Ferenc Bene

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Ferenc Bene [ ˈfɛrɛnts ˈbɛnɛ ] (born  December 17, 1944 in Balatonújlak , †  February 27, 2006 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian football player .

Success with Újpesti Dózsa

He began his career at the age of 17 at the Újpesti Dózsa club , for which he played for 17 years. Between 1961 and 1978 he scored 303 goals in 417 league games for the club. During this time he won the Hungarian championship eight times with the club - seven titles in a row from 1969 to 1974/75 - and the Hungarian Cup three times - in 1969, 1970, 1974/75 .

In the 1968/69 series he was with Újpest after successes against Aris Saloniki, Legia Warsaw, Leeds United and in the semifinals against Göztepe Izmir in the final of the trade fair cup , which was lost 3-2 to Newcastle United . Teammates Antal Dunai (10 goals) and Bene with nine goals topped the list of goalscorers in the trade fair cup. The team started an impressive series of seven top-class wins. Újpest won all championships from 1969 to 1975, scored exactly 500 goals in the seven championships and reached the quarter-finals in the European Cup almost every year . In the 1973/74 season , the team even reached the semi-finals, where only the later winner Bayern Munich put a stop to the triumphant advance of the Violets. The stocky, strong and dynamic scorer was the national top scorer in 1962/63 (23), 1971/72 (29), 1972/73 (23) and 1974/75 with 20 goals.

The trademark of this team was the goal success. The famous attacking formation Fazekas  - Göröcs  - Bene - Dunai II  - Zámbó , under coach Lajos Baróti fascinated thousands of football fans both in Hungary and in other countries.

Olympic gold with the national team

On October 14, 1962, the 17-year-old attacking talent of Ujpesti Dozsa debuted in the international match in Budapest against Yugoslavia (0-1) in the national team. In 1964 he was third with the national team at the European Football Championship in Spain . In the final round of the semi-final match against Spain in Madrid on June 17, he scored the goal of an interim 1: 1 equalization and brought Hungary in the match for 3rd place on June 20 in Barcelona in the 10th minute with 1: 0 against Denmark Guide. In the European Championship qualification, he had scored the winning goal to 2-1 in the quarter-finals on May 23, 1964 in Budapest in the second leg against France. In the same year he was the top scorer at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo . Bene scored a total of twelve goals - including all goals in the 6-0 win in the group game against Morocco and one goal in the 2-1 in the final against Czechoslovakia - and thus made a decisive contribution to the Hungarians' gold medal.

His appearance at the 1966 World Cup in England was also spectacular , where he scored a goal against Brazil in the third minute and made it 3-1 for the Hungarians with a penalty. For the Brazilians it was the first World Cup defeat since 1954, when they also lost to Hungary.

The striker played a total of 76 international matches for Hungary from 1962 to 1979 - he was active in the national team for 17 years - and scored 36 goals. In 1969 he was voted Hungarian Footballer of the Year.

After the end of his playing career, he worked as a coach, including in Norway . At Újpest he mainly worked in the youth sector, but also coached the first team from 1992–93. Bene acted as the assistant coach of his former teammate Antal Dunai when he led the Hungarian U21s to the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta as head coach . There the Magyars were knocked out after the preliminary round.

Later on, Ference Bene also coached a women's soccer team and the Hungarian beach soccer team.

Ference Bene died in 2006 after lengthy treatment for the consequences of a fall.

Clubs as players

  • Újpesti Dózsa (1961–1978)
  • Volán FC (1978–1979, 1983–1984)
  • Sepsi-78 Seinäjoki (Finland / 1981–1982)
  • Soroksari VOSE (1984)
  • Kecskeméti SC (1985)

successes

team

Personally

  • Top scorer European Championship: 1964 (2 goals)
  • Olympic Games top scorer: 1964 (12 goals)
  • Top scorer of the trade fair cup: 1969 (9 goals)
  • Hungarian League top scorer: 1963 (23 goals), 1969 (27), 1972 (29), 1973 (23), 1975 (20)
  • Hungary's Footballer of the Year : 1969

Web links

Commons : Ferenc Bene  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. Volume 1: 1955 to 1974. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2007, ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6 , p. 295.
  2. ↑ International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS): 211 world's top first division goal scorers of the century. January 1998. p. 81.
  3. ↑ Hardy Greens : Football EM Encyclopedia. 1960 to 2012. 2nd edition. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 2008, ISBN 978-3-89784-350-9 , pp. 45-48.
personal data
SURNAME Bene, Ferenc
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Balatonújlak
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 2006
Place of death Budapest