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Béla Guttmann

1899 - 1981

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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 Budapest FC, Hakoah Vienna, and several clubs in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Béla Guttmann is the 69th most popular soccer player (up from 80th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 63rd in 2019) and the 5th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Béla Guttmann is most famous for his work with Benfica and the Portuguese national team, where he won 11 league titles and two European Cups.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Béla Guttmann ranks 69 out of 21,273. Before him are Oliver Kahn, Flórián Albert, Francesco Totti, Silvio Piola, Alan Ball Jr., and Uwe Seeler. After him are Gianni Rivera, Billy Wright, Nílton Santos, Giacinto Facchetti, Arthur Friedenreich, and Fritz Walter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Béla Guttmann ranks 23. Before him are Albert Claude, Iskander Mirza, Fred Astaire, Paul Hermann Müller, Erich Kästner, and Miguel Ángel Asturias. After him are Georg von Békésy, Max Theiler, Suzanne Lenglen, Adnan Menderes, Gustav Heinemann, and Duke Ellington. Among people deceased in 1981, Béla Guttmann ranks 16. Before him are Soong Ching-ling, Max Euwe, Odd Hassel, Hideki Yukawa, William Wyler, and Harold Urey. After him are William Holden, Marcel Breuer, Max Delbrück, Karl Böhm, Natalie Wood, and A. J. Cronin.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Béla Guttmann ranks 65 out of 1,077. Before him are Stephen V of Hungary (1239), George Andrew Olah (1927), Emeric, King of Hungary (1174), Imre Lakatos (1922), Flórián Albert (1941), and Paul Erdős (1913). After him are Georg von Békésy (1899), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), Arthur Koestler (1905), Marcel Breuer (1902), Emeric Thököly (1657), and Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Béla Guttmann ranks 5. Before him are Ferenc Puskás (1927), Sándor Kocsis (1929), László Kubala (1927), and Flórián Albert (1941). After him are Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Zoltán Czibor (1929), József Bozsik (1925), Gyula Grosics (1926), György Sárosi (1912), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), and Lajos Tichy (1935).

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