Tommy Tainant
Diamond Member
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Matthias Sindelar
The life of Matthias Sindelar, the world-class footballer who defied a dictator.
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Matthias Sindelar wasn’t merely a gifted player. He was quite literally a game-changer. His cerebral, complex style of play, less direct and forceful than many of his contemporaries, altered the way people saw football. It’s for this reason that he was equally beloved by both blue collar fans and the chin-stroking, café-dwelling intellectuals of Europe. Many knew him as the “Paper Man” because of his misleadingly slight and flimsy build, while some went so far as to call him the Mozart of football.
Sindelar retired from the game rather than play for the Nazis and they killed him for it. A great man in a country plagued by right wing loons.