![]() Originally published by WSC Books, this new edition is fully revised and updated. Tor (Goal) traces the extraordinary story of Germanys club and international football, from the days when it was regarded as a dangerously foreign pastime. Tor challenges the myth that German football is predictable or efficient and. Two of them were nominated as German Football Book of the Year, while the first of his four English-language. Tor: The Story of German Football Paperback 1 Dec. Uli also writes a regular Bundesliga column for ESPN and has written a book about his beloved Borussia Dortmund. His book Tor:The Story of German Football, a detailed and engrossing history of the game in Germany, is a regular on any list of the best European football books. I picked up his extraordinary book, Tor The Story of German Football, to do a little research and got in touch with him for an interview. ![]() 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 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. Uli Hesse is the author of ten football books. Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger has compiled an informative, readable, fascinating and very likeable account of the history and ethos of German football, and I was. Germany did not have professional players or a national league until the 1960s, yet it became one of the. Uli Hesse is the great English language chronicler of German football history. 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. In this extract from Tor The Story of German Football, Uli Hesse documents how the counter pressing tactic adopted by Jrgen Klopp at Dortmund has helped Joachim Lw's national team Borussia.
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