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Tor!: The Story of German Football

English

By (author): Uli Hesse

Germany did not have professional players or a national league until the 1960s, yet it became one of the most successful football nations in the world.

Tor! (Goal!) traces the extraordinary story of Germanys club and international football, from the days when it was regarded as a dangerously foreign pastime, through the horrors of the Nazi years to postwar triumphs and the crisis of the new century.

Tor! challenges the myth that German football is predictable or efficient and brings to life the fascinating array of characters who shaped it: the betrayed pioneer Walther Bensemann; the enigmatic genius Sepp Herberger; the all-conquering Franz Beckenbauer; the modern misfit Lothar Matthäus. And even the radio commentator Herbert Zimmermann, whose ecstatic cries of Tor! greeted the winning goal in the 1954 World Cup final and helped change a whole nations view of itself.

Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Tor! is the definitive history of German football.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 644g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 05 May 2022
  • Publisher: Polaris Publishing Limited
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781913538743

About Uli Hesse

Uli Hesse is an editor at 11Freunde Germanys biggest football monthly and has been published on five continents. His first English-language book Tor! The Story of German Football was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award while two of his German books have been nominated for that countrys Football Book of the Year prize. In June 2017 he was appointed a member of the German Academy for Football Culture. His book Building the Yellow Wall won Football Book of the Year at the 2019 British Sports Book Awards.

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