Blood on the goalpost
“Action Argentina”, or when a Dutch cabaret group protested the participation of the Dutch team in the 1978 World Cup in Argentina.
Basque in the USSR
A story of a Spanish footballer turned Communist leader, where football and history intertwine across borders.
Fritz Löhner-Beda: Zionism, Football, Vienna
Cultural soul in pre-war Vienna, killed in the Holocaust.
Milutin Ivkovic: World Cup to World War
Captain of Yugoslavia, a qualified doctor, killed in a Nazi concentration camp.
Boško Petrović: From Football to Freedom?
Left the football pitch behind to fight for ideology in the sky.
Otto Fritz ‘Tull’ Harder: From German hero to Nazi war criminal
Player who commanded Hannover-Ahlem, a Nazi concentration camp.
Helmut Klopfleisch: Fan on the wrong side of the Wall
Helmut Klopfleisch was a Hertha fan but found him at the wrong side of the wall.
Ernst Kuzorra: One of “Germany’s Polish Champions”
Ernst Kuzorra was a star player for Schalke. His story is about migration, identity and education.
Asbjorn Halvorsen: Victim of Dictatorship
Asbjorn Halvorsen played for SV Hamburg and was regarded as a footballing hero in Germany. Still, he spent time in a German concentration camp.
The first Euro’s amidst Cold War tensions
On this day, 20 June 2020, France was supposed to play a Euro2020 game in the city of Budapest. The Euro2020 tournament is postponed for one year, which gives us a chance to go into the history of the European Nations Cup, which is full of remarkable stories and people. This is the story of the first tournament. It is a story about the legacy of the Cold War.
