Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory - The Story of Bela GuttmanPaperback
Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory - The Story of Bela GuttmanPaperback Before Pep Guardiola and before Jos Mourinho, there was B la Guttmann: the first superstar football coach.…
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Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory - The Story of Bela GuttmanPaperback
Before Pep Guardiola and before Jos Mourinho, there was B la Guttmann: the first superstar football coach. 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. Remarkably, Guttmann was also a Holocaust survivor.
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. His father, sister and wider family were murdered by the Nazis. Rising from the death pits of Europe to become its champion in just over sixteen years, Guttmann performed the single greatest comeback in football
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