Managerial Legends

  Bela Guttman is credited with creating the cult of a manager. The Hungarian was a pioneer of his era and introduced many innovations to football management. Not one to remain at one club for a long time, he moved far and wide, but one thing remained constant: he left a legacy everywhere he went. The Hungarian began his management ...

Ottmar Hitzfeld is regarded as one of the greatest managers in the history of Bayern Munich as well as the greatest to have graced the German football. And rightly so. The German began his playing career with Swiss outfit FC Basel in 1971 and went on to feature in 92 league games for the club, scoring 66 goals as a ...

The likes of Manchester United and Liverpool would claim to be the biggest clubs on the British Isles, yet it was Celtic that became the first team from the island to become the champions of Europe. And their legendary manager Jock Stein had a lot to do with the fact. Stein took to football as escape from his tough life ...

Valeriy Lobanovskyi had an interesting vision of football. Plying his trade at the time when the Soviet Union was witnessing its greatest breakthroughs in science and technology, Lobanovskyi was positively affected by the scientific thinking prevalent in the Soviet society at the time. Lobanovskyi had a successful career as a player and turned out for Dynamo Kiev for over 200 ...

Helenio Herrera is quite rightly regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. He has become synonymous with his “catenaccio” Inter Milan side of the 1960s, but there is so much more to the manager, who was one of the early tactical pioneers. The Argentine began his managerial career in the 1940s and after managing a string of ...