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A story full of curiosities: the 16-0 victory of the Germans against the Russian national football team at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm. The story is told from the perspective of national goalkeeper Adolf “Asch” Werner, a chimney sweeper who was not entirely free from giddiness and who was one of a group of very young footballers who then became German champions with Holstein Kiel.
There were immediately a lot of rumors surrounding this game: the Russian team had been drinking bottles of vodka the evening before, the Germans had put drugs in their food, etc. It was a fact and a sign of sporting fairness at the time that the German team after the 16th goal Scoring stopped because the Russian goalkeeper Lev Ivanovich Faworski was spotted crying between the posts.
20 x 13 cms, softback, 80 pages.
2023
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