Bela Gutmann: The Original Jose Mourinho
Tifo Football Podcast
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2018
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Joe is away on holiday and Josh Schneider-Weiler from Tifo's This Football Life fills in and talks to David Bulchover about his book, The Greatest Comeback, which chronicles the career and life of legendary manager Béla Guttmann.
As a manager, Guttmann won titles in Hungary, Brazil, and Portugal. He is most famous for winning back-to-back European Cups with Benfica in 1961 & 1962. He was a coaching pioneer and was ahead of his time in many ways (fitness, psychology etc.). He shares many similarities with Jose Mourinho and other modern-day managers and his imprints are littered throughout the game.
Listen to Bolchover discuss Guttman's remarkable transition from surviving the Holocaust to lifting Europe's most prestigious trophy.
The Book: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Greatest-Comeback-SHORTLISTED-WILLIAM-SPORTS/dp/1785901397
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| 0:00.0 | My name's Sharzad Kiade. I'm a Gemini Pescatarian, a mom of two wild little boys. I'm Susan Yara. I'm a mom of two also. This morning, I went to the bathroom alone. I woke up at five, put my boob in her mouth, and then she took a dump because that's what she uses me for. That's what you're going to hear a lot of our stories and experiences and our crazy journeys to motherhood. It's for all moms. |
| 0:22.9 | Not for all dads. Not fathers and moms. For all moms. It's going to be good all time. |
| 0:27.4 | You guys are going to want to stick around. Promise. So subscribe. I'm Joe Devine and welcome to the Tifo |
| 0:32.4 | Football Podcast. This is just a brief introduction to let you know that I am currently on holiday for a couple of weeks. |
| 0:40.5 | So Josh, from our other podcast, This Football Life, has kindly agreed to cover my absence for a couple of episodes. |
| 0:48.2 | And he's got two brilliant guests lined up. |
| 0:51.5 | The episodes sound really exciting. |
| 0:53.3 | So without further ado, I will leave him |
| 0:55.7 | to introduce what's happening today and also what's happening next week. But I hope you'll have a |
| 1:00.9 | lovely time and I will be back in a couple of weeks. So speak to you then. As Joe said, I'm Josh |
| 1:05.9 | Schneiderweiler from Tifo's This Football Life podcast and I'm happy to be hosting these two weeks while Joe is away on a holiday. |
| 1:13.2 | And like you guys, I'm going to miss his smooth melodic voice too. But the show must go on, |
| 1:18.6 | and for this week's episode, I chat with David Bolkiver, author of The Greatest Comeback, |
| 1:24.2 | which chronicles one of football's first coaching pioneers, Bella Gutman. |
| 1:28.9 | A brief background on Bella, he played in Austria, Hungary, and in the United States in the |
| 1:33.6 | 1920s, and then coached in Austria and Hungary in the 1930s. He then survived the Holocaust |
| 1:39.9 | in truly remarkable fashion before coaching in numerous countries, including Italy, Brazil, and |
| 1:46.1 | Portugal. He's most famous for being Benfica's manager when they won back-to-back European |
| 1:51.4 | Cups in 1961 and 1962. We discuss all of this and more on this week's episode of the TIFO |
| 1:59.4 | football podcast. I'm here with David Bolkiver, |
| 2:03.6 | author of The Greatest Comeback. David, how are you doing today? Very well, thank you. |
| 2:09.8 | In your book, you repeatedly compare Bella Gutman to Jose Marino many, many times. And I'm curious, how are they, how are the two similar? |
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