Captivating stories from the world of football that you won’t want to keep to yourself! This incredible collection will take you through the years of football’s rise, telling the most astonishing stories from the lives of the great football coaches of the 20th century. Their invaluable contribution and love for their craft “changed the rules of the game” and made football the way you know and love it today.
Who was that master of offside and set pieces who created an ultra-successful and ultra-ruthless Argentine team that even “Ajax” and “Bavaria” refused to fight for the Intercontinental Cup? Which football mentor, who gave Spain tiki-taka and beat “Barcelona” 12:1, was actually from Britain? Does a curse exist of the most successful coach in history of “Benfica,” keeping it from winning European titles for 60 years? Do you know what famous speech an Italian made at a post-match press conference—in German—and how it spread into aphorisms? Which lucky coach had the chance to work with both Messi and Maradona? And finally, have you ever heard of a coach who, over his career, worked with half a hundred teams across five continents, happily avoiding genocide, death for having ties with a spy—and taught cannibals how to play football?