Editing Felix Magath (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Hund,Isabel Magath,Felix 1985 Hamburg.jpg|thumb|right|Magath in 1985]]
Magath is the son of a Puerto Rican former soldier in the [[United States Army]] stationed in Aschaffenburg and a German mother.<ref name="suite101.de">{{cite web | url = http://suite101.de/article/felix-magath-eine-biografie-des-erfolges-und-der-kritik-a107261 | title = Felix Magath: eine Biografie des Erfolges und der Kritik | language = de | publisher = suite101.de | date = 4 July 2013 | access-date = 4 May 2014 | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140504224833/http://suite101.de/article/felix-magath-eine-biografie-des-erfolges-und-der-kritik-a107261 | archive-date = 4 May 2014}}</ref> In 1954, Magath's father abandoned Magath and his mother to return to his homeland.<ref name="suite101.de" /> The adolescent Magath first heard from his father when he was 15 years old, after he wrote a letter to Puerto Rico.<ref name="suite101.de" />

Magath is also a chess enthusiast, an interest which he developed during the [[World Chess Championship 1978|1978 World Chess Championship]] while he was bedridden due to [[hepatitis]].<ref>{{cite web|title=This season's dark horses|url=http://espnfc.com/columns/story?id=279854&root=europe&cc=5739|first=Uli|last=Hesse-Lichtenberger|publisher=ESPN|date=8 October 2003|access-date=15 June 2013}}</ref> In 1985, he played in a [[simultaneous exhibition]] against [[Garry Kasparov]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Partien zugleich: 10 Sekunden pro Zug|url=http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-13514177.html|newspaper=Der Spiegel|language=de|access-date=15 June 2013|date=10 June 1985}}</ref>