Summer 2006. The world is visiting friends, and Germany is celebrating a huge football party with Schweinsteiger, Podolski, Klinsmann & Co. Nine years later, the revelations by SPIEGEL investigative journalists turn the “summer fairy tale” into a “true scandal.” But honestly: Has anyone ever asked themselves what they really had to do to bring the 2006 World Cup to Germany? This story tells of a crazy competition between football nations. About Franz Beckenbauer’s trip around the world, an organ in the Caribbean, expensive stockings, a mysterious fax and a mutton that wasn’t allowed to fly… Narrated by sportschau presenter Esther Sedlaczek and contemporary witnesses such as ex-DFB presidents Wolfgang Niersbach and Theo Zwanziger, former FIFA president Sepp Blatter and ex-Titanic boss Martin Sonneborn. Here you can hear the really true story of how Germany became hosts of the 2006 World Cup!
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