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041    eng 
082 04 796.3340943|223 
092 0  796.334|bengelska 
100 1  Hesse, Uli,|d1966-|4aut 
245 10 Tor! :|bthe story of German football /|cUli Hesse 
250    Revised and updated edition 
264  1 Edinburgh :|bPolaris Publishing,|c[2022] 
264  4 |c©2022 
300    xv, 463 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates
       |billustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour)|c24
       cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    Includes index 
520    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 Germany’s 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 nation’s view of 
       itself.?Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World 
       Cup, Tor! is the definitive history of German football 
650  0 Soccer|zGermany|xHistory 
650  0 Soccer|xSocial aspects|zGermany 
650  0 Soccer|xPolitical aspects|zGermany 
650  7 Fotboll|2sao 
650  7 Idrottshistoria|2sao 
651  7 Tyskland|2sao 
651  7 Västtyskland|2sao