Biteback Publishing The greatest comeback: from genocide to football glory: the story of bela guttmann, paperback/david bolchover

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Description 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 .