Creating World Champions: How German Soccer Went from Shambles to Champions

Content: Cover
 Table of Contents
 Preface
 Introduction
 PART 1: LOOKING BACK
 1 The dancing refrigerators --
From the depression of the turn of the millennium to the fourth title
 1.1 The first step --
An extensive network of DFB centers
 1.2 Talent development at youth performance centers
 1.3 Star wars --
Ensuring quality at youth performance centers
 1.4 Reformation 2.0
 1.5 Visible progress
 1.6 German in-house production: The local player
 1.7 To the top of the world
 2 A word from Germany's top coach --
Interview with Frank Wormuth
 PART 2: YOUTH DEVELOPMENT. 3 The wellspring of the future --
Youth performance centers3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Training at VfB Stuttgart --
Tradition obliges
 3.2.1 The newly constructed youth performance center --
An important foundation for the future
 3.2.2 A conversation with Rainer Adrion, athletic director at the youth performance center
 3.3 The Kroos family --
A down-home success story
 3.3.1 Interview with Roland Kroos
 3.4 The Berlin way --
Training top talent for pro soccer
 3.4.1 Introduction
 3.4.2 Frank Vogel talks
 3.5 School, Chelsea, and the fight for the dream --
Maurice Neubauer of U19 of FC Schalke 04. 3.6 VfL Wolfsburg --
Holistic thinking as the key to youth development3.7 Interview with Werner Mickler, DFB psychologist
 3.8 BVB --
Practiced consistency
 3.8.1 Insights into BVB's approach by U19 coach, Hannes Wolf
 3.8.2 Youth soccer coach as a full-time job
 3.9 Diligence, international flair, and blood, sweat, and tears --
Schalke 04's youth division builds pros
 3.9.1 Interview with Schalke's director of youth development, Oliver Ruhnert
 3.10 At the threshold to pro soccer --
Life after the youth performance center
 PART 3: EXAMPLES
 4 Many roads lead to the top. 4.1 Manuel Neuer --
The boy from Buer starts the goalkeeper revolution4.2 No name --
European vagabond --
world champion --
The crazy tale of Shkodran Mustafi
 4.3 Sebastian Rode --
From a parking lot to FC Bayern
 4.4 Debuting with a club record --
Maximilian Arnold
 4.5 Back to his roots --
The path of Marco Reus
 5 Individual training units of star players
 5.1 Ralf Fährmann
 5.2 Shkodran Mustafi
 5.3 Sebastian Rode
 5.4 Marco Reus
 PART 4: AMATEUR SOCCER
 6 Recreational sports form the base of the path to the Top --
Amateur soccer. 6.1 Started small, made it big --
Some national team players and their beginnings6.2 Project TuS Haltern --
A different kind of amateur club
 7 Between Bernabeu, Arena Berlin, and Stauseekampfbahn Stadium --
Interview with vice world champion, Christoph Metzelder
 8 A look ahead
 8.1 "Germany will dominate European soccer in the next 10 years"
 8.2 More investment to stay on top
 References
 Photo credits.