The wild soccer guys

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Die Wilde Fußballkerle is a children's book series by Joachim Masannek and the illustrator Jan Birck . It is about 13 football-loving children who, with their club , the Wilder Fußballkerlen e. W. (“conquer the world”), experience all kinds of adventures. Each of the thirteen books is written from the perspective of the person giving the title.

Characters

The wild guys

  • Leon, the slalom dribbler, goalscorer and lightning goal preparer (Sturm): Leon is the leader of the Wilder Kerle and is characterized above all by his will to win, his stubbornness and his loyalty to the team. At first he was much more focused on his personal success; so he throws Raban and Joschka out of the team in the first volume because, in his opinion, they would endanger the victory against the "invincible winners", but towards the end of the first book he realizes that the team's success exceeds his personal one. His loyalty to the Wilder Kerlen is shown on the one hand by the fact that he always tries to help fellow players and friends out of awkward situations, on the other hand, from volume three onwards, by a negative attitude towards newcomers. At first he does not see Vanessa, Deniz or Annika in the team, until they convince him with the help of some wild guys . His great role model is Gerd Müller whose jersey number 13 he wears. His best friend is Fabi, with whom he, known as the Golden Twins , often runs into storms together.
  • Fabi, the fastest right winger in the world (right winger): Fabi is Leon's best friend. Together they are the Golden Twins , the assault and goal machinery of the wild guys. In contrast to Leon, Fabi is already interested in girls. Fabi is recruited by FC Bayern in the eighth volume, but when he realizes how important his friends from the Wilder Fußballkerlen e. W. are, he leaves Bavaria and through him the wild guys win a decisive game. He lives with his mother in pheasant garden number 4 and is therefore a neighbor of Juli and Joschka. When he's nervous, he starts whistling Knockin 'on Heaven's Door .
  • Marlon, the number 10 (midfield): Marlon is Leon's brother. For the team he is the heart, soul and intuition . When Marlon tears his cruciate ligament in volume 10, his football career seems to be over for him. The wild guys use a trick to take him to the Bayern team doctor, where he regains his intuition. In this tape, Vanessa and Marlon fall in love, but neither of them admit it.
  • Raban, the hero (substitute goalscorer): Raban wears Coca-Cola glasses and is practically blind without them, so his fixed position is the substitute bench. In volume 6 he asks the great football oracle whether he will one day be a professional. But he shouldn't become a professional, instead he becomes the manager of the wild guys.
  • Felix, the whirlwind ( left winger ): Felix is asthmatic , otherwise plays as a left winger. In the game against FC Bayern Munich, he helped the Wilder Kerlen win in Volume 2.
  • Jojo, who dances with the sun (far left): Jojo comes from the orphanage . He didn't even have real football boots and played in patched sandals until he was given real shoes in Volume 11 and also learned that material possessions simply can't top friendship.
  • Markus, the invincible (goalkeeper): Markus lives in a huge house with servants and money. His father wants Markus to play golf and not football, which is why Markus secretly sneaks into training.
  • July "Huckleberry" Fort Knox, the back four in one person (defense, last man): Juli plays in defense, he also built the three-story tree house of the wild guys: Camelot , which is owned by Gonzo Gonzales, the leader of the Flame Hats , in band 9 is destroyed and rebuilt. In volume 4, Juli is blackmailed by the fat Michi, but with the help of his friends he escapes him and finds his father, whom he has not seen for years.
  • Joschka, the seventh cavalry (defense, very last man): Joschka is Juli's younger brother. On his 7th birthday (volume 9) he recaptured the devil's pot from the flame hats .
  • Vanessa, the Intrepid (midfield): Vanessa wants to be the first woman in the men's national team. After moving from Hamburg to Munich (Volume 3), she not only fought for her place with the Wild Soccer Guys, but also became their leaders together with Leon and Fabi.
  • Maxi "Tippkick" Maximilian, the man with the hardest shot in the world (defensive midfield): Maxi doesn't talk, not even at school or on the phone. For him, football is everything, but when it comes to his friends, Maxi sacrifices his freedom and accepts weeks of house arrest and an absolute football ban. Then he even breaks his silence.
  • Deniz, the locomotive (striker, everywhere): Deniz is a Turk who looks more like an invincible winner with his bright red mohawk haircut and a motorcycle jacket that is much too big. With the Wilder Kerlen he learned that he needs glasses (Volume 5), that he is not on his own and that friends are much more important than personal triumph .
  • Rocce, the magician: Rocce is the son of the Brazilian star Giacomo Ribaldo.
  • Annika, the dragon rider: Annika is Rocce's friend. The wild guys don't know much about her. But they know that Annika cannot swear and that her parents are afraid of flying.

Wilfried's gang, the fantastic four

  • Hajji ben Hajji ben Hajji ben Hajji: For a long time the wild guys only knew him as a fruit dealer, whom Raban always rode his bike into. But under the fruit stand is the entrance to Hajji's secret inventor's workshop.
  • Edgar the penguin: He's the butler of Markus' parents, but he has always helped the wild guys. At first he makes a strange impression on the guys because he speaks with a French accent and asks for a code word before he lets them in.
  • Billi, the airplane propeller, striped sock, rattlesnake man lived with other homeless people under the bridge on the river, which the wild guys call the gates of hell. He now works in a beer garden and is now the new friend of Jojo's mother. He gave Jojo brand new football boots and became like a father to him.
  • Willi, the best coach in the world (trainer) lives in the caravan behind the football field kiosk. He wanted to become a professional soccer player himself, but injured his knee. He trains the wild soccer guys. He also has a drinking problem.

The opponents of the wild guys

  • Wilson "Gonzo" Gonzales, the pale vampire , is the leader of the Flame Hats, the skater gang made up of seven eighth graders from the "Nebelburg" boarding school.
  • Fat Michi is the leader of the invincible victors . He became their friend through the wild guys' victory and even helped them get Maxi back on her feet. But he's waiting to take revenge on the guys.
  • The fat cousin is fat Michi's older cousin . He lives in the Black Hills and thinks he's a robber captain. He lives up to his name: According to Juli's statement, fat Michi is a soup fool compared to his cousin.
  • The Biestigen Biester are a girls' soccer team from Hamm , who challenge the wild soccer guys and contest them for the title of “wildest team in the world”. But the end result of their game is a 1-1, and for this reason the Wild Bunch remain the "wildest football team in the world".
  • The Ragnarök Wolves are a soccer team that hosts the freestyle soccer contest and have lived in the forest for three years.
  • The silver lights behind the fog live behind the fog that is at the gates of Ragnarök. The fog comes before the final every year, and it's getting closer and closer. Leon and the guys are happy to accept this challenge as well.
  • The shadow seekers behind the horizon live in an old metal lock. Darkside, Blossom, Jet Drive, Terry, Mary, Jeckyl and Hyde are the crew of the shadow seekers (vampires). The guys can't keep up in Soccer63D, but in the final with Maxi and Vanessa as vampires by their side, they make it.

Books

So far, 13 volumes of the Wilder Kerle have been published, with all books also available as paperback versions on dtv . The date of publication in brackets.

In March 2020, the first three volumes of the series (Leon, Felix, Vanessa) were published as a revised new edition with color illustrations by 360 ° Verlag. Further volumes will follow in September 2020.

In 2012 and 2013 two Wilde Kerle books from the Die Wilden Kerle Level 2.0 series were published by Baumhaus Verlag and Bastei Lübbe Verlag:

In addition to the “Wilde Kerle” volumes, Joachim Masannek and Jan Birck published numerous other publications that deal with the Wilde Kerle. This includes, for example, instructions on how to play football, a quote book with swear words, poster books, books about the films, calendars and other publications.

Film adaptations

In 2003 Joachim Masannek filmed his book series in the first film Die Wilden Kerle - Everything is good as long as you are wild! himself and directed, as with the following films. In 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 four follow-up films were released. The scripts were changed especially in the second and third part and have little to do with the book series. Likewise, members of the wild guys disappear or reappear here from time to time.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 360 Grad Verlag. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ The Wild Things Level 2.0. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ The Wild Things Level 2.0. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
  4. ↑ http://www.tivi.de/fernsehen/diewildenkerle/start/

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