![]() ![]() 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. 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 Matthaus. But it also tells the story of those people who have done as much for the club's profile as any player, coach or chairman - Dortmund's unique supporters.Buchbeschreibung Paperback. How did this happen? How could a club that hasn't won a European trophy in twenty years so thoroughly capture people's imaginations?īuilding the Yellow Wall tells the story of Dortmund's roller-coaster ride from humble beginnings and lean decades to the revolution under Jürgen Klopp and subsequent amazing success and popularity. Every fortnight, an incredible number of foreigners eschew their own clubs and domestic leagues and travel to Dortmund to watch football, while people from all corners of the world dream of doing the same - of standing on the largest terrace in the world, the Yellow Wall. Now they are an international phenomenon - one of the most popular clubs and fastest-growing football brands in the world. Uli Hesse is an editor at 11Freunde, Germany’s biggest football monthly, and has been published on five continents.He is a long-standing contributor to FourFourTwo, the Blizzard or When Saturday Comes and has written more than 400 columns for ESPN FC. ![]() Towards the beginning of the twenty-first century, Borussia Dortmund were on the verge of going out of business. ![]() WINNER OF THE TELEGRAPH FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 ![]()
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