Alexander Szatmari

Alexander Szatmari
Personnel
Surname	Alexander Stefan Szatmari
birthday	March 9, 1952
place of birth	Oradea ,  Romania
size	186 cm
position	Defense
Juniors
Years	station
1962-1969	Crișul Oradea
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1969-1971	Crișul Oradea	46 0(8)
1971-1979	Dinamo Bucharest	193 (17)
1980-1982	VfB Stuttgart	32 0(3)
1982-1984	Fort Lauderdale Strikers	35 0(0)
1984-1985	FSV Salmrohr
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1974-1988	Romania	30 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1989-1992	Eintracht Trier
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander Stefan Szatmári (born March 9, 1952 in Oradea , Romania ) is a former Romanian - German football player , coach and functionary . He was also called Alexandru Sătmăreanu by the Romanian sports press in order to reduce the number of Hungarian names in match reports.

Career

Alexander Szatmári is the son of a Hungarian father and a German mother. He grew up in Romania and began playing football at Crișul Oradea at the age of ten and was coached by Gusztáv Juhász , among others . On September 21, 1969, the seventeen-year-old was used for the first time in Divizia A as a right defender in the away game of the first team at AS Armata Târgu Mureş . Due to his good performances at the club and in the country's youth selections, he drew the attention of Traian Ionescu , the coach of Dinamo Bucharest . Despite linguistic communication difficulties with Szatmari's parents, Ionescu managed to get the young player to the capital in 1971 by sparing Szatmari military service and promising him a place at university. As an active member of Dinamo, he won the Romanian championship three times in 1973, 1975 and 1977 alongside fellow players Alexandru Custov , Cornel Dinu , Florea Dumitrache , Dudu Georgescu and Radu Nunweiller and was runner-up in 1974, 1976 and 1979.

When Romania failed to qualify for the 1978 World Cup, Szatmari's hopes of moving abroad were also dashed. At the UEFA Cup match in Dinamo Bucharest at Eintracht Frankfurt on November 7, 1979, he sat down during a walk from his club team and on November 9, 1979 applied for political asylum in the Federal Republic of Germany. Since Szatmári had a German mother, naturalization did not cause any difficulties. In February 1981 he got a German passport, but was not allowed to enter Romania before the revolution of 1989 because he had been sentenced to ten years in prison in absentia.

Immediately after the escape, the Romanian Football Association obtained a one-year ban on the player from UEFA , so that a transfer to Bayern Munich did not take place. Szatmári initially kept fit with the second division Kickers Offenbach until he was allowed to play for the Bundesliga club VfB Stuttgart from January 1981 . He played 32 times in the Bundesliga until 1982 , before moving to the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in the North American Soccer League in April 1982 . He ended his career at FSV Salmrohr in 1985 .

Then Szatmári settled in Trier and opened two leather goods stores. He also began to get involved with the local Eintracht , which played in the third-rate football league Southwest . He was a coach from 1989 to 1992 and then president of the club until 1996. During his tenure as a coach in 1991, his compatriot Anton Weissenbacher was also engaged .

In addition, Szatmári bought a wood processing factory in Hungary , which he sold in 2005, but which increasingly led him to travel to his hometown Oradea . At the end of August 2005 he was proposed by the priest Ludovic Sandor, the vice-president of the second division club FC Bihor Oradea , to take over the management of the club. After a few weeks of reflection and the dismissal of the previous officer Marcel Iancu on September 27, 2005, he took up the office of president of the association on October 18, 2005. With the support of Emerich Jenei , who had held the office until May 31, 2005 and whom he hired as technical director in February 2006, he managed to lead the club to second place in the table at the end of the 2005/06 season . In the relegation games, which entitled to promotion to Divizia A, FC Bihor Oradea could not then prevail against Unirea Urziceni and Forex Brașov . Szatmari's term of office ended on June 27, 2006, but from July 2006 the transfer policy led to investigations by the public prosecutor's office. Szatmári was accused of having damaged the club financially by ceding the marketing rights of a player like Dorin Mihuț to the company of his business partner Ionel Codoban, which was significantly below value. Mihuț was then given to Dinamo Bucharest in January 2006 and a similar procedure was also carried out with Cosmin Vâtcă , Daniel Stan and Ramses Gado , who switched to the first division club Oțelul Galați for a total of 70,000 euros in the same period . In addition, Szatmari's remuneration would have been the highest in the club's history and would not have been approved by the general meeting of shareholders. But their members have also enriched themselves at the expense of FC Bihor Oradea by issuing overpriced hotel and food bills and by significantly exceeding the budget for players' salaries and accommodation. Szatmári denied the fraud allegations, which were later converted into abuse of office by the investigating authorities, and in turn demanded a loan of 100,000 euros from the club, which he had granted in February 2006 in return for the marketing rights of seven other players. After Szatmári traveled back from Germany in January 2007 to put his testimony on the record, the results of the investigation were confirmed again in March 2007, but in January 2009 Szatmári was acquitted of all allegations. The ruling regarding the repayment of his loan to the association was announced for February 4, 2009. On July 30, 2009, Gheorghe Alexandrescu, the new president of FC Bihor Oradea, made it clear that the club still owed Szatmári RON 350,000 , but that this amount was only one sixth of the club's total debt.

National team

Szatmári was 16 times in the Romanian youth team and played 20 games for the junior national team and 30 senior international matches. He made his debut in the Romanian national team on July 23, 1974, when he came on for captain Cornel Dinu in the friendly against Japan .

successes

• Romanian champion: 1973, 1975, 1977

Others

Alexander Szatmári is not related to Lajos Sătmăreanu , who also played in the Romanian national team and was under contract with Steaua Bucharest , among others . Vasile Sere, the sports reporter on whom the Romanization of the two player names is due, also chose the name Sătmăreanu II for Alexander Szatmári to distinguish him from Lajos.

literature

• Mihai Ionescu, Răzvan Toma, Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 320 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DIN NOU ACASĂ ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 7, 2012 (Romanian)
2. ↑ Volksfreund of December 5, 2010 , accessed on January 8, 2012
3. ↑ Romania 2005/06 (English)
4. ↑ Bihoreanul of August 15, 2006 , accessed January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
5. ↑ Gazeta de Bistrița ( Memento of March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
6. ↑ Oradea Online , accessed January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
7. ↑ Szatmári si FC Bihor asteapta sentinta ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
8. ↑ Ilegalitatile de la FC Bihor, confirmate de Camera de Conturi ( memento of September 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
9. ↑ Scos de sub urmarire penala »» Szatmári asteapta scuze ( Memento of September 7, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
10. ↑ Realitatea Bihoreană from January 29, 2009 ( Memento from December 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
11. ↑ ProSport of July 31, 2009 , accessed on January 10, 2012 (Romanian)
12. ↑ Romania National Team 1970–1979 - details (English)

Web links

• Alexander Szatmári in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Alexander Szatmári in the database of weltfussball.de