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ISSUE 49, 26 SEPTEMBER 2014 ENGLISH EDITION
Fédération Internationale de Football Association – Since 1904
ARGENTINA LA MAQUINA RUNNING
IN HIGH GEAR
MALMO ARE BACK
SEPP BL AT TER COMMON SOLUTIONS
TO GLOBAL PROBLEMS
CHRISTOPH DAUM YOU’VE GOT TO BE ABLE TO LISTEN
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6 A breakthrough in sky blue Malmo FF’s surprise return to the Champions League was the result of good youth development and a meticulous transfer policy. Svend Frandsen visited the southern Swedish club and explains Malmo’s immigrant effect on page 12.
18 Czech Republic Recent developments in the Synot Liga have provided cause for optimism, with eight of the league’s 16 clubs challenging for the title and excitement guaranteed every weekend.
23 Sepp Blatter 70 days after the World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro, the global footballing community came together in Zurich. “The regular dialogue between the associations delivers the foundation for our development programmes,” the FIFA President says in his weekly column.
37 Herbert Prohaska The Austrian was not supposed to play in his country’s decisive World Cup qualifier against Turkey in 1977. But when compatriot Josef Hickersberger had to undergo an appendix operation, Prohaska stepped up to secure Austria’s first World Cup place in 20 years.
19 River Plate The team from Buenos Aires are currently playing with merciless precision.
24 Prison football Once a year, an intriguing tournament takes place behind the walls of the prison in Joao Pessoa, Brazil.
Malmo are backOur cover image was taken on 21 September 2014 and shows a young Malmo fan during his team’s home game against Helsingborg.
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12 Zlatan Ibrahimovic His impressive career gives hope to children from impoverished backgrounds in Malmo.
15 Christoph Daum The great motivator discusses modern coaching, emotions in football and paying attention to detail.
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A league match at Swedbank Stadium Malmo FF are also keen to establish themselves in Europe.
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Last November, Sweden’s national team were forced to admit defeat against Portugal in their 2014 World Cup qualifying play-off. To put it another way, Zlatan Ibrahimovic could do little but watch as Cristiano Ronaldo worked
his magic, practically defeating the Swedes singlehandedly in their own coun-try. Although Ibrahimovic scored twice, Ronaldo went one better to consign the hosts to a 3-2 loss. Nevertheless, the Malmo-born striker has every reason to be cheerful when it comes to domestic football. His first club and 1979 UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup finalists Malmo FF are reinvigorated and representing Sweden in the UEFA Champions League this season. Svend Frandsen paid a visit to the southern reaches of this Scandinavian country to experience some of the revival for himself, the story of which starts on page 6.
At the Geraldo Beltrao maximum-security prison in Joao Pessoa, capital of the Brazilian state of Paraiba, the inmates spend a week taking part in a football tournament. Each cell can form a five-a-side team and the winning
team receive extra rations of rice, beans and other provisions, and a chance to compete against their guards. Our photo reportage begins on page 24.
In his weekly column, FIFA President Blatter discusses the Committee Week held recently at the Home of FIFA. As well as the 27 members of the Executive Committee, 251 delegates from 132 countries were welcomed to Zurich. “All of
them had the right to voice their opinions, and everyone received a hearing. The most important insight also shows us the path we must follow: we can only solve global problems by working together,” the FIFA President explains. Å
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Swedbank Stadium The league leaders prepare to face Helsingborg on 21 September 2014, ultimately drawing 1-1.
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Historic club Malmo FF are back in the Champions League. The success of the Himmelsblått is the result of a long-term strategy. The FIFA Weekly paid a visit to find out more.
Svend Frandsen, Malmo (text), Mikkel Ostergaard (images)
After they receive their final words of instruction from coach Age Hareide and get pumped up before the start of a match, the Mamo players make their way towards the tunnel where they are met by a large two-sided door carrying the image of a mass of blue-and-white colour-ed flags from the 1979 European Cup Final (now the UEFA Champions League) when Malmo faced Notting-ham Forest in Munich. Then, when the doors open, the team come face-to-face with an inscription on a beam located just above a set of stairs right in front of the pitch. The inscription reads: “Vi står som en för klubben alla, vi segra skall men inte
falla,” (“We stand as one for the club, we shall win and not fall”). Often, the players will reach up and touch the inscription, just as Liverpool do with the “This is Anfield” sign before running out on to the pitch. The image on the door and the inscription on the beam are testimony to a club with a clear vision, a legacy and a long-lasting tradition which is not only history but is also used to continuously develop the club on all levels.
Uneven oddsMalmo reached the European Cup Final with a team consisting exclusively of homegrown players. Such a scenario would be unheard of today. The large financial resources of top clubs, the Bosman ruling and the free movement of workers within the EU have created a melting pot of footballers from a wide range of nations within a large number of football sides worldwide. However, despite the uneven odds, Malmo have remained faithful to their ideology of establishing a first team largely based on homegrown players.
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This is still very much part of the club’s ideology today. Malmo’s current Champions League squad holds no fewer than ten players (Markus Rosenberg, Agon Mehmeti, Amin Nazari, Filip Helander, Simon Kroon, Pa Konate, Petar Petrovic, Sixten Mohlin and Pawel Cibicki) raised by the club themselves. In addition, Malmo’s qualification for the group stage means the club’s newest crop of youngsters will now get the chance to show off their potential in the UEFA Youth League – which in turn will enhance the possibilities of more in-built success in the future.
Today there are a large number of factors why Malmo have been so successful in grooming their own players. The development goes back to 1999, a milestone in the club’s history. At that time the team was relegat-ed into the second Swedish tier, an event that served as a wake-up call for the club, the city and the region, who vowed never to allow it to happen again. Consequently, the plans for a new financial structure to rejuvenate the club were laid down. At the same time, Staffan Tapper, captain of their famous 1979 team, along with chairman Hasse Borg took the first steps towards building a fine network with all the other clubs in the region. This was done to establish a system where Malmo could profit from all the talent-building in the region and offer the most tal-ented young footballers within the community free education and a chance to test their abilities at the highest level.
Isolation proves an advantageMats Engqvist, head of the Malmo youth academy admits that the south-ern Swedish club enjoys a bit of luxury in being able to pick the best tal-ents for their academy through its geographical isolation compared to other clubs. “We are a bit isolated because there are really no big other clubs in the area,” says Enqvist. “We are the only big club in an area of around 500,000 inhabitants, so if youngsters from this region have a dream of playing in the Allsvenskan or in Europe, they have to come to us. In Stockholm or Gothenburg they compete for players all the time but we don´t have that problem. We can just say ”you, you and you – you play for us. At the same time it probably also means that the players we enrol do everything to live up to our standards because they know there is no alternative. So, really with that back-ground, we should be good,” he adds.
Pupils enrolled at the academy immediately have a tough task because they have to show their potential against older players. This is part of the academy ideology in order to develop players. “In Swe-den we are allowed to play against sides that are one year older,” explains Enqvist. “Our 13 year-old group never wins the champion-ship because we are playing against 14 year-olds, but at the end of the day we think it’s the right way to go about it as it develops the players a lot to play against sides who are one year older,” he says.
In the autumn of 2013, Malmo FF won the Swedish title for the 13th time, but in the months to follow about half the team left the club. For-mer captain Daniel Andersson took over as new sports director and after coach Rikard Norling decided to step down, he was replaced by the for-mer Norwegian international defender Age Hareide. The club has conse-quently undergone a virtual revolution in the past year in its quest to put out a side good enough to qualify for the UEFA Champions League.
Players like Pontus Jansson and Miko Albornoz said goodbye to the club, but in his new role as sports director Andersson immediate-ly proved he maintains good relations with former players by prompt-ing Guillermo Molins, Agon Mehmeti and none other than Markus Rosenberg to return to the club. At the same time Hareide did not waste any time in putting his footprint on club proceedings by chang-ing Roland Nilssons and Rikard Norlings’ Spanish-inspired posses-sion-based football into a more direct approach.
Adapting to modern football“I wanted us to adapt to the way modern football is played today. You need to put pressure on your opponents, and then break very quickly when you get the ball. And then when you lose it, you’ve got to get organized very quickly again. This is the way you’ve got to play because most teams in Europe today are well-organized and difficult to break down. In Sweden it might work to hold the ball for long periods of time but if we play like that in Europe we are going to get punished because if you play in a central position and you lose the ball then you are dead and that is why we want to play in between and behind a lot,” says Hareide about the new tactical approach he has taught his players with great success over the past year.
Indeed the tactical changes were implemented so successfully that Malmo were able to overcome Ventspils, Sparta Prague and Red Bull Salzburg in the qualifying matches for the Champions League. That is an accomplishment no other Swedish club had been able to pull off for 14 years since the southern Swedish neighbours of Malmo, Helsingborgs IF, last qualified for the prestigious tournament at the expense of
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Inter Milan in 2001. But unless Malmo succeed in qualifying for the tour-nament two or three times in a row, they will not manage to make it to the next level, according to Malmo’s prolific striker Markus Rosenberg.
“The problem for Scandinavian sides when they reach the Champions League is to uphold their challenge on the domestic front because they don t yet have the funds to invest in a larger squad,” says Rosenberg. “And that is necessary because of the extra physical and mental pressure on the players due to the compressed schedule of games. That is why it is so crucial to reach the Champions League in successive seasons,” adds the striker, who has made a huge impact on the side since rejoining the club from West Brom-wich Albion having made a name for himself at Ajax and Werder Bremen.
Reaching a milestoneReaching the Champions League of course represents a milestone in club history for Malmo but the management is aware of the dangers ahead as many clubs have struggled to invest the extra funds wisely and deal with the additional responsibilities of becoming a Champions League club. So while it was a huge mental and physical barrier to overcome for the players to break into Europe’s finest club tournament, the pressure is now on the club management to deliver the goods in terms of making the right financial decisions to lay down the path for Malmo to remain at the highest European club level in the years to come. And that is of course best achieved by making the club independ-ent of the funds earned through the Champions League, underlines managing director Niclas Carlnén.
“Our goal is to get a turnover that is in balance without the funds of the Champions League, so we see it as an extraordinary income that we can use to develop the organisation,” explains Carlnén. “For instance we can invest in a cover for the football field so that we can save money on heating up the pitch. So we try to find investments in
the stadium but also in the organisation. We want to develop the youth academy further and perhaps we can keep our best players for a longer time and when they leave the club perhaps their market value will have gone up.”
Today the club has been able to make the past work for the future by allowing former greats to occupy key positions at the club while forging a close relationship with the city of Malmo. This strategy has not only created a unique bond between spectators and the club but also opened new ways of finding sponsors. In 2009, the new Swedbank Stadion replaced the club’s old stadium (which hosted matches at the FIFA World Cup finals in 1958). The move has created a more intense atmosphere at games as the new arena has no running track and enables a greater level of service for sponsors. It was here that Malmo came to the attention of the whole football world by staging sensa-tional comebacks against Sparta Praha and Red Bull Salzburg. Sure-ly this is just the beginning for a club with such an enormous fan base, a finely tuned organisational structure, a well- developed youth department and a squad with the potential to put Scandinavian club football solidly back on the world map. Å Plenty of support Malmo’s locals get behind their club.
The club managed to use its past to build a successful future.
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The immigrant effect
Its impossible to think of Zlatan Ibrahimovic without Malmo coming to mind. The famous Swedish Paris Saint-Germain striker grew up in the city’s less-than-affluent neighbour-hood of Rosengard and went on to make it on the world stage partly thanks to the foot-
ball education he got inside Malmo’s youth academy. As such he has given hope to a huge number of second- and third-generation immi-
grant children living within troubled neighbour-hoods in Malmo to use football to get out of poverty and at the same time get an education and build a life for themselves. Zlatan’s impor-
tance cannot be underestimated, says Mats Engqvist, head of the MFF youth department.“As for Zlatan he might be even bigger than
what I understand,” says Engqvist. “In Rosen-gard where he grew up he is huge but also among the Swedish players he is big. He rep-resents something which they all think they can reach. You might think that it was only the second and third generation immigrants who talk about him but it is really everybody, also the Swedish boys.”
At a time when the integration of immigrants is playing such a huge role in Scandinavian coun-tries, the Malmo FF youth department is leading by example. The club is often contacted by report-ers or people working within social administra-tions to explain what their secret is to create op-timistic future perspectives for all immigrants of
different cultural backgrounds. And the answer is quite simple.
“We don t do anything special. Fifty per-cent of the pupils in our schools are second- or third-generation immigrants. If you are born in
a troubled neighbourhood in Malmo, we can offer you a good football education and a good schooling education. So we really give them the chance and I get the feeling that they really want the chance. It’s great that within a small group of players we can have a lot of cultures mixed together, so you can hear questions like “What do you eat in Turkey?” or “So you really speak Slovenian?” So a lot of cultures come to-gether under the Malmo roof”, ends Engqvist.
M a l m o F F Facts & Figures
Established: 1910 Stadium: Swedbank Stadion (Capacity: 24.000) Coach: Åge Hareide Chairman: Håkan Jeppsson Nickname: Di Blåe (The Blues), Himmelsblått (The Sky Blues) Allsvenskan League titles: 17 (2013) Swedish Cups: 14 (1989)
Famous son Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 1999 before his dramatic rise to global fame.
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Team spirit Agon Mehmeti (no. 21) and Markus Rosenberg (9) in the lead.
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Successful German coach and gifted motivator Christoph Daum seeks to help players understand themselves.
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You became a Bundesliga head coach at Cologne in your early 30s. What are your memories of 1986?
Christoph Daum: Back then, opting to hire such a young coach who had never been a professional player was almost revolutionary, but it was initially planned as an interim solution rather than a long-term appoint-ment. Names such as Pal Czernai or Kalli Feldkamp were mentioned at the time; they should really have taken over but weren’t available at short notice.
So to some extent you were filling in.I was meant to do the job until Christmas,
but I made such good use of that interim period that it became a longer-term arrange-ment.
In doing so, you broke new ground and are considered to have pioneered a new way of coaching. What do you make of coaching in Germany today?
Football changes just as rapidly as other areas of life. When you consider the way in which injured players were operated on with something similar to a kitchen knife 25 years ago and compare that with the micro-invasive techniques used today, it’s clear that a huge amount has changed. Back then we still sent slow faxes, whereas today information can be exchanged across the globe within seconds.
Everything has got faster, including football.The game is quicker, and the physical and
conditioning demands are immense nowa-days. Of course, as the world gets smaller, technical skills have to increase. Football will always continue to develop when it comes to coaching methods, match analysis and the way players are looked after. Science puts so many things at our disposal these days that I sometimes feel we’re overloaded with infor-mation. You’ve got to carefully select the elements that are most suitable, provide real benefits and help individuals to develop.
Given all this, what new roles do coaches now have to fulfil in order to successfully steer a team?
Despite all the science, expertise and practicality, football is and will always be a game of emotions. A well-educated coach must be aware of and be in control of as many of these areas as possible, even though it is always good to consult experts. One of the most important components of leader-ship is also emotional intelligence. As a coach, you’ve got to oversee a group of 24 or 25 individual ‘entrepreneurs’, each with annual salaries running into the millions. The aim is to form a kind of ‘parent company’ with a common denominator that creates an identity. This identity must rub off on the
Sporting the sponsor’s colours Bayer coach Christoph Daum on 12 August 2000.
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NameChristoph DaumDate and place of birth24 October 1953, Oelsnitz/ErzgebirgeClubs coached (selection)1981-1985 1. FC Köln amateurs 1985-1986 1. FC Köln (assistant coach) 1986-1990, 2006-2009 1. FC Köln 1990-1993 VfB Stuttgart 1994-1996, 2001-2002 Besiktas 1996-2000 Bayer Leverkusen 2002-2003 Austria Wien 2003-2006, 2009-2010 Fenerbahce 2011 Eintracht Frankfurt 2011-2012 Club Brugge 2013-2014 Bursaspor Championship titles won1992 VfB Stuttgart 1995 Besiktas 2003 Austria Wien 2004, 2005 Fenerbahce
entire team and beyond to the board and the club as a whole. That’s why a coach’s respon-sibilities now stretch far beyond what they were 25 years ago.
You’re regarded as a great motivator with some unorthodox methods, such as letting your team walk over burning coals. How has the concept of motivation changed over the years?
Not much at all for me, really. Motivation is simply effective communication. For a start, that means I have to be able to listen to what drives my players: their ambitions, their dreams and any barriers or blockades that may lie in their path. Then, together with a mental coach, I can use my knowledge to discuss these things with the players and work out where they can find the greatest motivation. The goal must always be to help players to help themselves. They have to understand everything themselves, train with total commitment and stay motivated even when they don’t make the starting line-up or the matchday squad for the next game.
The same is true during periods of success.Players need to stay highly motivated
and make sure they don’t rest on their laurels even when they’re in great form. There are so many ways to support a player and ensure he is in the best possible mental and emotional shape so that he feels happy and satisfied enough to do everything in his power to be as successful as he can.
Are players patient?It’s important for young players to learn
the importance of delayed gratification. They want to satisfy their needs straight away by playing matches and showing what they can do as early as possible, but they’ve got learn to wait for that particular Christmas present. (laughs)
Although the process begins with individual players, what is the key to moulding these players into a team?
Long-term development is just as impor-tant as team-building measures. Any team event, such as solving a common problem at
Walkabout Fenerbahce coach Christoph Daum celebrates championship glory on 10 May 2004.
“Despite all the science, exper tise and practicality, football is and will
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survival camp or at climbing camp, is followed by a large number of meetings and talks to discuss aspects of the team’s performance. Long-term development is vital here; you’ve got to review everything and ask the player what he has actually taken away from it all. If I listen, he can explain things to me and then I know he has understood it.
That takes attention to detail.Every coach works on fine details. They
carve out the best possible role for a player within his club and particular environment by using his existing individual strengths to enable him to contribute as effectively as possible to the team. There’s nothing new about that particular task; it’s still the same as ever.
Talking of delayed gratification, what ambi-tions are you still striving to achieve?
I would be very happy to work in the Premier League. I was in England recently and was able to do a little networking, but it’s very difficult to get into football there. That said, I would also very much like to manage internationally after 30 years in club football. I recently turned down the opportunity to coach Nigeria’s national team, but I’m sure something else will come up soon enough. Å
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There are indeed signs that national interest in football, the country’s second most popular sport after ice hockey, is growing once more. Attendance figures in the Czech first division have been rising steadily, if not spectacularly, since the 2010/11 season. Record titleholders Sparta boast the highest average attendance in the league (11,340), followed by rivals Viktoria Plzen (10,090). However, the average attendance across the whole of the first division was a mere 5,086 last term. In June this year Czech Republic-based lottery and betting provider Synot replaced Gambrinus, a beer brand that had held the naming rights to the top flight for 17 years, as the league’s main sponsor. Synot’s contributions, though dwarfed by the astronomical sums being spent in Europe’s major leagues, are certainly not to be sniffed at when put into context.
Since the division of Czechoslovakia in 1993, the Czech first division has been made up of
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Hope springs eternalRoland Zorn is a football expert who lives in Frankfurt am Main.
Czech Republic’s 2-1 victory over the Netherlands in their opening UEFA EURO 2016
qualifier sent shock waves around Europe. The last-gasp success on 9 September clearly took Czech supporters by surprise too, given the fact that Sparta Prague’s 21,000-capaci-ty stadium was not even sold out for the clash against the 2014 World Cup bronze medalists. Rather than hail the win as the turning point in Czech football, which has fallen far behind its competitors in recent years, experts view the narrow victory as the first tentative step on the long road to recovery.
just 16 clubs. Sparta have won four times as many titles (12) as their closest challengers Slavia Prague and Slovan Liberec, who have both been crowned champions on three occasions. Viktoria have enjoyed some success in recent years, winning two championships and taking part in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League in 2011/12. Overall though, Czech Republic’s contribution to Europe’s top table has been minimal. Sparta, who won their first league title in four years last season, are the country’s only representa-tives in European competition this campaign, but lost their opening UEFA Europa League game 3-1 to Napoli.
Given its lack of financial clout, stars and glamour, the league’s bid to enhance its standing remains onerous. Infrastructure damage, poor marketing, corruption scandals and outbreaks of violence inside stadiums have done little to help the cause.
However, more recent developments have provided some cause for cautious optimism. Though Sparta and Viktoria remain over-whelming favourites for the title this season, the start to the campaign has thrown up more than the odd surprise. With just four points separating first-place Plzen and Dukla Prague in eleventh, there has been no shortage of excitement so far, despite the dearth of up-and-coming talent in a country that has produced the likes of Petr Cech, Pavel Nedved, Tomas Rosicky and Karel Poborsky in recent times.
That does not mean things can’t change for the better, though. Perhaps the 2-1 victory over the Netherlands was a sign of things to come. Å
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Free-flowing RiverSven Goldmann is a football correspondent at “Tagesspiegel” newspaper in Berlin.
At present there seems to be no stopping ‘The Machine’,
as Club Atletico River Plate are known, even if they are of course not as spectacular as the side of the early 1940s. Back then, they arguably had the best team in the world, led by Adolfo Pedernera and Angel Labruna, who are still revered by the River faithful to this day.
Fast forward 70 years and fans in Buenos Aires frequently mention that golden era in the same breath as the present side, as River are playing with a merciless precision the Estadio Monumental has not witnessed in many a year. In the seventh round of matches of the Primera Division’s Torneo Transicion, River recorded their sixth successive victory with a 4-1 triumph over Atletico Independi-ente. River have already scored 19 goals and only conceded three this season; they are a true footballing machine.
The match against Independiente was sup-posed to be a top-of-the-table encounter, as the promoted side from Avellaneda went into the game away to River just a point behind their hosts after winning their four previous fixtures. Yet what transpired was a demon-stration of River’s elegant attacking football. Leonardo Pisculichi and Ariel Rojas fired the home side into a first-half lead, only for Federico Mancuello to reduce the deficit on the hour mark. However, any hopes that may have given Independiente were dashed short-ly afterwards when Colombian striker Teofilo Gutierrez hit his seventh of the season to make it 3-1 and go top of the domestic goalscoring chart. Uruguay’s Rodrigo Mora added a fourth later on.
The upturn in River’s form is largely down to coach Marcelo Gallardo, who was initially only appointed as a stop-gap solution after club legend Ramon Diaz surprisingly stepped down in the spring following the Millonarios’ 36th league title celebrations. Diaz won the championship with River as a player and did so later five times as coach, as well as secur-ing the Copa Libertadores and Supercopa Sudamericana trophies. In the wake of the
team’s victory in the Torneo Final, just three years after the embarrassment of the club’s maiden relegation, Diaz unexpectedly resigned in May.
River’s technical director Enzo Francescoli, likewise an icon in Belgrano, the Buenos Aires district the club call home, reacted quickly and named Gallardo as Diaz’s successor. The new man in charge has long been part of the River family, having come up through their youth ranks and made his Primera Division debut as a 17-year-old. His first role as coach led him to Montevideo, where he immediately won the Uruguayan champion-ship with Nacional. Now 38, he still seems as youthful as he was when he pulled the strings in midfield for River and the Argentinian national team. That has helped his side to play with even greater maturity. “You can
recognise a player is intelligent if he imple-ments his coach’s ideas quickly,” Gallardo said. “And I have a very intelligent team!” That is precisely why River’s new football machine is so well-oiled at present. Å
Coach Marcelo Gallardo No longer a mere stop-gap solution at River Plate.
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Years of phenomenal growthFIFA decided to stage the first FIFA Women’s World Cup™ in 1991 (China PR) to give the best female players in world football the opportunity to play on a world stage, thus marking a milestone for the growth of women’s football all around the globe. Around half a million spectators attended the matches. Since then, the women’s game has taken huge strides forward in every aspect, whether in terms of the players’ technique, physical fitness and tactics, or the media coverage, TV viewers and sponsorship interest.
One of the pillars of FIFA’s mission is to touch the world through our tourna-ments. We take great pride in staging these entertaining and unique festivals of football across the globe.The FIFA Women’s World Cup™ is a shining example of our commitment to ensuring that women’s football goes from strength to strength in the future.
The setting-up of two new development pro-grammes to promote participation in the FIFA U-17 World Cup qualifiers and to de-
velop domestic youth competitions respec-tively, and the approval of the first-ever ‘Goal’ projects for the USA, Italy and Sweden were among the main outcomes of the FIFA Devel-opment Committee meeting held 23 Septem-ber 2014 under the chairmanship of Issa Hayatou at the Home of FIFA.
Promoting young talentThe new initiative aimed at U-17 male and fe-male teams will enable member associations that fulfil specific criteria to receive FIFA’s financial support for the organisational ex-penses of home matches as well as for the travel costs of away games in order to increase participation in FIFA youth competitions.
In the area of domestic youth tourna-ments, FIFA’s objective will be to help member associations to increase the number of youth competitions in different age groups by means of specific education programmes, teaching material and equipment. Member associations will be requested to provide a four-year development plan under the guid-ance of a technical director to be entitled to
receive FIFA’s support. “Both programmes are very much in line with FIFA’s intention to support male and female youth football com-petitions during the upcoming financial cycle in order to increase participation opportuni-ties and subsequently quality,” commented Hayatou.
32 ‘Goal’ projects were approved by FIFA’s Development Committee. Among the new in-itiatives are the building of headquarters for the Congolese Football Federation, the up-grade of the technical centre in Papua New Guinea, the support to the national football academy in India ahead of the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup and the construction of a football pitch in Bhutan’s district of Tsirang.
Increased budgetThe 2015-2018 period will see the current de-velopment budget of USD 800 million increase by USD 100 million, with a further improve-ment of the financial governance of FIFA de-velopment funds, an increase of Goal alloca-tions (by 50% since 2010 – from USD 400,000 to 600,000), the doubling of women’s football development funds, and a fivefold enlarge-ment of the capacity to provide football equip-ment as some of the main priorities. Å
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32 ‘Goal’ projects were approved by FIFA’s
Development Commit tee.
FIFA to implement two new development
programmes
Exactly 70 days after the World Cup Final in Rio de Janeiro the global footballing com-munity came together this week in Zurich
for the FIFA Committee Days. There was no cup to be won and no awards either, but the strate-gic importance of the quarterly get-together is almost on a par with the global showdown. The regular dialogue between the associations, and the discussions about everyday problems in technical, logistical, medical, infrastructural, legal and sporting areas form a direct link to the grassroots of our sport and deliver the foundation for our development and aid programmes such as “Football for Health”, “11 for Health” or “Football for Hope”.
In regions where the people lack even the basic necessities, football can act as an impor-tant foothold, especially for boys: the game supplies the role models they may be lacking elsewhere. It is no coincidence that football is still being played even in these difficult times in crisis-hit countries such as Syria, Lebanon and Ukraine.
The magnificent World Cup in Brazil serves, in a manner of speaking, as FIFA’s beacon. It is vital that the national associations take up the message it sends out. The 13 committees meet-ing at Home of FIFA held constructive and solu-tion-oriented talks, and formulated proposals for the attention of the next Congress. Along with the 27 members of the Executive Commit-tee we were pleased to welcome 251 delegates from 132 countries. All of them had the right to voice their opinions, and every one received a hearing. The most important insight also shows us the path we must follow: we can only solve global problems by working together, in foot-ball, but also in social and community matters.
251 delegates from 132 countries
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Goals in gaol
P R I S O N F O O T B A L L
Cell 13 Winners of the 2013 tournament.
GBP INMATES
Team name: Geraldo Beltrao Penitentiary Cell 13Formed: 2013Town: Joao Pessoa, BrazilLeague: Geraldo Beltrao CupCoach: Pedro NascimentoHonours: Geraldo Beltrao Cup winners (2013)
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The inmates at Brazilian maximum security prison Geraldo Beltrao contest an annual tournament. The winners then get to play the warders.
The guards at play Unarmed on the sand.
P R I S O N F O O T B A L L
GBP GUARDS
Team name: Geraldo Beltrao Penitentiary WardersFormed: 2013Town: Joao Pessoa, BrasilienLeague: Geraldo Beltrao CupCoach: NoneHonours: None
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In the kitchen Training until the food’s done.
P R I S O N F O O T B A L L
Prolonged battle The tournament lasts for a week.
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Players warm up among mattresses and clothes hanging on lines, but the second they step outside, they’re stopped at a metal door and frisked by armed guards. After passing through another metal door, they arrive on the pitch.Any slip over the sidelines here is dangerous: the area is encircled by barbed wire. “We need to be calm, patient,”
says one. “It’s our hot heads that got us into this place.” Outsid-ers are barred from the match.
Once it ends, the players file back inside, saluted by hands that stretch into the corridor through steel bars. Their cell doors lock and screams of celebration echo through the prison.
Since 2012, this football tournament has been played every year inside Geraldo Beltrao, a maximum-security prison in Joao Pessoa, capital of Paraiba, Brazil. Each cell may form one team of five prisoners. After a week of continuous matches, each player on the winning team receives his prize: a box of food containing rice, beans and other goods, usually later sent to his family. The winning team also gets to play against the
prison guards. This is a special match in which daily tensions sometimes creep onto the pitch. “Bring a bag to carry all the goals home,” one inmate teases, and then quickly apologises. Once the match is over, only one team will be armed. This year’s winners were Cell 15. Å
Each player on the winning team receives a box containing rice, beans and other goods.
The 2014 winners This year’s tournament was won by Cell 15.
The full article first appeared on 16 May 2014 in Colors Magazine (Italy). Colorsmagazine.com
Luiz Romero (text) and Nicolo Lanfranchi (photos), Joao Pessoa, Brazil
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It was 29 June 2014 and my son had reached the regional cup final with his lower-league youth side. In the first half the match was an attractive affair with some eye-catching team moves and fierce tackling. After one such challenge the referee showed my son a yellow card for foul play, a fair decision. Not long after the break his side went 1-0 up and a surprise victory appeared to be on the cards. With the wind in their sails, the
team kept pushing forward and a few minutes later even managed to score again, sparking loud cheers from the travelling support and unbridled joy in the scorer, who celebrated next to the corner flag. Overcome with emotion, my son kicked the flag and was shown a second yellow card for excessive goal celebration. The opposition took full advantage of the sense of shock that descended on his side and, after levelling the score at 2-2, went on to win the final on penalties. Plagued by guilt, my son was in tears, and we returned home downhearted to watch the World Cup Round of 16 tie between the Netherlands and Mexico. Shortly before the final whistle Klaas-Jan Huntelaar netted a match-winning penalty to make it 2-1, and subsequently sprinted to the corner of the pitch where he kung-fu kicked the flag. He was not booked for doing so: the decision falls under the discretionary powers of referees. That is also something we must simply accept. Å
Richie Kroenert
There are moments in football when even the greatest sport of all fades into insignificance. Jonas Gutierrez from Premier League club Newcastle United shocked the club’s fans when he
revealed in an interview he is being treated for testicular cancer. The former Argentina international also said he had been under-going treatment in his home country for a while, but kept his condition a secret for months. “This is the toughest match of my life,” the 31-year-old said.
The Magpies’ first home match following Gutierrez´ shock news was an emotional occasion. Papiss Cisse struck a brace to secure a point in a 2-2 draw with Hull City and dedicated both goals to his stricken team-mate. The Senegalese striker revealed a message of encouragement on a vest under his shirt, reading “Always looking forward Jonas”. Cisse has hardly had an easy time of it himself recently as he spent months on the sidelines with a fractured patella. However, Cisse’s stirring comeback provided a mere footnote on the day, in line with one of Gutierrez’ state-ments: “When you’re battling cancer, every other problem becomes unimportant.” Å
Tim Pfeifer
The way a story is told often causes more of a stir than the story itself. It provides the listener with food for thought and can be a liberating experience for the storyteller. Reports recently surfaced
in British newspapers claiming that Fulham’s recently released man-ager Felix Magath ordered a player to spend an afternoon with cheese pressed to his knee to help him recover from an injury. The anecdote came directly from several of the Cottagers’ players after the 61-year-old German had been dismissed from his post, otherwise their pun-ishment would have been even tougher training sessions than usual. Alternatively, perhaps Magath would have brought his own Emmental compress to the training ground after seeing such reports in the news-paper. According to his former charges, the former Schalke boss dis-liked lighthearted banter after defeats and trained the players almost to the point of collapse. Since his departure, life at Craven Cottage has begun to return to normal. Last Tuesday Fulham won at last, defeating lower-league opponents Doncaster Rovers in the League Cup without needing to call upon Magath or his cheesy prescriptions. The team and their caretaker manager Kit Symons didn’t put a foot wrong – according to several observers’ version of events, at least. Å
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F R E E K I C K F I F A’ S 11
Highest-scoring Golden Boot winners
10 goals Gerd Muller West Germany Mexico 1970
8 goals Ronaldo Brazil Korea / Japan 2002
7 goals Grzegorz Lato Poland West Germany 1974
6 goals Mario Kempes Argentina Argentina 1978
6 goals Paolo Rossi Italy Spain 1982
6 goals Gary Lineker England Mexico 1986
6 goals Salvatore Schillaci Italy Italy 1990
6 goals Oleg Salenko Russia USA 1994
6 goals Hristo Stoichkov Bulgaria USA 1994
6 goals Davor Suker Croatia France 1998
6 goals James Rodriguez Colombia Brazil 2014
The Golden Boot is awarded to the World Cup’s highest goalscorer.
Source: FIFA(FIFA World Cup, Milestones & Superlatives, Statistical Kit, 23/09/2014)
After a lengthy absence, the most distinctive smile in world football was finally visible once again as Ronaldinho led his new club,
Mexican first division outfit FC Queretaro, to a 4-1 victory away to Chivas Guadalajara by scor-ing a penalty and providing an assist. For the two-time World Player of the Year it not only represented his first goal on his league debut for Los Gallos Blancos (the White Roosters), but more importantly it marked a return to his ef-fortless playing style of old.
Following an initially successful but in-creasingly unsatisfactory spell at Brazilian giants Atletico Mineiro, and after former na-tional team coach Luiz Felipe Scolari excluded him from his World Cup squad, Ronaldinho terminated his contract in order to search for a new challenge and to rediscover his old form abroad. For years he dazzled football fans across the globe with his inspired solo runs and spectacular tricks, the like of which had never been seen before. Yet recently the Bra-zilian appeared to have fallen out of love with the game a little.
However, the nimble-footed samba dance with which the 34-year-old celebrated his de-but goal, as well as the stunning pass to set up Camilo Sanvezzo to put Queretaro 2-0 ahead, provided ample evidence that the veteran has lost none of his flair and that he is on track to recover his former finesse and enthusiasm. The playmaker also seems to be fully motivated despite being in the twilight of his career. “So far I’ve won the league with all of my clubs and I hope to continue that here too,” Ronaldinho said at his unveiling. “I haven’t won a trophy in Mexico yet, that’s why I’m here.”
If he can stay true to his word and build on his impressive first outing, it is not hard to imagine a broad smile returning not only to his face, but also to those of football enthusi-asts around the world. There would not be many people who would begrudge him, or lov-ers of the beautiful game, that pleasure. Å
At ease once more
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F I F A’ S W O M E N W O R L D R A N K I N G
** Inactive for more than 18 months and therefore not ranked.
* Provisionally listed due to not having played more than five matches against officially ranked teams.
→ http://www.fifa.com/worldranking
The September edition of the Women’s World Ranking has been heavily shaped by many qualifying matches, particularly for next year’s Women’s World Cup in Canada. The ranking points awarded for these games have seen three South American teams – Peru (52nd), Paraguay (54th) and Ecuador (49th) – return to the ranking,
which means that all ten CONMEBOL teams are in the table once again, quite a turnaround in fortunes as only three South American teams were in the ranking in the second half of 2013.
Once again there are no changes at the very top, although Germany have cut the USA’s lead
to a mere six points. World champions Japan are also looking over their shoulders in third place as France are now just 14 points behind them. It is therefore possible that the next edition of the ranking in December 2014 will reveal some movement in the top three.
Rank Team Change in ranking Points
1 USA 0 2185
2 Germany 0 2179
3 Japan 0 2081
4 France 0 2067
5 Sweden 0 2021
6 Brazil 0 2002
7 England 1 1994
8 Canada -1 1970
9 Norway 1 1960
10 Australia -1 195711 Korea DPR 0 1954
12 Denmark 3 1892
13 Italy -1 1890
14 China PR -1 1869
15 Netherlands -1 1868
16 Spain 0 1865
17 Korea Republic 1 1835
18 Switzerland 1 1825
19 New Zealand 1 1815
20 Iceland -3 1814
21 Scotland 0 1807
22 Russia 0 1779
23 Finland 0 1778
24 Ukraine 0 1771
25 Mexico 0 1760
26 Austria 0 1700
27 Belgium 0 1688
28 Czech Republic 0 1669
29 Republic of Ireland 3 1664
30 Thailand -1 1654
31 Colombia 0 1646
32 Wales 5 1633
33 Poland -3 1631
34 Vietnam -1 1626
35 Nigeria -1 1623
36 Romania 0 1618
37 Argentina -2 1605
38 Chile 4 1579
39 Chinese Taipei -1 1574
40 Costa Rica 0 1566
41 Portugal 0 1565
42 Hungary -3 1560
43 Uzbekistan 0 1548
44 Serbia 0 1535
45 Myanmar 1 1530
46 Trinidad and Tobago 1505
47 Slovakia 0 1501
48 Belarus -3 1496
49 Ecuador 1495
50 Ghana -2 1467
51 Cameroon -2 1457
52 Peru 1442
53 India -3 1433
54 Paraguay 1431
55 Equatorial Guinea -4 1425
56 South Africa -5 1423
57 Jordan -4 1418
58 Croatia -1 1412
58 Iran -4 1412
60 Haiti -4 1393
Rank Team Change in ranking Points61 Turkey -1 1389
62 Israel -7 1387
63 Venezuela 3 1381
64 Northern Ireland -5 1376
64 Côte d'Ivoire -3 1376
66 Slovenia -8 1374
67 Panama -3 1363
68 Hong Kong -3 1360
69 Bulgaria -7 1359
70 Kazakhstan -7 1356
71 Bosnia and Herzegovina 0 1354
71 Jamaica 1354
73 Albania -6 1345
74 Greece -6 1341
75 Algeria -6 1334
76 Indonesia -6 1330
77 Morocco -3 1316
78 Tunisia -3 1314
79 Guatemala -3 1313
80 Philippines -2 1309
81 Uruguay -10 1308
82 Faroe Islands -9 1305
83 Bahrain -4 1302
84 Estonia -7 1297
85 Guam 1294
86 Laos -6 1283
87 Egypt -6 1275
88 Malaysia -6 1269
89 Senegal -6 1257
90 Lithuania -6 1236
91 Bolivia -6 1231
92 Dominican Republic 1219
92 Montenegro -6 1219
94 Cuba -7 1206
95 Zimbabwe -7 1195
96 Mali -7 1191
96 Palestine -7 1191
98 El Salvador -7 1184
99 Latvia -7 1182
100 Singapore -7 1177
101 Ethiopia -7 1154
102 Suriname -7 1152
102 Honduras -7 1152
104 Malta -7 1147
105 Luxembourg -7 1145
106 Kyrgyzstan -7 1136
107 Puerto Rico -7 1108
108 Nicaragua -7 1106
109 Nepal -7 1104
110 Georgia -7 1100
111 Cyprus -7 1096
112 FYR Macedonia -7 1092
113 Namibia -7 1021
114 St. Vincent and the Grenadines -7 1000
115 St. Lucia 991
116 Zambia -8 986
117 Bangladesh -8 979
118 St. Kitts and Nevis -8 956
119 Lebanon -9 955
120 Bermuda -8 943
121 Maldives -8 940
122 Tanzania -8 931
123 Mozambique -8 873
124 Kuwait -8 870
125 Qatar -8 864
126 Cayman Islands -8 849
127 Swaziland -8 838
128 Lesotho -8 836
129 Belize -8 825
130 Antigua and Barbuda -8 767
Rank Team Change in ranking Points131 Aruba -8 758
132 Botswana -8 735
United Arab Emirates ** 1665
Papua New Guinea ** 1476
Azerbaijan ** 1341
Tonga ** 1316
Fiji ** 1306
Guyana ** 1256
Congo ** 1238
Tahiti ** 1238
Solomon Islands ** 1195
New Caledonia ** 1188
Benin ** 1187
Moldova ** 1177
Cook Islands ** 1170
Vanuatu ** 1139
Angola ** 1134
Congo DR ** 1132
Samoa ** 1110
Armenia ** 1104
American Samoa ** 1075
Guinea ** 1063
Eritrea ** 1060
Gabon ** 1031
Grenada ** 1029
Uganda ** 965
Sri Lanka ** 965
Pakistan ** 937
Guinea-Bissau ** 927
Syria ** 927
Dominica ** 906
Afghanistan ** 899
Iraq ** 882
Malawi ** 840
Curaçao ** 831
Bhutan ** 785
Sierra Leone * 1132
Burkina Faso * 1038
Barbados * 997
Rwanda * 996
Macao * 922
Liberia * 877
British Virgin Islands * 867
US Virgin Islands * 852
Kenya * 816
Andorra * 791
Comoros * 761
Turks and Caicos Islands * 704
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T H E S O U N D O F F O O T B A L L T H E O B J E C T
No-one danced round a corner flag as evoca-tively as Roger Milla. After his hit role at the 1990 World Cup, it is no wonder the Cameroonian also felt the urge to sing.
Thanks to Roger Milla’s four goals at Italia ’90 Cameroon became the first African team to reach a World Cup quarter-final.
However, the iconic player’s most important contribution to footballing history was un-doubtedly the dance round the corner flag, his trademark goal celebration performed with a broad grin and a coquettish wiggle of the buttocks. Even now, any team worthy of the name has a “Milla-lite” in its ranks, who is not afraid to lift the communal spirits with ever more absurd dance routines.
A less well-known fact is that Roger Milla attempted to translate his rhythmic talent to the world of music. He released three singles in 1990 and 1991, and an album entitled “Saga Africa”. The music was provided by a Fran-co-Belgian studio team, although Milla did have a hand in writing the lyrics. We cannot blame him for devoting no fewer than two of the tracks to his two talents: “Dance With The Lion” is the one (“Come on Roger, Dance With The Lion!”), “The Milla Move” is the other (“Pump it up/the Milla Move/Exact”). Milla’s
voice bears a distant resemblance to that of Barry White, although it is not quite as supple.
Despite the album title, his musical heart seems to beat more in time to Europop and disco rather than the sounds of his homeland. The dominant influences at the start of the album are disco beats, guest vocalists and Cameroonian master Manu “Soul Makossa” Dibango on sax. Later, the rhythms become less frantic and the sounds more atmospheric as Milla comes closer to the microphone, speaking rather than singing as he celebrates the joys of fatherhood, or to recite Rudyard Kipling’s seminal poem “If”.
The album and a singing career close with a form of negative ode to aerodromes: “Airports, again and again...” The artist takes up the subject in his sleeve notes: “The aircraft takes the player away from his country, but his heart will always stay behind.” As it happens, Roger Milla did actually make it into the hit parade in 1991 thanks to tennis ace Yannick Noah, who stormed the French charts with a single curiously also entitled “Saga Africa”. Noah’s lyrics include a tribute to Milla and his Cameroonian colleagues François Omam-Biyik and Thomas Nkono. Æ
Disco with RogerHanspeter Kuenzler
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When the World Cup was yet to be transmit-ted in full, globally and in colour on TV, but was instead covered in radio broad-
casts of epic length, a certain requisite took on central importance: the microphone. The scep-tre in a telephonic ceremony, it was entrusted for the duration of a football match to those who were deemed best qualified: the best chroniclers, the best storytellers, the best for-mulators. In short, it was handed to a magician who understood the secret of rousing the lis-teners clustered round their radio sets at home.
From the early 1950s to the mid-1960s, and primarily from the World Cups of the time, FIFA made recordings using the 41 cm long ENG microphone manufactured by RCA, the Radio Corporation of America, and depict-ed above. This microphone was eventually presented as a gift to the general secretary of the Spanish association, whose museum loaned it to the museum run by their Argentinian counterparts in 1968.
Not only in the world of radio reporting, heavyweight tabletop microphones with state-ly Bakelite pedestals rapidly gave way to head-sets, which hardly weigh anything – in physical terms, you understand. Spoken words can still carry the most weight of all. Å
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T U R N I N G P O I N T
NameHerbert ProhaskaDate and place of birth8 August 1955, ViennaPositionMidfielderClubs1972–1980, 1983–1989 Austria Vienna 1980–1982 Inter Milan 1982–1983 AS RomaAustrian national team84 appearances, 12 goals
I hadn’t been in the starting eleven during our 1978 World Cup qualifying campaign, and I wasn’t supposed to face Turkey in Izmir either. But when Josef Hickersberger was forced to undergo an appendix operation just days before the match on 30 October 1977,
I was drafted in to replace him. It was my first start of the campaign – and it came in our all -important qualifier against the Turks.
The atmosphere was intense. The Turks had already tried to disrupt our preparations by giv-ing us a training pitch without floodlights and a noisy hotel to stay in. We were even forced to borrow shirts from our opponents just prior to kick-off when they suddenly decided that they wanted to play in red. We didn’t have a white strip with us, so our kitman had to remove the Turkish half-moon from each individual shirt. It might’ve caused chaos, but it didn’t help them in the slightest. Luck was on our side that night.
Chances were few and far between until the 71st minute, when the Turks hit the post with a header. We responded by quickly launching the decisive counterattack, with Hans Krankl making a 60-metre surge down the left. His pass was intended for the onrushing Willy Kreuz, but Fatih Terim, the Turkish sweeper, deflected the ball into my path as he attempted to block the cross. The chance was presented to me on a plate, and I managed to get a toe on the ball to prod it home ‘Tipp-Kick’ style – not the way I would usually shoot at all.
I’ll never forget what happened next. I turned to my left in celebration and was quick-ly mobbed to the ground by my team-mates on the running track surrounding the pitch. The only problem was that I’d sprinted directly
towards the Turkish fans, all 72,000 of whom seemed consumed by rage. Oranges and man-darins rained down on us. The fans threw vir-tually everything they could get their hands on at us, but I couldn’t have cared less at that point. They could have bombarded us with tomatoes too for all I cared.
My goal didn’t just seal a 1-0 win for us; it also meant that Austria qualified for their first World Cup finals in 20 years. And that toe poke in Izmir was the making of me. From that point onwards there were no more discussions about whether Prohaska would play or not. From that day on I always featured in the starting line-up.
The side story with the hat was also quite funny. While the fans were parading me on their shoulders after the final whistle, I sudden-ly found myself wearing a huge red and white
top hat. The image became famous all over the world. In fact, I’ve still got a picture of it hang-ing on the wall at home. On the flight home I left the hat on the plane, but it suddenly reap-peared many years later. It has since been put on display at the museum of the Austrian Football Association. Å
As told to Bernd Fisa
Herbert Prohaska made a name for himself on the international stage by prodding home the goal that secured Austria’s passage to the 1978 World Cup.
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