On a sunny Saturday in 2009, 55 RB Leipzig fans attended their first competitive game. It’s been a remarkable journey since then to the top
Thomas Tuchel: the thinker approaching a key juncture
“Dortmund stands for attacking football. That’s what I feel comfortable with. We will defend a lot and attack a lot. I enjoy that and the fans enjoy that,” Thomas Tuchel said at…
Zidane, Deschamps and France’s functional Euro 2000 winners
July 2, 2000; there exuberance in the stands of De Kuip, but one man’s face was stony. Players hugged each other on the pitch, but he remained motionless. It was the third…
How Berti Vogts inspired Germany to win Euro 96
MARCEL REIF, the best-known German football commentator in recent decades, published a book in 1996 in which he and other authors wrote down their impressions of the European Championship tournament that took…