Kicker (sports magazine)

The Kicker sports magazine (own spellings also kicker sports magazine or kicker sports magazine, often colloquially referred to as a kicker or the kicker) is a traditional, twice -weekly sports magazine. It deals mostly with football. Editor in chief since 2010 Klaus Smentek which forms since 2012, together with Jean -Julien Beer a double guide. The paid circulation of the Monday edition is about 190,000 copies, the Thursday edition about 160.000 copies (as IVW IV / 2012). Apart from the main editorial office in Nuremberg editors work in four external editors (Berlin, Offenbach, Peine and Cologne). The magazine is printed at up to 13 pressure places at once.

The kicker is a founding member of the ESM ( European Sports Media ), an association of football publications.

• 3.1 Special Issues 3.1.1 Football
• 3.1.2 Other Sports

History

On July 14, 1920 first appeared, founded by Walter Bense man in Konstanz " kicker". The editorial office moved to subsequent years via Stuttgart ( from October 1921) and Ludwigshafen (from March 1925) to Nuremberg, where the weekly newspaper was published from 1 October 1926. Due to the war merged the sheet in 1943 with the magazine " football ", and was eventually discontinued in the fall of 1944 entirely. After the Second World War, the magazine founded in 1946 Olympics publishing house was a " sport" (as of January 1948 "Sport Magazine " ) revived. After 1951, the former editor in chief peace Bert Becker had re-established the "kicker" in the publishing Th Martens & Co in Munich, both titles published initially in parallel. In 1966, the " kicker " (now the one was gone over to the new spelling) sold to the Axel Springer Verlag. In July there appeared the first edition. 1968 acquired the Olympia Verlag in Nuremberg, a subsidiary of the publishing house printing press Nuremberg Nuremberg, the "kicker" and combined it with the "Sport Magazine ", which came out twice a week since August 1953. On October 7, 1968, the first edition of the " kicker sports magazine " appeared, chief editors at that time were Karl -Heinz Heimann and Hans Fiederer.

Structure of today's Kicker sports magazine

Today the magazine is published twice weekly, on Mondays and Thursdays and, since 2009, completely in color. For holidays, the publication date may shift to Christmas and New Year often omitted individual issues. The two editions of the Kickers are constructed differently.

Kicker on Monday

The Monday kicker is € 2.40 and contains mostly 80-96 pages. It is optically divided into two parts. There is a cover part which is attached and is made of thin paper magazine and an unbound portion of the inner, which is made of conventional newsprint. The shell portion includes a table of contents and more reports and stories, while in the inner part more updates available. The outer part has a standard for magazines share of advertising, while the inner part is almost free of advertising.

The content depends strongly on the current soccer events. Regular reports on the following:

• Bundesliga
• German national football team ( short reports also on the junior national teams)
• German Women's Football League ( reports via the German national football team of women)
• Premier League ( England)
• Primera Division (Spain )
• Serie A (Italy )
• Other international football leagues (though less extensive )
• 2nd Bundesliga
• 3 League
• Football Regional
• Formula 1
• Other sports (depending on current events, alternating)

Kicker on Thursday

Thursday kicker costs € 1.90 and usually contains 48 pages. He is completely in contrast to Monday kicker of newsprint and contains hardly any advertising. Compared to Monday Kicker Kicker Thursday reported almost exclusively about current events, series or documentaries are the exception. On a table of contents is omitted. Thematically, the two books are the same except for some minor exceptions.

Kicker Digital

On August 14, 2012, the Olympia -Verlag announced their intention to bring out on Sunday and Wednesday evening in a digital edition kicker. The kicker on Sunday evening is intended to € 2.39 cost for the kicker on Wednesday evening is still no price fixed. Background of this measure is the announcement of the Axel Springer publishing house, wanting to deliver the SPORT image on Sunday night also in a digital edition. The first editions were published at the start of the Bundesliga season 2012/13.

Offshoot / Publications

Special Issues

In addition to the twice monthly regular editions of Kicker Olympia -Verlag publishes a variety of special issues that appear under the " kicker ".

Football

In the field of football seem special issues:

• To the start of every Bundesliga season ( also appears as a Braille edition, co-editor: German Institute for the Blind )
• Before the start of the finals of the UEFA Champions League and UEFA Europa League
• Two supplements for the Bundesliga special issue by the end of the summer and winter transfer phase ( in the respective following Monday edition )
• Extra booklets for the football Regional in August, and the first leagues of England, Italy and Spain in September ( in Saturday editions )
• After the end of the Bundesliga season ( special issue "Finale " )
• Before football World Cup and European Championships

The booklets prior to commencement of tournaments in addition team and player collections all around the football, the special issue finals mainly contains analyzes and statistics on the previous season and has the style of a chronicle season.

Other Sports

Besides football also appear to other sports regularly special issues:

• Motorsport ( with focus on the new Formula 1 season)
• Basketball: Special Issue of the season start of the Basketball Bundesliga

Sports Books

From time to time appear on the kicker, numerous sports books, for example, a football lexicon called kicker Almanac and the series edition, in which is always a special football theme, such as the miracle of Bern, is treated.

Youth football

From 1981 to 1986 the kicker sports magazine a " youth kicker " was a monthly basis. This issues were dealt around the junior football in Germany, for example, the final round of the German A- and B- Youth Championships, Junior National or portraits of young professionals in the Bundesliga. Also, tips for youth soccer players, for example, were Training manuals are described. Further, junior teams, represented by smaller villages which were successful. Each youth kicker was at the end of a comic book. From 1987 regular column in the Monday edition, which was set in mid -1990s. At times was from juki awarded " Talent of the Month" for youth men / women awarded.

Kicker online

The online platform has existed since 1997. Earlier this year it was initially embedded in AOL, then reach in June its own domain. Kicker online was transferred by order of the Olympia -Verlag in Nuremberg also established from the digital nervous systems GmbH in large databases, in which more than ten gigabytes of player names and data, analyzes, tables and reports are now available. kicker online has approximately 30 - partly fixed and partly free - employees. An independent from the kicker editorial online editorial team with the help of a live ticker of all major sports events as well as over 80 international leagues. Meanwhile, the news are also available as an RSS feed, and there are shorter videos under the title kicker.tv. In addition to daily football news, this offer, which is produced in collaboration with Spiegel TV, especially background reports.

Manager Game

The existing in the print version since 1991 Kicker Manager game is also playable online since 1997. More than 270,000 registered players try week after week, to achieve the highest possible ratings established by them with the team. The score is calculated from the kicker awarded by editors notes for the Bundesliga players as well as personal goals and penalties. On the Internet, a distinction is made between a Classic and a Interactive version; in the latter, the members of their squad every match can put together another team. Since the season 2006/ 07, there is a manager game in two variants for the 2nd Bundesliga, and since 2007 /08 there is also a "Pro " version, in which up to 18 players can join forces in a league manager. Each league player can only be acquired by a league member in this version, and the squad can be changed weekly purchases and sales. In addition, the accumulated points to increase the available budget, and the value of the players depends on their achieved points. Since the 2008/2009 season, the Classic and interactive version is also available for the new 3 League.

Contract Awards

• Since 1968 awards of the kicker a year, the top scorer at the scorer of the Bundesliga, was previously assigned by the sports magazine since 1966.
• The European Sports Media, in which is the kicker member awarded annually to the Golden Boot ( Golden Shoe ) for the top scorer in Europe.
• Together with the members of the Association of German sports journalists (VDS ) honors the kicker also annually the male and female player of the year.
• Since 1990, the kicker also assigns to the most outstanding personality of German football the title Man of the Year.
• In addition, the kicker since 1974 from his readers at the end of every Bundesliga season lets you choose the Kicker of the year. Categories by 2010 goalkeeper, central defender, winger were defensive winger offensive, defensive midfield, midfield offensively, Striker, as well as coach. Since 2011 are the categories goalkeeper, defense, midfield, storm, trainers and newcomers. The winner in each category will receive the Golden k decisive for the decision of the reader is, according kicker, especially his sympathy, fairness and co-occurrence of the performance of the season.
• Twice a year, the kicker also created the ranking of German football. However, this is not an official award, but rather a classification of the Bundesliga players.

Others

• The kicker is one of the partners of the German Academy for football culture.

• 2008, the German Press Council criticized the magazine for breach of the Press Code. It had infringed upon discovery of the Press Council against the commandment of separation between editorial content and advertising. 2010 the kicker sports magazine, a complaint was issued again. In the World Cup 2010 special issue of the competent committee of the German Press Council had recognized surreptitious according to Directive 7.2.