‘Call Me Mad, Call Me Crazy’: The miracle of Berne Gravestones for Terraces: Rebuilding in the occupied zones A Matter of Survival: Herberger and Schön amid the ruins Angst and Anschluss: Football under the Nazis Three Men on a Mission: The national team gets serious The Club, 1918-30: All roads lead to Nuremberg On the Turn: German football’s struggle for respectability 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 misfit Lothar Matthäus the coaches reshaping the modern game and even. 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 the postwar triumphs, the World Cup victories, and all the way up to the present day. 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. ‘Beautifully crafted, demolishes myths with the cold-blooded efficiency of a literary Gerd Müller’ – The Times ‘In Hesse’s capable hands, the history of German football seems more entertaining, unpredictable and scandal-infested than England’s’ – FourFourTwo ‘without question the most entertaining historical football book ever written’ – The Guardian
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