Re: Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger article Thanks Uli. If you're as successful as me here, not a single person will stop saying Karlsruher though. But A+ for effort!
Re: Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger article Changed title to "Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger thread" since he is pretty constant with his articles.
After recommendations by Dead Fingers and Eissman, I read that book too only recently. A great effort. What chapter are you reading currently?
And hopefully with DF's and Eissman's encourage, we will get "The complete statistical history of Deustchland Fussball" by Gregoriak from BS!!!
Thanks DF! Great stuff... I just love this guys prose. His style if witty, honest, empathetic, and forthright. Each column is its own "book" of sorts. I would love to have a collection someday. This thread just may be it! Prost!
I personally thought that there were some parts of his book that really underrated the german team and gave a wrong picture to anyone reading it (especially the 1970 qf!!! and to an extent the 1974 final match). In discussion with gregoriak, he agreed. I haven't read the whole book yet but that's what I saw in the certain parts that I read.
What do you mean underrate? I thought he was pretty glowing and pretty fair to those teams, especially the 72 team (rightfully so). Even calls the 70 semifinal against Italy as rather shameful, where the Germans were screwed. 74, he gives the Dutch their deserved credit. And goes into the behind the scenes soap opera which was happening with the German team. Not sure what you were looking for?
Uli's book is not really leant towards providing us stories and info on the teams as much as on the history of german football and off-field matters as a whole I reckon. Even though I've not read it all; from the little bits I've read here and there and from his introduction (which i read fully), I can gather that. He could have talked more about the 1972 team I reckon. What I meant about 70 and 74 were about the actual matches in concern. The QF and the final. Not the most accurate descriptions. I wasn't talking about the other info on those tournaments and of course the dutch were more impressive than us before the final in 1974.
It sounds like you wanted more "behind the scenes", more player information, and more info on each of the games? Hell, I would imagine he could write a book just on the NT from 70-74. You should email him from the article link. He does read them.
Uli Hesse-Lichtenberger Why have Uli's articles at Soccernet.com been so infrequent this season? In the past, he wrote an article every 2 weeks. Now, he does not even average 1 per month. On a similar topic, I am also upset that Foxsoccer.com no longer employs Oliver Hinz. That's one less journalist covering German soccer in English on the net(leaving only Uli, to my knowledge). Very sad set of circumstances, IMO.
german football is about strength, running in straight lines and courage not very attractive. espn decided to show the deutsche pokal semi finals, and how do they advertise it? "speed strength and courage of german soccer". pfft
Glad I found this thread. read "Tor" back in march before the trip to Germany. Ulli changed my feelings on Bayern, and I don't hold it against him.
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Good article. I had never realized the Bochum-Schalke derby was so passionate. It was funny to hear that when Stuttgart went up 3-2, Bochum fans sang "You'll never win the league"...at Schalke
It's hard to understand the "Ruhrpott". I've heard recently, that Schalke fans hate Essen even more than Dortmund. Whatever, Uli is right. It's always great when there is passion in the derby between "Herne-West" and "Lüdenscheid-Nord"