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Loyalty card: Uwe Seeler’s modesty and skills were a model for West German society

Uwe Seeler captains West Germany in the 1966 World Cup final. Offside

The countless goals scored for both Hamburg and Germany by “Our Uwe”, who died in July, were matched by off-field charm as he became a national institution

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Home And Away: Writing the beautiful game by Karl Ove Knausgaard and Fredrik Ekelund

363 HomeAway

Harvill & Secker, £18.99
Reviewed by Richard Mason
From WSC 363, May 2017
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From the archive: The cynicism and incompetence of the 1986 World Cup

FIFA president Gianni Infantino has recently unveiled plans to increased the World Cup from 40 to 48 teams. Back in 1986, in WSC 3, even 24 was deemed too many

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Border control

wsc299 Paul Joyce studies how the Berlin Wall divided the city arbitrarily and changed the lives of clubs, players and fans

Although post-war Germany was divided into two states in 1949, football clubs on both sides of the border were determined to maintain sporting relations. Despite political tensions between capitalist West Germany (FRG) and the socialist East (GDR), numerous cross-border friendlies took place on public holidays in the early 1950s. These proved massively popular with supporters on both sides of the divide. In October 1956, 110,000 East German fans filled the new Leipzig Zentralstadion to watch 1.FC Kaiserslautern, whose team contained five players from West Germany’s 1954 World Cup-winning side, beat SC Wismut Karl-Marx-Stadt 5-3.

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