Desiré Koranyi

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Désiré Koranyi (born January 28, 1914 in Szeged , Austria-Hungary , as Dezső Korányi or Kronenberger ; † 1981 ) was a naturalized French football player and coach . Occasionally he was also referred to as Korányi III to distinguish him from his brothers Lajos and Mátyás , both also Hungarian internationals.

Player career

In the club

Before moving to France, Dezső Korányi played for Kecskeméti AC ; In 1935 he is said to have negotiated with Ferencváros Budapest . The center forward developed into one of the first great strikers in the young professional league of France , in which he played for FC Sète from the age of 22 ; He remained loyal to this club almost to the end of his career. In France, Désiré (or Dejeu ), called Dezső, had a hard shot and reacted quickly to game situations; although he was only 1.68 m tall, he also scored numerous goals with his head , which earned him the nickname "little gold head". With a total of 157 goals in Division 1 , he was ranked 16th in the country's "eternal" scorer list in 2008 , not counting the goals he scored from 1939 to 1945 because these six years during the war and German occupation France's not considered official seasons. Although he was often the target of attacks by his usually more robust opponents and therefore repeatedly needed longer injury breaks, he always remained fair on the field and never complained about it.

With the Dauphins - the name most commonly used by football players Sètes to this day - he initially only played in the middle of the league table; at the end of the 1937/38 season, however, Sète was in third place, to which Koranyi had contributed with 24 hits (also third place for the goalscorer, just behind Jean Nicolas and Oskar Rohr ). He managed to improve both of these in the following year: In 1939 the southern French won the championship , and the Hungarian was not only top scorer (together with Roger Courtois , each with 27 goals), but also became the French international in May (see below ) . Two game days before the end of the season, Olympique Marseille and Racing Paris still had a chance of winning the title, but Désiré Koranyi secured Sète with three goals against SC Fives and two against Paris in the league's final sprint.

During the following six years ("war championships"), FC Sète won the 1942 championship and cup in Division 1, Zone Sud , that is, the partial competitions in unoccupied France . In the cup, which, in contrast to the league, still counts as official competitions during these years, Koranyi failed in the subsequent final against the winner of occupied France, Red Star Olympique , but with 0: 2. After France's liberation, Sète played for five years against relegation rather than for a national title: 13th place in the championship (1946 and 1947) and reaching the cup quarter-finals (1949) were the best results that Koranyi still achieve with the Dauphins could. The total number of his league goals (157) is known, but not how many top division games he has played in total. This information is only available for his last two seasons in Sète, in which he came on 47 missions and scored 17 goals.

After 15 years he left Sète in 1950, but stayed in the south of France, where he laced his boots for the lower class AC Arles , SO Montpellier , ESA Brive and US Lodève , partly as a player- coach. In between, he returned for a season to “his” FC Sète , now relegated to Division 2 . The 41-year-old led the team in 1955/56, however, only in 18th of 20 places in the table.

Stations

  • Újszegedi TC, Kecskeméti AC, as a teenager
  • Football Club de Sète (1935-1950)
  • Athlétic Club Arlésien (1950/51, as an amateur)
  • Stade Olympique Montpelliérain (1951/52, in D2 )
  • Étoile Sportive Aiglons Briviste (as an amateur)
  • FC Sète (1955/56, as player-coach, in D2)
  • Union Sportive de Lodève (1957/58 (?), As player-coach)

The national player

Before moving to Sète, Koranyi had played for the Hungarian amateur national team, but not for the A-team of the Magyars. Between May 1939 and March 1942 he played 5 full international matches for France , in which he scored 5 goals (including two doubles against Belgium and Portugal ). These were the last international meetings of the Équipe tricolore until the end of the war, which is why Koranyi was denied a large number of missions with the Bleus . The names of his strike partners read like " the Gotha of French football" of those years: the wingers Roger Courtois , Alfred Aston , Émile Veinante and Jules Mathé as well as the half-strikers Larbi Ben Barek , Oscar Heisserer and Henri Hiltl made it easier for Désiré Koranyi to score.

As a trainer

After his years as a player-coach, he tried in 1958/59 to bring FC Metz back into the footballing upper house; he failed, albeit by a narrow margin - in the national cup, however, he was granted a respectable success by leading the second division into the round of the last eight teams, where he bowed 2-0 to the eventual winner of the competition, Le Havre AC had to.

What became of Désiré Koranyi in the following years up to his untimely death cannot yet be determined. A street in Sète is named after him today.

Palmarès

literature

  • Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998 ISBN 2-7384-6608-7
  • Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002 ISBN 2-84253-762-9
  • Denis Chaumier: Les Bleus. Tous les joueurs de l'équipe de France de 1904 à nos jours. Larousse, o. O. 2004 ISBN 2-03-505420-6
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: La belle histoire. L'équipe de France de football. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2004 ISBN 2-9519605-3-0
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 1996, 2003 2 ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1

Remarks

  1. ↑ Mátyás Korányi also played temporarily in France, at least from 1937 to 1939 at Olympique Lille .
  2. ^ Dénes Tamás / Peterdi Pál / Rochy Zoltán / Selmeci József: Kalandozó magyar labdarúgók. Budapest 1999, p. 218
  3. ↑ Chaumier, p. 178
  4. ↑ Rethacker / Thibert, p. 158; Beaudet, pp. 25/26
  5. ↑ Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J.
  6. ↑ Barreaud, p. 44
  7. ^ The stations of Arles, Montpellier and Brive after Barreaud, p. 163
  8. ↑ Article  in:  Reichspost , October 18, 1933, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).Template: ANNO / Maintenance / rpt
  9. ↑ This is what Rethacker / Thibert, p. 158 claim, but obviously confuse Désiré with his brother Mátyás (see Hungary's list of May 19, 1935 in the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir , printed in L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 305)
  10. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 308

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personal data
SURNAME Koranyi, Désiré
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Korányi, Dezső; Kronenberger, Dezső
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1914
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH 1981