''Offside'' is a Swedish bimonthly

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. The magazine takes its name from the football law of the same name.

History and profile

''Offside'' was started in March 2000. It is published by Offside Press AB six times a year but there are often an extra issue published in connection to larger events, such as the

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. The magazine had its headquarters in

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. Each edition of around 130 pages has three to five long articles of 10–30 pages and several shorter interviews and reports. The coverage of the articles include the whole world—from a

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match in

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, to the

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, to the lower divisions of

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and to the fan culture around

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—and people that are or have written for Offside include

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, Phil Ball, Sid Lowe,

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, Peter Birro and Thomas Bodström. The two editors of ''Offside'', Mattias Göransson and Tobias Regnell won the Swedish journalist prize Stora Journalistpriset in 2002 "with knowledge, love and feeling for the game, having moved the borders of sport journalism", and the magazine has been described as "

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for the 'intellectual supporter'". In 2011, ''Offside'' made an interview with the Swedish footballer Anton Hysén, in which he came out as gay. The interview received much attention in media around the world. ''Offside'' had an average circulation of 18,400 in mid-2005.

References

External links

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