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Béla Guttmann
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Hungarian football player and manager (1899–1981)
Key facts
- 1926
- Brooklyn Wanderers
- 1930
- New York Soccer Club
- 1945
- Vasas
- 1946
- Ciocanul București
- 1947
- Újpest
- 1953
- Quilmes
- Full name
- Béla Guttmann
- Date of birth
- ( 1899-01-27 ) 27 January 1899
- Place of birth
- Budapest , Austria-Hungary
- Date of death
- 28 August 1981 (1981-08-28) (aged 82)
- Place of death
- Vienna , Austria
- Position
- Centre-half
- 1917 1919
- Törekvés SE
- Years
- Team
- 1919 1920
- Törekvés SE
- 1921 1922
- MTK Hungária
- 1922 1926
- Hakoah Wien
- 1926 1929
- New York Giants
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Béla
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Vienna
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Participant in
- 1924 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- association football
- Position played
- defender
- Image
- Guttmann 1953 (cropped).JPG
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- Commons category
- Béla Guttmann
- date of birth
- 1899-01-27
- date of death
- 1981-08-28
- coach of sports team
- AC Milan
- end of work period
- 1932-00-00
- start of work period
- 1919-00-00
- name in native language
- Guttmann Béla
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Encyclopedic overview
Béla Guttmann ( Hungarian: [ˈbeːlɒ ˈɡutmɒnn]; 27 January 1899 – 28 August 1981) was a Hungarian footballer and coach. He was born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, and was Jewish. He was deported by the Nazis to a Nazi slave labor camp where he was tortured; he survived the Holocaust. Before the war, he played as a midfielder for MTK Hungária, Hakoah Vienna, and several clubs in the United States. Guttmann also played for the Hungary national team, including at the 1924 Olympic Games.
Guttmann coached in ten countries from 1933 to 1974, and won ten national championships and two consecutive European Cups with Benfica. He also coached the national teams of Hungary and Austria, having also coached club football in the Netherlands, Italy, Brazil, Uruguay, and Portugal. He is perhaps best remembered as a coach and manager after the war of AC Milan, São Paulo, Porto, Benfica and Peñarol. His greatest success came with Benfica when he guided them to two successive European Cup wins, in 1961 and in 1962.
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