SOCCER PLAYER

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Béla Guttmann has received more than 506,486 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Béla Guttmann is the 80th most popular soccer player (down from 57th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Hungary (down from 59th 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 80 out of 21,273Before him are Miguel Muñoz, Gordon Banks, Rivaldo, Neymar, Giacinto Facchetti, and Paul Breitner. After him are Bobby Moore, Rudi Völler, Rob Rensenbrink, Kurt Hamrin, Bebeto, and Carlos Queiroz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Béla Guttmann ranks 20Before him are Duke Ellington, Francis Poulenc, Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia, Miguel Ángel Asturias, Adnan Menderes, and Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski. After him are Albert Claude, Paul Hermann Müller, Erich Kästner, George Cukor, Paul-Henri Spaak, and Gustav Heinemann. Among people deceased in 1981, Béla Guttmann ranks 16Before him are Hideki Yukawa, William Holden, William Wyler, Hans Adolf Krebs, Odd Hassel, and Eugenio Montale. After him are René Clair, Joe Louis, Omar Bradley, Harold Urey, Mohammad-Ali Rajai, and Marcel Breuer.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Béla Guttmann ranks 63 out of 1,077Before him are Anne of Bohemia and Hungary (1503), George de Hevesy (1885), John Sigismund Zápolya (1540), Arthur Koestler (1905), Ladislaus IV of Hungary (1262), and László Moholy-Nagy (1895). After him are László Sólyom (1942), Karl Mannheim (1893), Andrew I of Hungary (1010), Elizabeth of Bosnia (1340), Ferenc Molnár (1878), and Géza II of Hungary (1130).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Béla Guttmann ranks 5Before 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), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), György Sárosi (1912), and Gyula Lóránt (1923).