![]() ![]() I've read Tor!, Morbo, Calcio, and Brilliant Orange and I'd rank them as follows:Ĥ: Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football As a side note, Germany won the 1954 World Cup before they had professional football or a nationwide league, a fact that I found amazing. By comparison, the Football League started up in the 1880s. ![]() Tor! takes you from the beginnings of football in Germany to how it was organised, how the clubs came into being, and why it was until the 1960s(!) that Germany had a national league, and it was the 1970s until there was full professionalism and no maximum wage. ![]() If only every book about football in other countries (Spain, Italy, Holland, France) was written more like this one then they'd be improved. This is a brilliant book about German football, the chapter about the naming of German teams is worth the money alone. ![]()
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