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Béla Guttmann
Hungarian football player and manager
1899 – 1981aged 82
A Hungarian footballer turned coach who survived deportation to a Nazi slave labor camp during the occupation of Hungary, then rebuilt a managerial career across ten countries. At Benfica he guided the club to back-to-back European Cup titles in 1961 and 1962, becoming the first coach to win the tournament in consecutive years with two different clubs, and helped popularize the attacking 4-2-4 formation alongside fellow Hungarian innovators Gusztáv Sebes and Márton Bukovi.