Árpád Belko

Árpád Belko
Personnel
birthday	November 29, 1910
place of birth	Nagyszombat ,  Austria-Hungary
size	175 cm
position	Left winger
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1930-1932	Sabaria FC	43 (13)
1932-1935	Antibes FC	65 (34)
1935-1938	FC Sochaux	23 0(6)
1938-1939	SR Colmar	12 0(3)
1945-1947	Antibes FC	32 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.

Árpád Belko (born November 29, 1910 in Nagyszombat , Austria-Hungary , † unknown) was a French football player of Hungarian origin.

Career

The 175 centimeter tall striker , who was mainly called up on the left wing , began playing football at a club from Szombathely ; for this he ran from 1930 on in the highest Hungarian league and scored a total of 13 goals as a regular player in two years. However, he could not prevent his team from being relegated in 1932. He himself left his home country in the same year and moved to France.

In France in 1932 he was one of the co-founders of the newly created professional league Division 1 , which represented the highest national league; the Hungarian was in the squad of Olympique Antibes , which took the name FC Antibes a year later. On September 11, 1932 he made his debut on the first day of the new division and was also on the field in all 17 other games. Seven goals in his first season were followed by fourteen successes in the course of the 1933/34 season, which earned him tenth place on the top scorer list. A year later there were thirteen goals that aroused the interest of the reigning champions FC Sochaux ; this took the player in 1935 under contract. At Antibes he was remembered as the best first division shooter in the history of the club with 34 goals.

Belko, who was nicknamed Bébé Cadum based on a soap brand for childlike facial features , did not get beyond irregular stakes at his new club. In the season 1937/38 he reached the championship with Sochaux and thus his only national title, but was only involved with one use at a time when substitutions and substitutions were not possible. In 1938 he left Sochaux and at the same time the first division, in which he had played 88 games and scored 40 goals.

He signed with the second division club SR Colmar in the same year . However, his involvement there was short-lived, as the game was paralyzed in 1939 with the beginning of World War II . Because Belko, who had married a French woman, had taken French citizenship, he went to war for his new home and was captured. However, he was able to return and resumed his career in 1945 when he signed with the now second-rate FC Antibes. He could not prevent his club from falling into the third division in 1947 and ended his career at the same time at the age of 36. A call to the national team was denied to him in both Hungary and France.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arpad Belko - Fiche et stats du joueur de football , pari-et-gagne.com
2. ↑ Arpád Belko complete profile ( Memento from August 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), soccerdatabase.eu