German football is full of Heroes and Villians and they are all part of TOR. 3 World Cup championships and 3 runner's up 4 European Championships and numerous club championships.īut TOR is more than competitions and scores. However almost no other country can match their legacy. Germany wins the World Cup in 1954, but a national domestic league isn't started until 1963. ![]() In TOR (which means Goal in German) he covers the game from the beginning in the middle of the 19th Century. You can read his regular column on-line at ESPN's SOCCERNET.COM. ULI-HESSE LICHTENBERGER is a working Football Journalist. Here comes TOR:THE STORY OF GERMAN FOOTBALL. Watching the weekly match highlights left me hungry to learn more about the history of German football beyond the last World or European Cup. In it's time it was almost the only source of European Football in the US, although with a German bent. Remember an old TV series SOCCER MADE IN GERMANY with it's entertaining British host TOBY CHARLES? It ran on Public TV in the US in the mid 70's through the early 80's. demolishes myths with the cold-blooded efficency of a literary Gerd Muller" ? The Times 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. 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. 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. ![]() 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.
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