About the Author

Uli Hesse is an editor at 11Freunde, Germany's biggest football monthly, and has been published on five continents. His first English-language book, Tor! The Story of German Football, was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award, while two of his German books have been nominated for that country's Football Book of the Year prize. In June 2017, he was appointed a member of the German Academy for Football Culture. His book, Building the Yellow Wall,won Football Book of the Year at the 2019 British Sports Book Awards.