Antal Szalay

Antal Szalay
Personnel
birthday	March 12, 1912
date of death	1960
position	Right runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1930-1940	Újpest Budapest
1940–	Quite TE
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1933-1939	Hungary	24 (?)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	ITA Arad
	FC Craiova
	US Carrarese
	Pro Patria Calcio
	St. George Budapest
1 Only league games are given.

Antal Szalay (born March 12, 1912 , † 1960 ) was a Hungarian soccer player and soccer coach who won four championship titles and the Mitropacup with Újpest FC in the 1930s and became vice world champion with the Hungarian national team in 1938 .

Club career

Szalay came in the 1930/31 season to his first missions in the combat team of Újpest in the top Hungarian league . Although he only made four championship games this year, he also won his first championship title. Then he was able to oust the Hungarian national player Ferenc Borsányi from the team in the position of right runner and by the time the Violets celebrated their next championship title in 1933, he had long since become a regular.

Szalay's strengths included his positional play, as well as his technical skills and his passing game. At the side of György Szűcs , he was a permanent member of the team from the fourth district of Budapest in the 1930s. In 1935 the team, which also included László Sternberg and Stefan Auer , won another title and Szalay was voted Player of the Year at the end of the season. After second and third places in the following years, 1939 finally managed again to end the season at the top of the table. As a result, the team was also eligible for the Mitropacup , where they reached the final against city rivals Ferencváros by winning over AS Ambrosiana Inter and Beogradski SK , where they were successful with a total score of 6: 3.

1940 Szalay left his home club and ended his career at Ganz TE .

National team

In September 1933 Szalay wore the dress of the Hungarian national team for the first time, when he formed the runner row with György Sárosi and Gyula Lázár in a 3-0 against Switzerland . From this point on he took the half-right position regularly and was also part of the team that beat the English 2-1 in Budapest in 1934 . He was also part of the squad at the 1934 World Cup , but had to leave István Palotás the place on the right and was only used as a left runner in the quarter-final defeat against Austria .

Although Szalay was able to recapture the place for about a year after the World Cup, in the following years the Hungarians used a number of different players in the right position without anyone being able to secure a regular place. After the left runner Lázár was used in this position in the qualifying game for the 1938 World Cup against Greece , he also started on the right side in the first game of the final tournament. Then the team management decided to use Szalay again and to order Lázár back to the left. Szalay played in all other games of the World Cup, including the final defeat against Italy .

After the World Cup he only played two more internationals and ended his international career in August 1939 against Poland after a total of 24 missions.

Coaching career

After the Second World War , Szalay began his coaching career in Romania, where he was in charge of ITA Arad and FC Craiova . He then worked in Italy for US Carrarese and Pro Patria Calcio . After working as a supervisor in Luxembourg, he took over the Australian St. George-Budapest Association .

successes

• Vice world champion 1938
• 1 × Mitropacup: 1939
• 4 × Hungarian champions: 1931, 1933, 1935, 1939
• 24 games for the Hungarian national football team: 1933-1939