Antal Dunai

Antal Dunai , also Antal Dujmov and Dunai II (born March 21, 1943 in Gara , Hungary ) is a former Hungarian football player and football coach .

Club career

Dunai started at Bajai Bácska Posztó in his hometown with organized football at the age of ten and moved to the then first division club Pécsi Dózsa SC in 1961 , where he made his league debut and was sixth in the scorers' list in his first season. In the following years he was one of the most successful attackers in the league, but the Pécs did not get beyond places in the midfield of the Hungarian championship and so Dunai moved to Újpesti Dózsa SC in 1965 , where he played alongside star striker Ferenc Bene .

In 1967 the Budapesters won the title of runner-up and Dunai was not only the Hungarian top scorer with 36 goals, but also the most successful striker in Europe (he was denied the golden shoe award as it was only introduced in 1968). In the following year, Újpest had to admit defeat to the Ferencvárosi Torna Club , but had the best attack in the league with 102 goals and the three most successful goal scorers with Dunai, Bene and László Fazekas . In 1969 the violets were finally able to win the championship title and also reach the final in the Exhibition City Cup , where they failed at Newcastle United .

In the following years, Újpest was the dominant team in Hungarian football and won seven championship titles in a row and three cup wins by 1975. In 1977 Dunai left the club and was still two years at Debreceni Vasutas SC before he hung on for another season in 1979/80 at the lower-class Budapest district club Chinoin SC . In the end he was released abroad and in 1981 played a little with the Austrian second division club 1. Simmeringer SC .

Stations

• 1961–1965: Pécsi Dózsa SC
• 1965–1977: Újpesti Dózsa SC
• 1977-1979: Debreceni Vasutas SC
• 1979-1980: Chinoin SC
• 1981: 1st Simmeringer SC

National team

Dunai was part of the Hungarian selection that took part in the Olympic Games in Mexico and won the gold medal by beating Bulgaria 4-1 , where he was used in all games and scored six goals.

Dunai made his first appearance in the national team in an official international match in May 1969 against Czechoslovakia , where he immediately scored a goal. In the following years he was part of the regular line-up of the national team and also appeared regularly as a goal scorer.

In 1972 he took part again with the Hungarians in the Olympic Games and reached the final again, but this time the Magyars failed against the Polish national football team . Once again, Dunai was used in all games and scored seven goals, taking second place in the list of goalscorers behind Polish legend Kazimierz Deyna and level with Joachim Streich from the GDR.

He played his last game for Hungary in 1973 against the GDR . In total, he came to 31 missions and nine goals.

Coaching career

After working in the junior division at Újpest, Dunai began his coaching career in Spain, where he was in charge of Deportivo Xerez , Betis Sevilla , CD Castellón , Real Murcia and UD Levante in the 1980s . Between his Spanish positions he was once a coach at Zalaegerszegi TE FC in his home country. In 1991 he finally returned to Hungary and trained Veszprémi SE before he took over the Hungarian Olympic team and led to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, where they were eliminated without any points in the group stage.

After another coaching activity at Debrecen, he was responsible for the youth teams at the Hungarian Association and at the same time held a leading position in the Ministry of Sports. In 2006 he became Vice President of the Hungarian Football Association, responsible for technical matters. He is also a member of the technical and scientific committee of the Hungarian NOC.

Stations

• 1978 to 1979: Újpest Budapest
• 1981 to 1982: Deportivo Xerez
• 1982: Betis Sevilla
• 1983 to 1985: CD Castellón
• 1986: Zalaegerszegi TE
• 1987: Real Murcia
• 1987 to 1988: Real Murcia
• 1990 to 1991: UD Levante
• 1991: Veszprémi SE
• 1996 to 1997: Debreceni VSC

successes

• Olympic champion: 1968
• Second at the Olympic Games: 1972
• 7 × Hungarian champions: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975
• 3 × Hungarian Cup winners: 1969, 1971, 1975
• 3 × Hungary's top scorer: 1967, 1968, 1970
• 1 × top scorer in the trade fair city cup: 1969 (9 goals)
• 1 v top scorer European Cup of national champions: 1972 (5 goals)
• Silver Shoe Winner: 1968
• Bronze Shoe Winner: 1969
• Exhibition City Cup: Final 1969
• European Cup of National Champions: semi-finals 1974
• 31 games and nine goals for the Hungarian national football team

Web links

• Antal Dunai in the database of weltfussball.de
• Antal Dunai in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )