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Winners of the Egri Erbstein Tournament 2019

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he Egri Erbstein tournament is the return home, and donated it to Hungary’s
Teponymous competition established to amateur sides to compete for.
honour the pioneering Austro-Hungarian After the creation of the Egri Erbstein Tour-
empire born coach. Erbstein, who was Jew- nament, Corinthian-Casuals returned to
ish, had escaped the Holocaust, but tragical- Budapest in June this year to compete in
ly died four years after the war; along with the competition, the trip was financed from
the majority of the Torino team that he was money raised by fans in a GoFundMe appeal.
technical director of (they also formed the The side returned triumphantly back to Tol-
backbone of the national side), in the Super- worth with the silverware, beating Budapesti
ga air disaster, which occurred just outside of AK 3-0 and Testveriseg SE 1-0 in the final.
Turin on the 4th of May, 1949. There were no Erbstein: The triumph and tragedy of foot-
survivors from the crash. ball’s forgotten pioneer by Dominic Bliss is
The disaster brought a tragic end to the team available on Kindle priced £2.25
known as Grande Torino, who had won five
consecutive titles in the 1940s, including the
Serie A and Coppa Italia double in 1943. To-
rino didn’t win the Serie A again until the
1975/76 season.
Corinthian-Casuals had visited Budapest in
1904, creating The Corinthian Cup on their