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BOOK
Title Tor! : the story of German football / Uli Hesse
Imprint Edinburgh : Polaris Publishing, [2022]
©2022

LIBRARY / MAP CALL NUMBER STATUS MESSAGE
 Mediehotell  796.334 engelska    CHECK SHELF  ---
Edition Revised and updated edition
Descript xv, 463 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) 24 cm
Note Includes index
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
Subject Fotboll
Idrottshistoria
Soccer -- Germany -- History
Soccer -- Social aspects -- Germany
Soccer -- Political aspects -- Germany
Tyskland
Västtyskland
Classmark 796.3340943
ISBN/ISSN 9781913538743
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