Elemér Berkessy

Elemér Berkessy
Personnel
birthday	June 20, 1905
place of birth	Nagyvárad ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	July 7, 1993
Place of death	Barcelona ,  Spain
position	Outrunner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1921-1924	CAO Oradea
1924–	UCAS Petroșani
	Bihorul Oradea
	Fulgerul CFR Chisinau
	Jiul Lupeni
1928-1932	Ferencvárosi FC
1932-1934	Racing Club de Paris
1934-1936	FC Barcelona
1936–	Le Havre AC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1928-1930	Hungary	7 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Szentlőrinci AC
	Tatabányai SC
	Salgótarjáni BTC
	Szegedi VSE
	Szeged FC
1944	Ferencváros Budapest
1947-1948	Vicenza Calcio
	AS Biellese
	Pro Patria Calcio
	Rosignano Calcio
1951-1952 / 53	Real Zaragoza
1954	Grimsby Town
1955-1957	VAV Beerschot
1957-1958	Espanyol Barcelona
1 Only league games are given.

Elemér Berkessy , also known under the name Emilio Berkessy (born June 20, 1905 in Nagyvárad , Austria-Hungary , † July 7, 1993 in Barcelona , Spain ), was a Hungarian football player and football coach .

Club career

After the end of the First World War , Berkessy's hometown fell to Romania and so he began his career in the Romanian football business, where he was active at the CAO Oradea from 1921 . In the 1924/25 season he played at UCAS Petroşani , where he reached the final of the Romanian championship, which was lost to Chinezul Timişoara with 1: 5. Other stations were Bihorul Oradea , Fulgerul CFR Chișinău and Jiul Lupeni , where he again reached the final with the latter team, but also went here as a loser with a 2: 3 against Colțea Brașov .

In 1928, the tall outsider received an offer from Ferencvárosi FC and moved to the club from the Hungarian capital, overseen by István Tóth-Potya , which had won the last three championship titles. Right at the beginning of his activity in Budapest, Berkessy took part in the Mitropacup . With victories over Beogradski SK and SK Admira Wien , they reached the final, where SK Rapid Wien was beaten 7-1 in the first leg, a lead that was sufficient despite a 3: 5 in the second leg. In the championship it was only enough for second and third places in the following years, a title could not be won again until 1931/32, and the green-whites remained undefeated for the entire season. However, Berkessy was only used sporadically - also due to an injury.

He then moved to the newly founded French professional league , where he signed for the Racing Club de Paris overseen by Jimmy Hogan . He stayed with the club for two seasons and played in a team with Rudolf Hiden and Auguste Jordan . In 1934 he accepted an offer from FC Barcelona and played for the blue-reds for two years, where it was only enough for midfield places in the Spanish championship, but the Catalan championship title could be won twice. In 1936 he returned to France and worked for the second division Le Havre AC under the player- coach Pepi Schneider .

National team

After moving to Hungary, Berkessy was also used in the national team , where he made his debut in a team in November 1928 as part of the Nations Cup in a 3-1 win against Switzerland , whose runner row with Károly Furmann , Márton Bukovi and Berkessy was completely out Ferencváros players was formed. By October 1930 he came to a total of seven missions as a left wing runner, his last game was a 1-1 against Czechoslovakia .

Coaching career

After returning to Hungary in the late 1930s, Berkessy continued his career as a coach and in the following years looked after the Szentlőrinci AC , where he discovered the young Ferenc Deák , the Tatabányai SC , Salgótarjáni BTC , Szegedi VSE , Szeged FC and his in 1944 old association Ferencváros.

After the Second World War he left Hungary and took over the Italian first division club Vicenza Calcio in 1947 , but had to relegate to Serie B with the club. He then looked after AS Biellese , Pro Patria Calcio and Rosignano Calcio . In 1951 he went back to Spain and took over the training at Real Saragossa , where he managed to stay in the league, but was replaced in the course of the following season.

1954 Berkessy became the first foreign coach in the history of the English professional leagues when he took over the supervision of the third division club Grimsby Town . This engagement lasted only a few weeks, however, as the Hungarian did not get a work permit. The British Ministry of Labor was of the opinion that it could not see any advantage that the engagement of a Hungarian coach would have over that of an English coach, which in view of the fact that the English had their first home game against a national team from outside the previous year against the Hungarians lost the British Isles seems strange.

From 1955 to 1957 Berkessy looked after the Belgian club VAV Beerschot and then returned to Spain, where he coached Espanyol Barcelona in the 1957/58 season.

successes

• 1 × Mitropacup winner: 1928
• 1 × Hungarian champion: 1932
• 2 × Catalan champion: 1935, 1936
• 2 × finals of the Romanian championship: 1925, 1928
• 7 games for the Hungarian national football team: 1928–1930

Remarks

1. ^ Roy Briggs: Emilio - Town's Foreign Coach , in Sing When We're Fishing, Issue 51, online version ( Memento of March 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive )