Tor!: The Story of German Football
Ulrich Hesse-Lichtenberger
Language: English
Pages: 304
ISBN: 095401345X
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
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Once one link weakened, it would be all over. That’s what happened at Hamburg and what would happen at Cologne, Stuttgart and Dortmund. The prime example, however, remains Werder Bremen. In 1970, the calm, softly spoken Franz Böhmert (an anaesthetist by trade) was elected president of Bremen. Initially, the club’s idea was to spend lots of money and hire big-name coaches to acquire success. That backfired badly. After years of mid-table obscurity, Bremen were relegated in 1980, having conceded.
And Vogts? In 1998, he was so desperate, having lost all his potential sweepers to injuries, that he made a pilgrimage to Canossa (Munich) to make up with Matthäus and have him sweep up at the World Cup. It was the beginning of the end for Berti. Derwall, Beckenbauer and Vogts all toyed, at one time or another, with the idea of abandoning the sweeper system in favour of a flat back four. They were all knowledgeable enough to realise that the liberos available to them were first and foremost.
Orientation towards the nation,’ adding that organised football ‘was less concerned with the clubs and local identification than with the national team and “Germany”.’ She supports her claim by saying that league games still took place during the First World War, that games took place between representative city teams, and that even soldiers in the trenches played football. As much as I sympathise with any thoughtful approach to football, I don’t believe the facts bear this out. There’s no.
Münzenberg to postpone his wedding and come to Italy, but Felix Linnemann insisted on not changing the basic set-up of the Sweden game for the semi-final. Still, Germany might have won a close, intensely fought match in which the Czechs finally triumphed 3-1, had it not been for three mistakes by the Dresden goalkeeper Willi Kress. So taken were the victors with their opponents that the head of the Czech delegation, a man by the wonderful name of Professor Pelikan, later remarked that ‘this was.
Ball on the ground.’ Germans attempted to do like the masters off the pitch, too. On January 28, 1900, envoys of 86 clubs came together in Leipzig, among them Walther Bensemann, representing Mannheim, and Ferdinand Hueppe, representing Prague. (Prague was the capital of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian empire, but it had a large German population and had had a German club, DFC Prag, since 1892.) This collection of delegates formed the Deutscher Fussball Bund. Hueppe, at 48 the oldest.