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.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 Matth-. 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.Fully revised and updated ahead of the 2022 World Cup, Tor! is the definitive history of German football.
