Quarterback: From the first throw to the world championship title in flag football

When Philipp Pölzl returned to Austria from a semester abroad in the USA at the age of 23, he wanted one thing above all: to play flag football. He decided to buy a football and started looking for like-minded people. A group of sports enthusiasts came together - the nucleus of the first flag football team in Graz, the Styrian Studs.Only a few years later, Pölzl was playing quarterback for the national team. In a legendary final against the USA, the motherland of (flag) football, he led Austria to the world championship title.In his book, Pölzl recounts how this improbable success was possible . He tells of pure enthusiasm, overcoming setbacks, the pitfalls of extraordinary motivation -and of the decisive seconds between victory and defeat.