<史记>为纪传体史书,本文向太史令所创的体例致敬。希望以Lothar为线索,尽情描摹德国足球这20年来的盛衰写真。借用狄更斯<双城记>的开头,1980-2000年的德国足球史便是这样的时代。It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way--in short, the period was so. far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.