Career
Willy Meisl"s writings did much to transform the way football was perceived and played throughout continental Europe. In 1955 he coined the phrase "The Whirl" to describe the play of his brother"s Austrian "Wunderteam" of the 1930s. He wrote: ‘We must free our soccer youth from the shackles of playing to order, along rails as it were.
We must give them ideas and encourage them to develop their own.’
Meisl"s early career showed an inclination toward sports and participation.
He completed legal studies in the early 1920s but his career was in print, working for a Berlin newspaper (Vossische Zeitung) between 1924–1933 before establishing himself as an astute author and editors He emigrated to the United Kingdom in January, 1934 following the Nazi"s seizure of power in Germany and continued as a journalist.