Gyula Grosics was a national sporting hero who tried to defect from Communist Hungary in 1949.
Playing football and ice hockey at high levels, one of his teams was disbanded by Josef Stalin.
On this day, 31 July, in 1919, Primo Levi was born in Turin, Italy. In his works about his experiences in the Shoah and afterwards, Levi recalls football on two occasions.
Football certainly has produced numerous incredible matches. Matches remembered forever because of mighty performances by the greatest players of all time or because of a heroic performance by an underdog.
Today 30 years ago in 1989 three players of the East German football club Wismut Aue were getting ready to escape from the DDR.
