There are places on Earth so beautiful as to leave you breathless indiscriminately anyone who is fortunate enough to observe them closely, there are others - perhaps less attractive - in the eyes of certain people seem even better than the night view of Bergamo Alta because they have the inestimable power to bring to mind nostalgic memories as pleasant and, finally, there are others (Auschwitz, in the case of the story that will tell) in which the joys and rewards of the recent past but are not able to soothe the anxiety that absorbs a man when he accidentally becomes the star of such places . The interpreter of this story - a man who distinguished by his keen intelligence, as one of the most talented football and technical preparations for the period between two terrible wars that have shaken the civilization of the twentieth century - is one of more than seventy million victims swept away by the bloody World War II: Arpad Weisz, mild Hungarian 1896 class, skilled globetrotters came to train in the beautiful country after some elapsed from midfielder mid-level home, Czechoslovakia, Uruguay and Italy itself.
son of Jewish parents, Weisz - whose last name was often in the Italianate Veisz, according to the self-sufficient command of the time - began his career as a coach on the bench for Inter 1926 / '27, just months after being played in a league mean of satisfaction for him and for the Milan club, from there a short renamed Ambrosiana by fascist who thought the word sounded too xenophile International. The coach showed Magyar immediately noticeable quality and innovation, but nevertheless the team had to wait for the Inter season 1929 / '30 to celebrate third title of its history, came in the first tournament round only. A tournament that, thanks to goals scored thirty-one, bore the signature at the bottom of his star for excellence that helped him become champion Giuseppe Meazza absolutely complete by the forward-looking trainer of Budapest, which requires the plaintive aims to train youth to a greater extent than mates because, review of Weisz, from the first touch, the slender "Pepin" had shown to be much more than others. Tricolor, however, was achieved also thanks to the talent of people like the charismatic striker Leopoldo Conti, Enrico Rivolta Far defender midfielder Valentino Degani, said "Salterello" or "Panther" for recklessly acrobatic style (perhaps the founder of what would eventually be the great tradition of the Beloved in terms of goalkeepers and it would have culminated with the formidable Giorgio Ghezzi and Walter Zenga). Behind the scenes of that success, to highlight talent and confidential, but there was Mr. Arpad: the man became a preacher of a kick, the Danube, which in those days was at the top.
In 1934, the Inter left after six seasons almost always top the Hungarian engineer arrived in Bologna, where he will find occasion to write other significant pages of sports team by setting up a spectacular game and throwing promettentissimi athletes rossoblù conquer with two consecutive championships (1936 and 1937) and probably would have won even if one third, in October 1938, he had fled in haste to the capital of Emilia following the imposition of racial laws promulgated by Mussolini. For the family Weisz was the beginning of the end, the flight seemed like the only way to salvation. Coach jew took refuge with his wife and two children, first in Paris and later in a Dutch citizen, Dordrecht, where he managed yet another wonder: taking the local amateur club to pursue outstanding results, such as being able to the importance of defeating a team Feyenoord. But it was
swan song, the sad ending unfortunately appeared as imminent as a result of the German occupation of the Netherlands, the Weisz were deported to death camps at Auschwitz, where atrocious half the antechamber of death was losing its name to become a miserable and depressing number.
(Published on 15/02/2008 in the magazine Weekly Sportfoglio )
Arpad Weisz
Born in Budapest (Hungary) on 16/09/1896
Midfielder (later coach)
at Inter from 1925 to 1926 (as player) and, except for the seasons 1928 / '29 and 1931 / '32, 1926-1934 (as coach) Total attendance
-goals: 10-3
wins as a coach: 1 title (1929 / '30)
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