Koch is played by Daniel Brühl, who is better known for his role as Niki Lauda in Rush or Alex in Good Bye Lenin, which is – in my view – the best German film out there. A biopic of the struggles he faced to get the game accepted at his Braunschweig school is brought to life in the 2011 film Der Ganz Große Traum. He also translated the FA rules into German in the 1870s. One of the men credited with introducing football into Germany is the sports teacher, Konrad Koch. The German Fitbaw Podcast is run by a couple of Scottish guys – and I’ve been a guest talking about German football roots, so check it out! German Football Filmsĭer Ganz Große Traum ( Lessons of a Dream) Talking Fussball is the longest-running podcast in English about German football. It features a whole host of great writers (and yours truly, from time to time…) and is always alive with fascinating content and great design. Upvote any you'd read and enjoyed, or have on your must-read list.If you want a regularly quarterly fix of German football stories from the past and present, make sure you subscribe to Halb Vier ( Half-past Three). So forget the cash-in autobiographies and unwanted opinions, we’ve compiled a list of the best football books that will appeal to all fans of the beautiful game, no matter which team you support. Get more eloquent people to write about football, though, and there are countless fascinating stories to tell. Taylor Parkes’ evisceration of Lovejoy on Football (written by Tim the TV presenter, not John the fictional antiques dealer) is a more startling literary accomplishment than the book could ever hope to be. Ashley Cole famously made no friends when he wrote in My Defence about how he’d nearly crashed his car after being offered a paltry £55,000 a week by Arsenal.Īnd it’s not just the players. Wayne Rooney’s My Story So Far, released when he was just 20 years old, was unsurprisingly bereft of insight or interest. It’s a generalisation, of course, but just look at the books they write. When looking for the best football books, we'd actually steer clear of ones written by footballers.
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