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Stefan Effenberg may be one of the greatest German players of all time.
Stefan Effenberg may be one of the greatest German players of all time.
But as his autobiography I Showed Them All confirms, he is not the most modest (in any meaning of the word!).
As a rule, the only books drearier than footballing autobiographies, at least in the English-speaking world, are economics textbooks and VS Naipaul novels.
(Have any of you, for instance, had the misfortune to read Kevin Phillips’ Second Time Around or Henrik Larsson’s The Autobiography? Christ.)
This dismal state of affairs compares unfavourably with Germany, where the tell-all tome is a hardy annual among the nation’s footballers.
Sepp Maier, the legendary goalkeeper of the 1970s, got the ball rolling with the cryptically-titled Who’s Kissing Me Now?. Not to be outdone, one of his successors in the national team, Uli Stein, brought out a book claiming that he had been overlooked at the 1986 World Cup because he didn’t have a contract with Adidas.
The best known of these lurid publications is the e