The Wandering Genius

OTD E0301 — 28 Aug 1981: Béla Guttmann dies in Vienna. A Jewish Hungarian player, Holocaust survivor, tactical revolutionary and relentless football nomad, Guttmann carried Central European ideas around the world — through Vienna, New York, Brazil, Portugal and beyond. We trace Jimmy Hogan and the Hungarian coaching school, Guttmann’s unlikely connection to Imre Hirschl, his influence on Brazil’s 4–2–4, the discovery of Eusébio, Benfica’s back-to back European Cups — and why the famous “curse” may never have been spoken at all.

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