![]() Crucially, carrying the ball with the hands was outlawed: association football (soccer) and rugby became two separate entities.įootball continued to undergo rapid development into the 1900s, accelerated by industrialisation. Rules were established - but continued to change - and the size and weight of the match-ball standardised. ![]() The first football association was formed in England in 1863. Jadon Sancho is one of world footballs most talented players of now and the future. 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.įully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Tor! is the definitive history of German football.Through the history of soccer we have seen multitudes of stars be born. 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. 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.
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