The Blizzard: Benfica 5-3 Real Madrid, 1962
Football Ramble
Stak Production
4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Join Marcus Speller and Jonathan Wilson, this time alongside author and commentator David Bolchover, for another episode of Greatest Games, in association with The Blizzard. Today we’re heading back to 1962 to celebrate one of the most influential figures in 20th century football: Béla Guttmann. His Benfica side beat Real Madrid 5-3 in the 1962 European Cup final, and this extraordinary game was entirely reflective of an extraordinary man.
After arriving at Benfica, having won the league the season before with Porto, Guttmann immediately sacked twenty first team players. He then took Benfica to two Primeira Divisāo titles and a triumph in the previous European Cup, before meeting five-time winners Real Madrid in the 1962 final in Amsterdam. A thrilling, chaotic game featuring a Ferenc Puskás hat-trick finished 5-3 to Benfica, with Guttmann cementing himself as one of the finest coaches of any generation.
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| 0:00.0 | Hope you're enjoying another excellent |
| 0:02.0 | and let's face cerebral blizzard sure. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Pete Donaldson from The Rambl now. |
| 0:06.0 | I just want to say that if you are listening, |
| 0:08.0 | I'll do the show on Sunday the 6th of October. |
| 0:10.0 | We are playing Brighton, the theatre royal tonight. |
| 0:13.0 | So come down. |
| 0:14.0 | Rambllive.com for tickets. |
| 0:16.0 | Come and see us Brighton. |
| 0:17.0 | We'll have a right, Giggle. |
| 0:21.0 | I'm standing right now. |
| 0:23.0 | I'm going to push cars in the air. |
| 0:25.0 | I'm going to knock it. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah! |
| 0:30.0 | Good evening. |
| 0:32.0 | Was it then the most dangerous week in the history of mankind? |
| 0:35.0 | I suppose it was. |
| 0:37.0 | A little bit strange. |
| 0:39.0 | Moishok's ball! |
| 0:41.0 | Moishkass! |
| 0:42.0 | The dramatic Moscow boardcast of Mr. Kraschock's order |
| 0:46.0 | to disnamp all Russian Missile bases in Cuba |
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