Almost Everything About Football

This book lists (almost) everything worth knowing about soccer – German soccer but mainly international soccer.

No one really needs to know the names of the coaches having attended over 100 international matches. The magic of the herein collected knowledge is only unfolded through its uselessness. The book contains lists of the fastest goals, hattricks and red cards as well as a load of records and historical mistakes.

The reader finds out which clubs are named after persons and about heraldic animals in different team´s coats of arms. The author neither conceals Luxemburg´s long sorrows nor the successes of different National teams. He lists the names of Aruba´s and Bangladesh´s National players, documents Giovanni Trapattoni´s legendary speech and writes down very individual soccer-lyrics.

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  • Publisher: KiWi-Taschenbuch
  • Release: 19.08.2005
  • ISBN: 978-3-462-03639-8
  • 240 Pages
  • Author: Christoph Biermann
Almost Everything About Football
Christoph Biermann Almost Everything About Football
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Christoph Biermann

Christoph Biermann , born in 1960, is a member of the editorial board of the football magazine 11 Freunde and previously worked for Spiegel and Süddeutsche Zeitung. Biermann is one of Germany’s most renowned football journalists and has published numerous books about the sport. His book Die Fußball-Matrix (“The Football Matrix”) was voted “Football Book of the Year 2011”. Fast alles über 50 Jahre Bundesliga („(Almost) Everything You Need to Know about 50 Years of Bundesliga“) was published in 2013, followed by Wenn wir vom Fußball träumen (“When We Dream of Football”) in 2014.