This is probably an apt Vintage post this week considering events in Brazil. This first eclectic collection of West German retro images featuring some of the country’s outstanding footballers of the era, often in the sort of context you’ll never have seen them in before.

Bert Trautmann, Man City 1951

West Germany 1954

West Germany 1959

Bert Trautmann, Man City 1959

Hamburg 1960

Bayern Munich 1961

Bert Trautmann, Man City 1962

Hans Tilkowski

Helmut Haller and family

CWC Final, Munich 1860 v West Ham 1965

Brunnenmeier &; Rebele, Munich 1860, 1965

Lothar Emmerich, West Ham v Bor Dortmund 1966

Rudolf Kreitlein, referee, at World Cup 1966