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 Krefeld in 1960, lives in Berlin and has worked for taz , Stern , and Die Zeit , and served as an editor at Süddeutsche Zeitung and SPIEGEL . Since 2010, he has been working for the soccer magazine 11Freunde , currently as a reporter. Three of his many books have been named “Football Book of the Year”: Die Fußball-Matrix (2010), Wenn wir vom Fußball träumen (2015), and Um jeden Preis (2023). His books have been published in several languages.