Ferenc Hirzer

Ferenc Hirzer
Hirzer at Juventus
Personnel
birthday	November 21, 1902
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	April 28, 1957
Place of death	Trento ,  Italy
size	172 cm
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1913-1923	Törekvés SE
1923-1924	Makkabi Brno
1924-1925	Union 03 Altona
1925-1926	Juventus Turin	43 (50)
1926-1932	MTK Budapest
1932-1933	FC Young Fellows Zurich
1933-1935	US Servannaise-Malouine
	III. Kerület Budapest
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1922-1932	Hungary	32 (14)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1935-1936	AC Mantova
1936-1938	US Salernitana
1938-1939	Anconitana-Bianchi
1939	AC Liguria
1940	Giovani Calciatori Vigevanesi
1940-1941	US Salernitana
1941-1943	AC Perugia
1945-1946	US Lecce
1946-1947	FS Sestrese
1949-1950	Benevento Calcio
1954-1955	US Aosta
1956-1957	AC Trento
1 Only league games are given.

Ferenc Hirzer , Hungarian Ferenc Híres (born November 21, 1902 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † April 28, 1957 in Trento , Italy ), was a Hungarian football player and later coach .

Career

Ferenc Hirzer began his football career at the Budapest railway sports club Törekvés SE . The team regularly reached final places in the upper half of the table of the Hungarian league in the early 1920s, but could not be dangerous to the established clubs, especially the then dominant MTK Budapest . However, Hirzer also managed to attract attention as a player at a smaller club and made his national team debut against Switzerland in June 1922 .

In 1923 he left his regular club and moved to Czechoslovakia to the Jewish club Makkabi Brno . Hirzer was not a Jew, but at that time Maccabi had repeatedly signed non-Jewish players when he expected an increase in playing strength - a personnel policy that was very controversial and ultimately led to the club's exclusion from the Jewish association. During his time in Brno , Hirzer was also called up to the national team and was part of the team that was sent to the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. In the first game Hirzer scored two goals in a 5-0 win against Poland , but in the second round there was a surprising elimination against Egypt .

After he was already on tour with the Maccabi in northern Germany in the spring of 1924 and a game against Union 03 Altona was played there, he moved to Altona in the summer of that year . He was also able to convince in Germany; the local press said: “The Hungarian boy prodigy is a football phenomenon; We have never had one like this in Hamburg. ” Union achieved second place in the north German league, Elbekreis, in the 1924/25 season. During this season he was also called up once for the North German selection.

After only one year, Hirzer left Altona for the south. Juventus Turin had a Hungarian coach Jenő Károly in the mid-twenties , who had already brought a former Törekvés player to Turin in József Viola and now wanted to sign Hirzer. Attempts by the Hungarian association to prevent the move in order to continue using Hirzer in the national team were unsuccessful, and in October 1925 the Hungarian debuted in the game against AC Parma , scoring three goals. During the season he scored a total of 35 goals in 26 games, and Juventus took the championship title in the final against Alba Roma . The mark of 35 goals has only been exceeded once in the top Italian division , namely by Gino Rossetti , who scored 36 goals for FBC Turin in the 1928/29 season. Because of its speed, Hirzer was nicknamed "Gazelle" in Italy. In the following season he scored 15 goals in 17 games, Juventus took third place in the final round.

From 1927 onwards only players of Italian descent could be used in the Italian football championship, which forced Hirzer to leave Juventus. He returned to Hungary and joined the MTK now called Hungária FC Budapest . In five seasons he scored 68 championship goals, won the championship title in 1929 and the cup victory in 1932. In the Mitropapokal in 1927 he reached the semifinals with Hungária, where the Hungarians were disqualified because of the unauthorized use of Kálmán Konrád . He also played again for the Hungarian national team, with whom he also played the European Cup of National Football Teams from 1927 to 1930 , where he scored five goals. He played his last game for Hungary in May 1932 against Italy . In total, he came to 33 internationals in which he scored 14 goals.

In 1932 Hirzer left Hungária and initially worked for a year with FC Young Fellows Zurich , then for two years for the French second division team US Servannaise-Malouine . He finally left his active career at home with III. End Kerület Budapest .

Thereafter, Hirzer returned to Italy in 1935 and worked as a coach at a number of lower-class clubs, including Mantova Sportiva , US Salernitana and Anconitana-Bianchi . His last coaching position was AC Trento in the mid-1950s .

successes

• 1 × Mitropa Cup semi-finals: 1927
• 1 × Italian champion : 1925/26
• 1 × Hungarian champion : 1928/29
• 1 × Hungarian Cup winner : 1931/32
• 1 × Italian top scorer : 1925/26
• 33 games and 14 goals for the Hungarian national football team

Web links

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

• Ferenc Hirzer in the database of weltfussball.de
• Ferenc Hirzer at www.enciclopedia-football.com
• HIRZER (HÍRES) Ferenc (Dutch)