You have to be eleven friends

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You have to be eleven friends is a book for young people by sports reporter Sammy Drechsel from 1955. The football novel is considered a classic of the genre.

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The book is about a class from a Berlin elementary school in Wilmersdorf who is fighting hard for the city's soccer school championship. The main character is the team captain Heini Kamke . In addition to the athletic spirit and community spirit of the boys, the book also touches on social issues such as the unemployment of fathers. The novel is set in the 1930s and contains autobiographical information about Sammy Drechsel, whose real name was Karl-Heinz Kamke . The title of the book comes from the " Victoria statue " (the predecessor of today's soccer championship trophy, awarded from 1903 to 1944), on the base of which the saying "You have to be eleven friends if you want to win" was engraved.

expenditure

  • You have to be eleven friends . Thienemann , Stuttgart 1955
  • You have to be eleven friends . A football novel for the youth. With a foreword by Fritz Walter , Ravensburger Taschenbücher ; Vol. 8, Ravensburg 1963
  • You have to be eleven friends. A football novel for the youth. Omnibus paperback. May 2004.
  • You have to be eleven friends . Thienemann, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-522-18062-7

Radio play adaptations

The book was edited as a radio play. There is also an abridged audio book version read in by Dieter Hildebrandt (arrangement and direction: Angelika Schaack, Hamburg: Hörcompany 2002, ISBN 3-935036-25-6 ).

See also

List of winged words / E # You must be eleven friends.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Mai: The football coverage on pay TV: A comparison of structures and offers between PREMIERE and arena . GRIN Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-640-20607-0 , pp. 39 (152 p., Limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ "You have to be eleven friends - an exciting football story", DECCA, 1978. GER 6.23466 AF, https://www.musik-sammler.de/media/953180/