Description
| Product ID: | 9781785317286 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | IN |
| Title: | Turning Season, the |
| Subtitle: | Ddr-Oberliga Revisited |
| Authors: | Author: Michael Wagg |
| Page Count: | 256 |
| Subjects: | Sports teams and clubs, Sports teams & clubs, Association football (Soccer), Football (Soccer, Association football), East Germany, DDR, c 1980 to c 1990 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Michael Wagg goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga, East Germany's top flight. This quirky account of his whistle-stop tour is for fans who know that football clubs are the beating hearts of the places they play for. In The Turning Season, Michael Wagg goes in search of hidden histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga, East Germany''s top flight. From Aue in the Erzgebirge mountains to Rostock on the Baltic Sea, this quirky account of his whistle-stop tour is for fans who know that football clubs are the beating hearts of the places they play for. There are portraits of the lower levels as well as the big league, stories of then and now that celebrate the characters he met pitch-side. There''s Mr Schmidt, who''s found a magical fix for the scoreboard at Stahl Brandenburg; Karl Drossler, who captained Lokomotive Leipzig against Eusebio''s Benfica; and the heroes of Magdeburg''s European triumph, last seen dancing in white bath robes, now pulling in to a dusty car park by the River Elbe. The Turning Season turns its gaze on East German football''s magnificent peculiarity, with 14 enchanting stories from a lost league in a country that disappeared. |
| Imprint Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Publisher Name: | Pitch Publishing Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-10-12 |
