Magical Magyars : The Rise and Fall of the World's Once Greatest Football Team Hardback
by David Bailey
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Magical Magyars tells the remarkable story of the legendary Hungarian football team of the 50s, a side whose breathtaking technical skills and passing-and-movement style of play changed the very way the sport was played.
Author David Bailey traces the team's origins and details how communist Hungary, a tiny nation impoverished and subjugated by one of the most brutal Stalinist regimes in the Soviet empire, was able to produce a football team that was the envy of the sporting world, and so very nearly world champions.
Captained by the genius that was Ferenc Puskas, the Magical Magyars walked a tightrope between being the regime's darlings and providing the beleaguered Hungarian people with a sense of national pride during their darkest days.
The team enthralled, dominated and revolutionised world football - until its own demise was brought about by a revolution of a different kind.
Weaving in threads of friendship and betrayal, tactics and politics, the quest for glory and upheaval, here is a football story quite unlike any other.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:22/07/2019
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- ISBN:9781785315442
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:320 pages, Illustrations, unspecified
- Publisher:Pitch Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date:22/07/2019
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- ISBN:9781785315442