Magical Maygars: The Rise and Fall of the World's Once Greatest Football Team

By David Bailey

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 Pusk s, 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1785315447
• ISBN13: 9781785315442
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"