Kicker (sports magazine)

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Kicker Sportmagazin (generally referred to only asThe Kicker) is the leading German sports magazine. In the main it focuses on football. The magazine, founded in 1920 by Walther Bensemann is published twice weekly in Nuremberg. The Monday edition sells in average ca. 240,000 copies, whilst the Thursday edition has an average circulation of about 220,000 copies (2005 figures).

The Kicker is a founding member of European Sports Magazines, an association of football publications.

[edit] kicker-Torjägerkanone award

The kicker annually awards the most prolific scorer of the Bundesliga with the kicker Torjägerkanone (kicker scorer cannon) award. It is equivalent to the pichichi in Spanish soccer.

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