The Forgotten Cup tells the colourful story of the Mitropa Cup, the
inter-war equivalent of today's Champions League. One of the most
prestigious football stages of the era - along with the World Cup, which
was first played in 1930 - it was a tournament to determine the kings of
Europe at the end of a round-robin competition. European football at the
highest level was dominated by Italian and Danubian teams - Austrian,
Hungarian and Czechoslovakian - and would remain so until the end of the
Second World War. The top teams of the time have now fallen into
oblivion, and the exploits of Europe's football stars are largely
forgotten. Matthias Sindelar, Karel Pesek 'Kád'a, Giuseppe Meazza,
György Sárosi and Josef Bican along with a few others were the icons of
a sport that had just turned professional, born out of the frictions of
a politically heated era with an atmosphere that reverberated on the
pitch. The Forgotten Cup takes us back to that lost age.