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Through the life story of Heinz Hoher, player, coach, manager, scout and sports director, Ronald Reng tells the dramatic story of the rise of the Bundesliga over the last fifty years since it was founded in 1963. During that period, football has grown from a game where a club's directors, puffing on cigars, would join the players in their dressing room at half time, to today's highly paid environment, where Red Bull are trying to break into one of the most successful sporting brands in the world. From a country struggling to cope with the Nazi legacy in the 1960s, Germany has emerged as an economic and sporting powerhouse of Europe. Matchdays recreates the daily life of professional footballers from a different era, when match-fixing, doping and even guns all played their part in the training ground. Hoher himself spent two decades as a manager, once icing up the pitch at his ground to get a game cancelled, and making his living playing cards after he was sacked from the sport he loves. Already a major bestseller and award-winning book in Germany, Matchdays reveals the truth behind the rise of German football and is sure to fascinate anyone interested in understanding a nation and its rise to the top of the sporting ladder.

Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the biography of Robert Enke, the international footballer with the world at his feet who took his own life Here, award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his lost friend's life. On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. He was 32 years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. He was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs, including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona, and was destined to be his country's first choice for years to come. But beneath the bright veneer of success lay a darker story. Reng brings into sharp relief the specific demands and fears faced by those who play top-level sport. Heartfelt, but never sentimental, he tells the universal tragedy of a talented man's struggles against his own demons.

This title presents a biography of Robert Enke, the German goalkeeper who took his own life.

John Hendrie, Barnsley's ex-manager, on Lars Leese: 'Lars Leese is a shambles.

John Hendrie, Barnsley's ex-manager, criticized Lars Leese as a "shambles" and a "loser." In contrast, Dave Hill from the Guardian praised Leese's outsider perspective, highlighting its connection to the essence of the national game. At 28, German goalkeeper Lars Leese transitioned from a minor league in Cologne to Barnsley, facing a culture shock and the daunting task of playing against Liverpool at Anfield before over 45,000 fans. His unexpected journey from a computer software salesman to a Premiership goalie, though brief at three years, is a remarkable tale. Ronald Reng chronicles Leese's rapid rise and alarming fall, offering a narrative that challenges traditional football biographies and provides a unique, sometimes shocking, outsider's perspective on English life. This account captures the essence of life as a Premiership footballer, presenting an extraordinary snapshot of English behavior both in a professional football dressing room and in a Yorkshire town, as noted by Henry Winter of the Daily Telegraph.