Dr. Heather L. DICHTER is associate professor of sport history and sport management in the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University in Leicester, United Kingdom.  She earned her PhD from the University of Toronto and has previously taught at universities in the United States, Canada, Norway, and Switzerland. She has published extensively on the history of sport with a focus on Germany, the Cold War, the Olympic Games, and diplomacy.  She is the author of Bidding for the 1968 Olympic Games: International Sport’s Cold War Battle with NATO (University of Massachusetts Press, 2021), which won the Lord Aberdare Literary Prize from the British Society of Sports History, and editor of Soccer Diplomacy: International Relations and Football Since 1914 (University Press of Kentucky, 2020). She is the co-editor of Football Diplomacy Beyond Europe: Infrastructure, Spectacle, and the Politics of the Global Game since 1945  (University of Tennessee Press, 2027) with Michelle Sikes, of Berlin Sports: Spectacle, Recreation, and Media in Germany’s Metropolis  (University of Arkansas Press, 2024) with Molly Wilkinson Johnson, of The Olympic Winter Games at 100: Challenges, Complexities, and Legacies (Routledge, 2024) with Sarah Teetzel, of Diplomatic Games: Sport, Statecraft and International Relations since 1945 with Andrew Johns (University Press of Kentucky, 2014), and of Olympic Reform Ten Years Later (Routledge, 2012) with Bruce Kidd.  She is also the Managing Editor of The International Journal of the History of Sport.

Tamás DÉNES is a football historian, former editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport and A Színes Sport, and a sports journalist honored with the Feleki Prize, the Szepesi Prize, and the Ezüstgerely Prize.

He is the author or co-author of one hundred books on football; most notable among these are his five-volume series on the history of Hungarian football and his five-volume series on the history of international football, both co-authored with Éva B. Bába and Mihály Sándor. Among his recent works, Az Aranycsapat – másképpen (“The Golden Team – From a Different Perspective”) stands out.