Bentex, granted, I'll wire you the funds to your PayPal account for shipping. Now this is a DVD right and I can play it well on any conventional media player? I definitely need more info on his career to finish 'da work'.
Here's what I've written about Puskas so far:
Twice World Player of the Year (1952, 1953), Ferenc Puskás often enters the conversation of where the greatest footballers ought to be lodged in the pantheon of the last 100 years. The ever engaging and personable Ferenc Puskás was the most powerful striker Europe ever produced at 1st division football. He was also the greatest goalscoring international who ever lived. Undoubtedly, the most renowned and greatest of Hungarian sportsmen, he is likely in company with Harry Houdini and Ernő Rubik who lent his name to the iconic Rubik's Cube, for being the most famous Hungarian citizen of the 20th Century.
In a difficult rebuilding world of the postwar era, in the arc light and formative glow of nascent mass media with a global reach and enhanced telecommunications, increasingly networked news wires and live television coverage that meet audiences as never before, Puskás was football's first superstar both club level and in the world game predating the likes of Alfredo Di Stéfano, Pelé, Johan Cruijff, Diego Maradona, and Zinedine Zidane.
Oft-likened short, he was of modest proportions, rotund with muscular billiard ball table legs and average in-line speed but with deceptive bursting acceleration. Puskás never did acclimate to using his non dominant right foot for much except to dribble and scored few goals with his head. But he more than made up with an on-field generalship and a deep cerebral reading of the game. He had a keen footballing brain to match his otherworldly accuracy. He had intuition with extra sensory perception to soundly grasp other sides' nuances with novel thinking in less than 15 minutes of play by issuing a stream of instructions to orient his team. He exhibited a precocious talent at an early age making the national team all of 18 as a supreme possessor with a capering dribble and heroic scoring indulgence on the ball. He is alleged to have been blessed with the most powerful drive ever cast from a left foot — detonating an exclusive leaden snapshot that deftly tore through defenses with remarkable precision. Much of Hungary's goalscoring largess as seen by many came by way of Puskás' on-field influence, who scored a world record 514 1st division goals and a total sum 1176 goals in a 24-year career.
As the oft-loquacious captain of Hungary, a great deal of their succcess located Puskás to be the center of most things involving the team as a sharp operator off the field and on with a mental grasp of public relations inside one of the most repressive Stalinist regimes in Eastern Europe where political realities often meant life and death even to the most senior of politicians. Mentally he was far ahead of everybody on the field, and the indisputably great player was the prime mover and inspirer of an already great Hungarian side who pushed his team to unrivaled heights. Puskás was honored for being named the greatest 1st division goalscorer in the 20th century by the prestigious International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS) in 1995. Pelé was voted the most outstanding player of the century by the IFFHS with Puskás not far behind, ranking just behind Diego Maradona in the balloting.
Ferenc Puskás seemed to have a touch of Midas in him. Every team to which he was attached as a captain and player were eminently the best in the world that seemed to prosper immensely from his seniority. They profited from an elegant yet fiery competitor with out-going rough-diamond manners and a loud style who could seem to annex the most obdurate lines with expositions that sparkled nigh on goal. He was captain of mighty Budapest Honvéd (for whom the majority of the national team's players played at club level), and they were greatest club side before the emergence of Real Madrid C.F.. While there and in the national team, he was paired with the formidably talented and his near equal Sándor Kocsis that blossomed into an almost symbiotic partnership. Theirs was a story of two invincible heroes in their prime holding huge crowds in attention always seeming to move inexorably towards goal to drive in balls from all possible angles and distances. They were the greatest redoubtable scoring tandem who ever graced world football with 159 goals between them, vastly outpacing all those that came before or since to put in place records that would be everlasting.
Later estranged from his homeland for many a good reason, but due in part, to the reprisals that were the fallout of the failed Hungarian Revolution and what might have awaited him for his refusal to return from abroad, the unusually apolitical Puskás was adrift in exile. On the wrong side of 30 and serving a one-year ban from FIFA, the man of large and joyous appetites and a heart spent on goodwill, was now out of shape and thought to be in the twilight of his playing days. Soon he found himself in the employ of the greatest club side in the world, Real Madrid at the height of its powers, to begin a second consecutive and stunning double career.
At a time when players think of retirement, Puskás faced a daunting challenge of learning a new language in the distinct new world of Francisco Franco's Spain. But with the gift of confidence and the right mental attitude too, Puskás soon endeared himself to everyone around him. Most importantly, he gelled with on-field boss and great Argentine star Alfredo Di Stéfano, who was never the easiest man to know, temperamental cheek being part of his charm. Winning 5 Spanish championships along with way, Puskás again became a relevation, a four-time Pichichi Trophy Spanish league-leading incandescent forward in legendary communion with Di Stéfano to form the basis for the greatest double act (as had been the earlier case with Kocsis) world club football has ever seen. While at Read Madrid, Puskás was considered the indispensable man of campaigns that saw Real Madrid win three UEFA European Championships and enlisted his help to be finalists another two times.
As a player who was never bought or sold in his life, Puskás spent his entire career at the very top of his profession that seemed to raise his game to a sublime level. He was central to the heart of football history itself, being involved in three of the most discussed matches of all-time: the England vs. Hungary (1953) (where he scored twice), 1954 World Cup Final, where he scored once and had a picture perfect 87th minute poignant equalizer unpardonably called, and Eintracht Frankfurt vs. Real Madrid (the 1960 European Cup Final where he scored 4 goals in what has been called the greatest and most famous European club match in history). Puskás' count of 84 international goals in 85 games still is football's benchmark, unmatched by any top-flight player from the Americas, Europe, Australia, and Africa.
After the 1956 Uprising there were pockets of Hungarian expatriates in every major city in the West. While traveling with Real Madrid and beyond, he became a veritable consulate for members of these communities, ready to lend his support financial or otherwise, to those who were most in need. Therein lies a Horatio Alger tale of a charitable man and player rising to the pinnacle of the game that began from behind the Iron Curtain.
Hungary's native number one son arrived at almost all one could imagine in the sport from quantifiable stastistical effort and personal way. He was Olympic champion, Central European Champion, World Cup finalist, in addition to being the top goalscorer in the 20th century at 1st division football and the century’s top goalscorer at international level who is united to three UEFA Champions League (1959, 1960, 1966) titles, 10 national championship crowns (5 Hungarian Nemzeti Bajnokság & 5 Spanish Primera División) and 8 top individual scoring honors.
FIFA President Sepp Blatter had seen Puskás play in the 1954 FIFA World Cup Final in Berne. As a 18 year old Swiss journalist, Blatter was involved emotionally throughout the match as a supporting spectator of the Magyars. In homage to Puskás for what he represented on the field and for enduring personal virtues off of it, Blatter in 2009 founded an international award meant to ensure Puskás' memory for future generation of footballers. The annual FIFA Puskás Award is presented at the FIFA World Player of the Year Gala and is the only FIFA award named after a former player.
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