By Simon Kuper
The nice footballers and coaches are hardly glimpsed from up shut. They protect themselves from the tabloids, disguise their personalities at the back of professionalism, and within the phrases of the cliche, 'do their speaking at the pitch'. This e-book will get up with regards to them. The soccer Menis now not a sequence of big name profiles, and it does not try and unearth secrets and techniques within the avid gamers' inner most lives. quite, it portrays those males as three-d humans. It describes their upbringings, the soccer cultures they grew up in, the best way they play, and the luggage that they convey to their relationships at paintings. This multimillion-pound, multinational global is generally inhabited by means of traditional males. The profiles during this booklet are often humorous, yet by no means breathless or sensational. the various profiles during this e-book are in response to interviews; others are the result of time the writer spent with that individual; occasionally the profile is a narrative of a rustic. All are interesting and make clear their topic to bare stuff you would not count on. From one of many nice activities writers of our time this can be a penetrating and awesome selection of articles at the figures that experience outlined the trendy carrying international.
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The legend has gone to bed, and so I leave, too. ‘Good luck on Sunday,’ I say, as if Germany needs it. Late-night German conversations no longer invariably turn to war, and Germany’s victory in the final of Euro 96 (the whole of Wembley booed when Oliver Bierhoff scored their golden goal) was the last time they won a trophy. I last saw Klopfleisch in Berlin in 2009. He was in hospital. He still enjoyed talking about football, but kept returning to his pain at seeing former Communists live happily ever after.
For years I have been doing things for the team and I do nothing for myself. I want to enjoy more, to play in my own position. ’ Are you happy in Barcelona? ‘Yes. ’ Football has become very demanding with so many games. ‘Yes. I think that is bad for a football player. If you are thirty-four or thirty-five it is a bit complicated. ’ Several magazines have already voted you their player of the year. ) ‘It’s very important for me, because of everything that has happened in my life, all the difficulties I have overcome.
That game kicked off with Gullit but without his former teammate at Holland and Milan, who had fallen asleep on the sofa at home. However, woken by a phone call, Van Basten tore to the ground, where he was immediately brought on as a substitute. Eleven seconds later he had scored. He got another later, but Gullit’s team won 6–2. Gullit also scored twice, enjoyed the game and decided to join AFC. He paid the membership fee of about £120 a year; high by Dutch standards, because this is a chic club.