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| Editor | Rainer Holzschuh[1] |
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| Categories | Sports magazine |
| Frequency | Twice weekly |
| Publisher | Olympia-Verlag GmbH |
| First issue | 14 July 1920; 105 years ago (1920-07-14) |
| Country | Germany |
| Based in | Nuremberg, Germany |
| Language | German |
| Website | kicker.de |
Kicker (stylized inall lowercase) is Germany's leading sports magazine,[citation needed] focused primarily onfootball. The magazine was founded in 1920 by German football pioneerWalther Bensemann and is published twice weekly, usually Monday and Thursday. Each edition sells around 80,000 copies.Kicker is a founding member ofEuropean Sports Media, an association of football publications.
Kicker annually awards the most prolific scorer of theBundesliga with theKicker Torjägerkanone (lit. 'Kicker scorer cannon') award. It is equivalent to thePichichi Trophy in Spanish football.
The magazine also publishes analmanac, theKicker Fußball-Almanach. It was first published from 1937 to 1942, and then continuously from 1959 to date. They also publish a yearbook (Kicker Fußball-Jahrbuch).
Kicker was first issued in July 1920 inKonstanz, Germany. The magazine's headquarters were originally inStuttgart before relocating toNuremberg[2] in 1926. During World War II, the magazine merged with the publicationFußball, and was eventually discontinued in fall 1944. After the war, the magazine was again published (under the nameSport) by the newly incorporated Olympia-Verlag publishing company. Former chief editor Friedebert Becker again began publishingKicker in 1951, and for a number of years, bothKicker andSport appeared at the same time. In 1966,Kicker was sold toAxel Springer AG. In 1968, Olympia-Verlag in Nuremberg acquiredKicker and merged it withSportmagazin, which had been published twice weekly since 1952. The first issue of the newly foundedKicker-Sportmagazin was released on 7 October 1968. Beside the two weekly publications,Kicker provides adigital edition since 2012. Theonline version of kicker.de offers a broad live ticker for over 80 different international leagues.[3] The magazine has threeapps in theiTunes store.[4]
The modern version ofKicker covers a number of sporting competitions and events, including:
In 1998,Kicker published a list of the best football clubs of the 20th century. The list was based on the opinions of former players and managers (Giovanni Trapattoni,Johan Cruyff,Udo Lattek,Just Fontaine etc.). Each of them could name their choice for the five greatest teams and provide arguments in support thereof. Not all of them stuck to the allotted number of picks. For example,Johan Cruyff only picked three teams -Ajax,Milan andDynamo Kyiv.[5]
In 2014, the magazine created a new list of the best clubs in history. This time it was formed based on the opinions of the magazine's editors. The list was based on criteria as the clubs' history, achievements at international stage, titles won and the career of its own players. In the Top 10, three teams represented Germany.[6][7]
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