Ferenc machos

Ferenc machos
Ferenc Machos during training on the Vasas route on Fáy Street.
Personnel
birthday	June 30, 1932
place of birth	Tatabánya ,  Hungary
date of death	December 3, 2006
Place of death	Budapest ,  Hungary
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
1947-1950	FC Tatabánya
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1950-1952	FC Tatabánya
1953	Honvéd Szeged
1954-1959	Honvéd Budapest	95 (59)
1960-1969	Vasas Budapest	105 (59)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1955-1963	Hungary	29 0(14)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1965-1968	Vasas Budapest
1969-1970	Hungary
1970-1972	Vasas Budapest
1 Only league games are given.

Ferenc Machos (born June 30, 1932 in Tatabánya , † December 3, 2006 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian football player . He took part in the 1954 World Cup with the national team of his home country and won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics two years earlier .

Career

Ferenc Machos began his football career in 1950 with FC Tatabánya in his hometown. Machos stayed with the then first-class club until 1952, before he joined Honvéd Szeged for a year. In 1954 he moved to the capital of Hungary to Honvéd Budapest . At the club, where he played together with many of the players of the famous Hungarian Golden Eleven of the 1950s such as Ferenc Puskás , Sándor Kocsis or József Bozsik , he won his first national title in 1954, as Honvéd in the Nemzeti Bajnokság, first place with five Points ahead of MTK Budapest . The following year they could repeat this title win, this time the first place was occupied with four points in front of MTK Budapest again. Another championship title with Honvéd was denied Machos, as in the course of the suppression of the Hungarian uprising at the end of 1956, many of Hungary's stars fled to the West, including Puskás, Zoltán Czibor and Kocsis. Only goalkeepers Gyula Grosics , László Budai and Bozsik remained from the world stars in Hungary . It was not until 1980 before Honvéd was able to win a national championship title again. The only success besides winning the Cup in 1964 in the years after the popular uprising was winning the 1959 Mitropa Cup for Honvéd. In the same year Ferenc Machos left the club and joined Vasas SC , also from Budapest. There he won four championships and the Mitropa Cup three times by the end of his career in 1969. After 105 games for Vasas Budapest, Ferenc Machos ended his active career in 1969 and became a football coach.

In the Hungarian national football team , Ferenc Machos appeared 29 times between 1955 and 1963. With the national team of his home country, he took part in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland without having previously played an international match . He was not used in the tournament, while his team, which was then considered the best national team in the world, advanced to the finals and was surprisingly defeated by Germany . Machos completed his first international match in 1955 and played 28 more times for Hungary until 1963, but did not take part in any other world championships.

After he had trained Vasas as a player-coach from 1965 to 1968, he was hired by the Hungarian national football team as an assistant coach in 1969. His tenure as assistant coach under Károly Sós was less successful and ended with the missed qualification for the football World Cup in Mexico in 1970 , whereupon he and his boss were sacked. He then coached Vasas Budapest's team again from 1970 to 1972, before retiring in 1972.

Gravestone of Ferenc Machos

Web links

• Ferenc Machos in the database of FIFA (English)
• Player biography