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The greatest comeback : from genocide to football glory - the story of Béla Guttmann

Title

The greatest comeback : from genocide to football glory - the story of Béla Guttmann / David Bolchover.

Author

Bolchover, David

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Description

xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Subjects

Bibliography (note)

Contents

Before Pep Guardiola and before José Mourinho, there was Béla Guttmann: the first superstar football coach, and the man who paved the way for the celebrated coaches of the modern age.
More extraordinarily still, Guttmann was a Holocaust survivor. Having narrowly dodged death by hiding for months in an attic near Budapest as thousands of fellow Jews in the neighbourhood were dragged off to be murdered, Guttmann later escaped from a slave labour camp. He was one of the lucky ones. His father, sister and wider family perished at the hands of the Nazis.
But by 1961, as coach of Benfica, he had lifted one of football's greatest prizes: the European Cup - a feat he repeated the following year. Rising from the death pits of Europe to become its champion in just over sixteen years, Guttmann performed the single greatest comeback in football history.

Call Number

JFE 17-7936

ISBN

OCLC

988851721

Author

Bolchover, David, author.

Title

The greatest comeback : from genocide to football glory - the story of Béla Guttmann / David Bolchover.

Publisher

London : Biteback Publishing Ltd, [2017]

Copyright Date

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-274) and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 17-7936