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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bolchover, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Guttmann, Béla, 1899-1981.

Guttmann, Béla.

Jewish soccer players--Hungary--Biography.

Jewish soccer players.

Soccer coaches--Europe--Biography.

Soccer coaches.

Soccer players--Hungary--Biography.

Soccer players.

Jews--Hungary--Biography.

Jews.

Holocaust survivors.

Hungary.

Europe.

Holocaust survivors--Hungary--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

London : Biteback Publishing Ltd, [2017]

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.

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.

Notes:

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

ISBN:

9781785901393

1785901397

OCLC:

988851721

Publisher Number:

99972303198