Contenidos:Prologue: heroes of a European past, Richard Holt, J.A. Mangan. Charismatic national leader - Jahn Turnvater, Christiane Eisenberg; "muscular, militaristic and manly" - the British middle-class hero as moral messenger, J.A. Mangan; cricket and Englishness - the batsman as hero, Richard Holt; "our Stephen and our Harold" - Edwardian footballers as local heroes, Tony Mason; national identity and the sporting champion - Jean Borotra and French history, Jean-Michel Faure; symbol of national resurrection - Max Schmeling, German sports idol, Siegfried Gerhmann; the immigrant as hero - Kopa, Mekloufi and French football, Pierre Lanfranchi, Alfred Wahl; Italian cycling and the creation of a Catholic hero - the Bartali myth, Stefano Pivato; a culture of urban cosmopolitanism - Uridil and Sindelar as Viennese coffee-house heroes, Roman Horak, Wolfgang Moderthaner; courage against cupidity - Carpentier and Dempsey - symbols of cultural confrontation, Andre Rauch. Epilogue heroes for a European future, J.A. Mangan, Richard Holt.