‘So much is written about football, but I’ve never read anything like this!’
Philipp Lahm, Captain of the German National Football Team
Literature and football; aren’t both of them basically games? But despite the element of game in fiction and on the pitch, isn’t it all about winning, all about losing, about everything or nothing? Moritz Rinke, one of the most famous playwrights in Germany, novelist and striker in the DFB (German author’s national team) himself, has at last devoted a book to his biggest passion.
He imagines himself as a pool security man for the German national team in the Schlosshotel Grune-wald; or with Beckenbauer at the toilet; he writes love letters on behalf of Angela Merkel to Bastian Schweinsteiger and rants for Jogi Löw, produces mini dramas about Klose’s goal crises and secretly kidnaps the DFB cup.
But he also takes a look at the soul of football, the sport in all its facets, the social relationships and the emotions that it sets free, in an unbelievably funny, sharp-witted and charming way.
Hilarious, clever and charming football stories from the author of the bestseller ‘Der Mann der durch das Jahrhundert fiel’ (90,000 copies sold).
