![]() ![]() It also holds a record (tied with Spain) three UEFA European Championships ( 1972, 1980, 1996), and won the FIFA Confederations Cup in 2017. The Germany national football team has won four FIFA World Cups ( 1954, 1974, 1990, 2014), being the joint-second most successful nation in the tournament only surpassed by Brazil. ![]() Supporters choreography for the German Football Association club 1. 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.Close ▲ Allianz Arena in Munich, home stadium of club FC Bayern München. 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 Matthaus. 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. 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. The first comprehensive history of German football in English, Tor! traces Germany's amazing success on the field throughout the turbulent politics of the 20th century.
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