

"Tor! The Story of German Football" (2002) was the first extensive English-language history of German football and has since been translated into Japanese, Danish and Polish. In September 2016, he joined the editorial staff of 11 Freunde magazine, Germany's biggest football monthly. Between 20, he was a regular columnist for ESPN FC (formerly ESPNsoccernet), which has been called the world's most popular football website.

Hesse has published articles in newspapers and magazines in a variety of countries, including England, United States, Sweden, Japan and Israel, and was the editor of the German-language edition of "Champions", the official UEFA Champions League magazine, for which he worked as a contributing editor until the publication's demise in 2015. He has covered popular music for fanzines and magazines, such as the German edition of Rolling Stone, but primarily writes about sports, predominantly (association) football.

He graduated from Bochum University in 1994, having written his M.A. Order our latest quarterly – an analysis of some of football’s boldest talents such as Roberto Firmino and Leônidas instances when football and politics intersected in the UK, Argentina, Georgia and Qatar tragedy and surprise in the midlands and so much more – Issue 39.Ulrich " Uli" Hesse, also ~ Hesse-Lichtenberger, (born 1966 in Dortmund) is a German author, journalist and editor. Uli Hesse is an author and journalist who has written extensively on German football, with books including Tor! The Story of German Football, Bayern: Creating a Global Superclub and Building the Yellow Wall: The Incredible Rise and Cult Appeal of Borussia Dortmund. Marcus also regularly hosts our live Q&A events across the country alongside Jonathan. Marcus Speller is a host of the Football Ramble podcast as well as Answerable Questions with Questionable Answers. He’s contributed to a number of publications including the Guardian and Sports Illustrated as well as having authored Behind the Curtain, Inverting the Pyramid, The Outsider, Angels with Dirty Faces and most recently The Names Heard Long Ago, among others. Jonathan Wilson founded The Blizzard in 2011 and is editor of the magazine. Uli, Jonathan and Marcus discuss the troubles facing of German football in the 80s, the remarkable desperate situation Borussia Dortmund found themselves in and the chaotic scenes which helped ensure their survival. On this episode of Greatest Games, Jonathan Wilson and Marcus Speller are joined by Uli Hesse as they remember the 1985-86 Bundesliga relegation/promotion playoff which could’ve seen Borussia Dortmund drop out of the top-flight.
