Can you remember the 1966 World Cup Final ........ you know, the one which ended with Bobby
Moore (sadly deceased) lifting the Jules Rimet Trophy? It was on television and it was in black and
white. I guess few of our readers were born back in those far off days..
5 years earlier Tottenham last won the League.
The Ballad of Matthias Sindelar (Or How World War II Robbed Austria's Golden Generation) is a
post from: Just Football
The name Matthias Sindelar should be familiar to football aficionados everywhere as well as
historians, for that matter. But, by and large, it isn't. Chris Woolfrey elaborates on an iconic
symbol of Austrian football:
In his book Inverting the Pyramid Jonathan Wilson writes that "the modern way of
understanding and discussing the game was invented in the coffee houses of Vienna," and in the
realisation of an aesthetic of Austrian football formed by Hugo Meisl's Wunderteam and
their iconic forward Matthias Sindelar, a nation patronisingly deemed by some as
too lowly for its role as co-host of the 2008 European Championship contributed perhaps more to the
development of football than most so-called 'major' sporting nations ever have.
"Goalkeepers are not born, they are made. Every quality a keeper needs mental or physical
can be acquired through training. He must be a perfectionist; always ready to develop and better
themselves."
These are the wise words of the great Italian goalkeeper Dino Zoff a man who had achieved
virtually everything; at the tender age of 40 he captained his side to World Cup glory in
1982.
