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 book is written in German language.
1954 World Cup Final: It was weather to make heroes. And Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Walter loved such bad weather.
It was his only mistake at the entire World Cup in South Korea: can the flawless Oliver Kahn cope with this?
A dark day in World Cup history: the disgrace of Gijón. Oskar Beck tells how he witnessed this scandal live.
Rudolf Kreitlein invented the yellow and red card out of self-defence at the 1966 World Cup.
The goal that wasn’t a goal. Oskar Beck tells the story of how Helmut Haller stole the Wembley ball and sold it back to the English.
Football was never more wonderful and terrible than the match of the century at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
At the 1974 World Cup, a ticket for the final still cost 15DM.
They say that Diego Maradona was able to do things that a human being cannot do – and at some point, the day came when he believed them.
Jogi Löw is resisting to hand over the reins. The national coach does not realise that it is time to go.
THE NEW BOOK BY OSKAR BECK:
“TOR IN STUTTGART”
Your way to professional football
Your way to professional football
Your way to professional football
World Cup in Switzerland 1954: “Friedrich, it’s raining!”
World Cup in South Korea 2002: “It’s going to hurt for a few days”
World Cup in Spain 1982: “Arrest them all”
World Cup in England 1966: “I could see the insult on his face”.
World Cup in England 1966: “This greedy Kraut”
World Cup in Mexico 1970: “Ita-lia! Ita-lia!”
World Cup in Germany 1974: “Block E 2, Standing, Price 15 Deutschmarks”
Diego Maradona: “I have seen God”
Jogi Löw: “They will have to chase me out of football”.
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