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Names Heard Long Ago: Shortlisted for Football Book of the Year, Sports Book Awards

Names Heard Long Ago: Shortlisted for Football Book of the Year, Sports Book Awards

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From the author of Inverting the Pyramid, a tour de force revealing the secret history of modern football.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 05 March 2020
Publisher: Bonnier Books Ltd

SHORTLISTED FOR FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR, SPORTS BOOK AWARDS

'Beautifully written and immaculately researched. Jonathan Wilson is the finest sports writer of his generation'
Peter Frankopan, author of The Silk Roads

In 1953, the Mighty Magyars beat England 6-3 at Wembley, a result that echoes through the history of football. A year earlier, this Hungarian team had won Olympic gold. A year later, they lost agonisingly in the final of a World Cup that they dominated. This is the beginning, middle and end of Hungarian football in the popular imagination.

Only, how come the ideas from this team spread around the world? Why do Hungarian managers spring up in Italy, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, across Europe and the Americas, bringing their secrets with them? And what are the incredible stories they have to tell, of escaping the Nazis and the Soviet communists?

How did the history of modern football come to be born in the Budapest coffeehouses of the early twentieth century?

Fifteen years in the making, this new book from bestselling football historian Jonathan Wilson is the missing piece of the jigsaw; the forgotten story in football's history, lost in war, in revolution, in death and tragedy.

Weight: 308g
Dimension: 129 x 196 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781788702997

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