The Greatest Comeback: From Genocide to Football Glory: The Story of Bela Guttmann
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Before Pep Guardiola and before Jos Mourinho, there was B la Guttmann: the first superstar football coach. Remarkably, Guttmann was also 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. His father, sister and wider family were murdered by 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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1785903713
ISBN13:9781785903717
Release Date:November 2018
Publisher:Biteback Publishing
Length:304 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.0" x 7.7"
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