HH: Helenio Herrera – Football’s Original Master of the Dark Arts
Autor Richard Fitzpatricken Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 feb 2026
'A gripping, unsettling and authoritative portrait of football's original dark genius - brilliantly researched and superbly told.' - GUILLEM BALAGUÉ
A wonderfully compelling biography... This is a story that, once read, you can't forget.' - DUNCAN HAMILTON, THREE-TIME WILLIAM HILL AWARD WINNER
'What a character. A deeply disturbed, malevolent, brilliant man... A superb book. I absolutely loved it.' - PAUL HOWARD, FIVE-TIME IRISH BOOK AWARD WINNER
Nicknamed 'Il Mago' (The Wizard) after bringing European Cup glory to Inter Milan in successive years, Helenio Herrera was hailed as one of the finest minds in football.
This explosive book explores the enigma of the incredibly charismatic 'HH': a philanderer, charlatan, trash-talker and serial winner mired in controversy. His stellar career was halted by the death of one of his star players and his subsequent trial for manslaughter.
'HH' revolutionised football coaching. Preparing his teams meticulously, he was obsessed with his players' mental toughness and introduced idiosyncratic psychological techniques. He made his name as a coach, winning La Liga twice with both Atlético Madrid and Barcelona, but it was his move to Inter in 1960 that propelled him to stardom. His team won three scudetti in the mid-1960s and were only denied a third European Cup by Jock Stein's Celtic in 1967.
HH reveals how Herrera was the original master of the game's dark arts. In Spain he introduced a regime of performance-enhancing drugs, and he continued this practice in Italy, which eventually led to his downfall.
Featuring interviews with those who knew Herrera well - including Fabio Capello, Sandro Mazzola, Ian St John and Denis Law - HH is a fascinating story of deceit and intrigue, bloodshed, sex and glorious football.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781399425100
ISBN-10: 1399425102
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1399425102
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 153 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Prologue
I Rise (1910-58)
1. A Disease of the Bones
2. Good Men Who Lost Their Way
3. Scent of Cut Flowers
II: Barça (1958-60)
4. Thou Shalt Not Kill
5. Crazy About Money
6. People Should Talk About You Even if It Is Good
7. The Face You Saw Everywhere
8. Their Tongues Were "Dirty"
9. Sodom and Gomorrah
10. A Cancer in the Team
11. Barça of the Hungarians
12. Speed
13. Don Santiago
14. "He Could Have Played With a Tuxedo On."
15. A Murder of Crows
III: Inter (1960-68)
16. The Sweet Life
17. Angel With a Dirty Face
18. Great White Nights
19. Team of a Million Stars
20. When a Bad Man Behaves Well
21. Medici
22. Vienna
23. "There Is a Small Annoyance."
24. "Made it, Ma! Top of the World!"
25. Voices in the Head
26. Man in the Middle
27. A Ninth Circle of Hell
28. Szobel's Show Girls
29. The Pits
30. Cooked
IV: Roma (1968-70)
31. The Red Lady
32. "How Can an Athlete Die Like That?"
33. Tuscany
34. Inquest
Epilogue
Dramatis personae
I Rise (1910-58)
1. A Disease of the Bones
2. Good Men Who Lost Their Way
3. Scent of Cut Flowers
II: Barça (1958-60)
4. Thou Shalt Not Kill
5. Crazy About Money
6. People Should Talk About You Even if It Is Good
7. The Face You Saw Everywhere
8. Their Tongues Were "Dirty"
9. Sodom and Gomorrah
10. A Cancer in the Team
11. Barça of the Hungarians
12. Speed
13. Don Santiago
14. "He Could Have Played With a Tuxedo On."
15. A Murder of Crows
III: Inter (1960-68)
16. The Sweet Life
17. Angel With a Dirty Face
18. Great White Nights
19. Team of a Million Stars
20. When a Bad Man Behaves Well
21. Medici
22. Vienna
23. "There Is a Small Annoyance."
24. "Made it, Ma! Top of the World!"
25. Voices in the Head
26. Man in the Middle
27. A Ninth Circle of Hell
28. Szobel's Show Girls
29. The Pits
30. Cooked
IV: Roma (1968-70)
31. The Red Lady
32. "How Can an Athlete Die Like That?"
33. Tuscany
34. Inquest
Epilogue
Dramatis personae
Recenzii
A wonderfully compelling biography of someone so unbelievably eccentric and darkly maverick that no fiction writer would dare invent him. This is a story that, once read, you can't forget.
A brilliantly captivating book - breathlessly paced and teeming with detail - about the life and times of a man who makes José Mourinho look like Mother Teresa.
HH - what a character. A deeply disturbed, malevolent, brilliant man... A superb book. I absolutely loved it.
A transfixing, twisting documentary of a book as befits the Herrera story. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, like all great football books it goes way beyond the game
Richard Fitzpatrick has finally written the book we've all been waiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told.
Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football
Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man.
A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football's most enigmatic figures.
A brilliantly captivating book - breathlessly paced and teeming with detail - about the life and times of a man who makes José Mourinho look like Mother Teresa.
HH - what a character. A deeply disturbed, malevolent, brilliant man... A superb book. I absolutely loved it.
A transfixing, twisting documentary of a book as befits the Herrera story. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, like all great football books it goes way beyond the game
Richard Fitzpatrick has finally written the book we've all been waiting to read - about the man Gabriel García Márquez called "His Holiness". A brilliant story; brilliantly told.
Helenio Herrera insisted his catenaccio system - which gave us the sweeper - should be attractive, with full-backs overlapping and joining attacks. Yet it was perceived as cautious and defensive. It was also hugely successful and Richard Fitzpatrick, a fine story teller and diligent journalist, unpicks this fascinating man who changed football
Helenio Herrera - HH, so complex they named him twice. A man from everywhere and nowhere, who took football somewhere it had never been before, setting the framework - good and bad - for much of what has come since. With the manic determination of HH himself, Richard Fitzpatrick has hurled himself into a quest to educate and entertain us with the life and times of this extraordinary man.
A fascinating book about a fascinating man. Richard Fitzpatrick has eloquently captured one of football's most enigmatic figures.