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When he inherits a special football badge, German teenager Adi sets
off on a mission to fulfil his grandfather's dying wish and return
the badge to its rightful owner, former England footballer, Edgar
Kail. After tracking Edgar down, Adi gets the chance to learn more
about the achievements of his grandfather, Adolf Jager, and the
story unfolds of a special friendship that spanned twenty years and
survived the horror of the Second World War. Edgar Kail and Adolf
Jager played for their respective clubs in the early twentieth
century and they remain folk heroes even now. Perfect for
less-confident readers, this is a fictional tale of two real-life
footballing heroes, and the moving story of a friendship forged by
the beautiful game.
In The Turning Season, Michael Wagg goes in search of hidden
histories and footballing ghosts from before the fall of the Berlin
Wall. He revisits the 14 clubs that made up the 1989 DDR-Oberliga,
East Germany's top flight. From Aue in the Erzgebirge mountains to
Rostock on the Baltic Sea, this quirky account of his whistle-stop
tour is for fans who know that football clubs are the beating
hearts of the places they play for. There are portraits of the
lower levels as well as the big league, stories of then and now
that celebrate the characters he met pitch-side. There's Mr
Schmidt, who's found a magical fix for the scoreboard at Stahl
Brandenburg; Karl Drossler, who captained Lokomotive Leipzig
against Eusebio's Benfica; and the heroes of Magdeburg's European
triumph, last seen dancing in white bath robes, now pulling in to a
dusty car park by the River Elbe. The Turning Season turns its gaze
on East German football's magnificent peculiarity, with 14
enchanting stories from a lost league in a country that
disappeared.
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