World Soccer is an English football magazine, published by Kelsey Media. The magazine was established in 1960 and is the oldest continually published football magazine in the United Kingdom. It specializes in the international football scene. Its regular contributing writers include Brian Glanville, Keir Radnedge, Sid Lowe and Tim Vickery. World Soccer is a member of the European sports magazine (ESM), an umbrella group of similar magazines printed in other languages. The members of this group elect a European "Team of the Month" and a European "Team of the Year". The audience type for this magazine would be "mainstreamers " from Young and Rubicans 4C's model. This magazines main focus is to keep the audience up to date with football news.
This magazine features many football superstars and many stories about them. The magazine cover is pretty identical to other WorldSoccer front covers where they have the main image (In this example, Lewandowski). This is a main convention of this genre because it has a main image of them playing the sport which shows that it is a sports magazine. Then there is other smaller stories on the left side of the page. The masthead on the magazine is identical to the other front covers from this magazine company this is because the word world is in Red to exaggerate the idea that the magazine is about football from around the world. which allows the magazine to be easily recognizable to its audience. Most of the settings of the pictures are during a football game which makes it more realistic. The magazine cover would most likely relate to a male audience of 16-30 of a moderate income and an interest in football.
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The website for the magazine is very minimalistic but it also informative because it has links to their magazine and other features of their magazine for example the team of the seasons and months for the magazine. However this article featuring Barcelona's stadium , Nou Camp, The article tells us the insights of the el clasico which shows that they want to tell the audience about the club and the stadium.
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