THE NEW BOOK BY OSKAR BECK:
“TOR IN STUTTGART”
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.
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World Cup in Switzerland 1954: “Friedrich, it’s raining!”
1954 World Cup Final: It was weather to make heroes. And Friedrich ‘Fritz’ Walter loved such bad weather.
World Cup in South Korea 2002: “It’s going to hurt for a few days”
It was his only mistake at the entire World Cup in South Korea: can the flawless Oliver Kahn cope with this?
World Cup in Spain 1982: “Arrest them all”
A dark day in World Cup history: the disgrace of Gijón. Oskar Beck tells how he witnessed this scandal live.
World Cup in England 1966: “I could see the insult on his face”.
Rudolf Kreitlein invented the yellow and red card out of self-defence at the 1966 World Cup.
World Cup in England 1966: “This greedy Kraut”
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.
World Cup in Mexico 1970: “Ita-lia! Ita-lia!”
Football was never more wonderful and terrible than the match of the century at the 1970 World Cup in Mexico.
World Cup in Germany 1974: “Block E 2, Standing, Price 15 Deutschmarks”
Diego Maradona: “I have seen God”
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: “They will have to chase me out of football”.
Jogi Löw is resisting to hand over the reins. The national coach does not realise that it is time to go.