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The greatest comeback : from genocide to football glory - the story of Béla Guttmann / David Bolchover.
- Title
- The greatest comeback : from genocide to football glory - the story of Béla Guttmann / David Bolchover.
- Author
- Bolchover, David
- Publication
- London : Biteback Publishing Ltd, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 288 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Jacket.
- Alternative Title
- From genocide to football glory : the story of Béla Guttmann
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [269]-274) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781785901393
- 1785901397
- OCLC
- 988851721
- SCSB-12211911
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library