Puskás also expressed deep affection for Sebes, whom he described as one of the most genuine and honest people he’d ever known and “the real heart and head of that golden team.” Yet when it came to following Sebes’s instructions, Puskás made it clear that he had a mind of his own. “He was a street footballer from small childhood,” said Les Murray, a Hungarian-born soccer journalist. “He had not much time for coaching or coaches. He once told me that every time Sebes would go through this ritual of drawing all sorts of squares and diagrams on the blackboard in the dressing room before a game,
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