Manuel Neukirchner: Deutschland, dein Fußball!

A book like a museum! In "Deutschland, dein Fußball" (Germany, your soccer ), Manuel Neukirchner presents 44 cult objects and stories about German soccer history, from the beginnings to the present, sometimes iconic, sometimes cheerful, sometimes thoughtful.

Included are legendary mementos such as the shoes of World Cup goal scorers Helmut Rahn and Mario Götze, Gerd Müller's 1974 jersey, Jens Lehmann's famous penalty shootout cheat sheet from 2006, or the Roman penalty spot from which Andy Brehme shot Germany to the World Cup title in 1990. In addition, there are surprising stories such as that of record goal scorer Gottfried Fuchs, who scored an incredible 10 goals in an international match in 1912, but as a Jew disappeared from German soccer annals in 1939. Or that of the famous sports photo from 1966, which shows a seemingly dejected Uwe Seeler leaving Wembley Stadium - today we know: the captain bent down at that moment to adjust his socks.

These and other unique objects and the stories behind them, many of them from the German Football Museum, will leave you in awe. A gripping panorama of German soccer!

Manuel Neukirchner, born in 1967 in Essen, is director of the German Football Museum in Dortmund. With the permanent exhibition on the history of German soccer, which includes more than 1,600 exhibits and over 25 hours of film footage, the literary scholar and historian created one of the most popular and most visited adventure museums in Germany. In 2019, he initiated the Hall of Fame of German Football. Numerous book publications as editor and author.

A cooperation event together with the German Football Museum.