a spectacle, is uniquely dependent on its fans.
Business / Sport
Monocolumn
Wednesday 20 October
The empty stadiums: South Africa’s white elephants
What should a city do with a football stadium no one uses, sitting on prime land in the centre of town? Demolish it, you say.
Design / Start-ups
Monocolumn
Monday 17 May
Grounds for concern
When it’s filled with 67,000 fans singing so loud and jumping so hard that you can feel the concrete stands vibrating under your feet, the Morumbi football stadium is a remarkable place.
Business / Sport
Poised to strike
In this issue, for our World Cup series, we visit Puma, the sports brand that has become most associated with African football. As the competition heads to the continent, will Puma be the PR victor?
Affairs / Media
Fighting talk
Al Jazeera has become the must-watch news channel for the unrest in the Middle East. But it is also a potent soft power weapon that the channel’s owner, the Emir of Qatar, is happy to wield. Monocle travels to the headqu…
Affairs / Soft Power
Tender is the might
Conceived of only 21 years ago, already most nations want a “soft power” strategy – a way of winning the world over without resorting to military-industrial might. Monocle has indexed the top 30 soft power nations, which…
Design / Architecture
Building momentum
2012 offered many architectural talking points, from Renzo Piano’s pointy Shard in London to K2S’s small but perfectly formed wooden Chapel of Silence in Helsinki; 2013 promises even more. Here are seven projects completing…
Design / Architecture
Design/Architecture Briefing
Bridges, books, shops and other products and projects catching our eyes this month, plus our design editor's column.
Affairs / Society
Americas Briefing
The Monocle election watch looks to the Dominican Republic, Mexican Joaquín “Chapo” Guzmán, the world's new most-wanted man, and a Q&A with Claudia Paz y Paz, Attorney general of Guatemala.