Bela Guttman was the coach of Benfica football club during 1961 and 1962. Born in 1900, Guttman was a legendary Hungarian coach who led Portuguese power Benfica to two European Cup titles in the early 1960s.
After winning the old European Cup consecutively in 1961 and 1962, Guttmann approached the Benfica board of directors and asked for a pay rise, but, despite the success he had brought the club, he was turned down. On leaving Benfica he allegedly cursed the club, declaring “Not in a hundred years from now will Benfica ever win a European Cup”.
