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Oskar Beck: Goal in Stuttgart – Football (hi)stories

The legendary sports reporter Oskar Beck is publishing a richly illustrated review of football history in Stuttgart, one of the cities for the matches of the European Football Championship 2024. “Goals and triumphs, tragedies and tears, the craziest back-kick in football history, incredible heroic deeds and shameless acts of shame”. The greatest players in the world of football have worked their magic here, from Pele to Maradona, Ronaldo and Messi. If you want to know how a Stuttgart referee came up with the idea for yellow and red cards, how a journalist from the Neckar won the 1974 World Cup final against the Dutch and how a local judge dried up the Bundesliga swamp after the worst bribery scandal – you absolutely must read this book. As in his book “Und alles wegen Ali” (2021), Oskar Beck’s sports stories are a piece of contemporary history. Beck, who has won various journalism awards for his writing, was born in 1949. Former VfB president Staudt contributed the foreword to “Tor in Stuttgart”.