Ferenc Plattkó

Ferenc Plattkó
Francisco Platko, 1946.
Personnel
birthday	December 2, 1898
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	2nd September 1983
Place of death	Santiago de Chile ,  Chile
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	BTK Budapest
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1909-1911	Budapesti TK
1911-1914	Globe TC
1914-1919	Vasas Budapest
1919	Vienna AF	7th
1920	Vasas Budapest
1920	1. Ung. BSM
1921	AFK Kula
1922	Sparta Prague
1922-1923	MTK Budapest FC	17th
1923-1930	FC Barcelona
1930	Ripensia Timișoara
1931	Recreativo Huelva
1931	Racing Club de Madrid
1931	FC Barcelona	2
1932	FC Basel	6 (0)
1932	Red Star Olympique
1932-1933	FC Mulhouse
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1917-1923	Hungary	6 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1931-1932	Recreativo Huelva
1932-1933	FC Mulhouse
1933-1934	RC Roubaix
1934-1935	FC Barcelona
1935	Académico FC
1936-1937	Venus Bucharest
1937	Dacia Vasile Alecsandri Galați
1938	Celta Vigo
1938	KS Cracovia
1939	CSD Colo-Colo
1940	CA River Plate
1941-1943	CSD Colo-Colo
1942-1945	Chile	12
1945	Deportes Magallanes
1945-1946	Real Valladolid
1946-1947	CSD Colo-Colo
1947-1948	CD Santiago Morning
1949	CA Boca Juniors
1950	Chile	4th
1952	CD Santiago Wanderers
1943	Chile	3
1953-1955	CSD Colo-Colo
1955-1956	FC Barcelona
1965	CD San ​​Luis de Quillota
1 Only league games are given.

Ferenc Plattko (1928)

Final resting place: Mausoleum of Colo-Colo

Ferenc Plattkó , also Ferenc Patkó , Franz Platko and Francisco Platko , (born December 2, 1898 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † September 2, 1983 in Santiago de Chile , Chile ) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper and football coach who worked as a player with the MTK became Hungarian champions and FC Barcelona became Spanish champions. As a coach he won the championship of Romania with Venus Bucharest and with CSD Colo-Colo three times that of Chile as well as a runner-up in Spain with FC Barcelona.

His brothers István and Károly had sustained coaching careers in Spain.

Club career

Plattkó made his first footballing experience in 1909 with the Budapest BTK , from where he moved to Globus TC in 1911 , before joining the iron and metal workers' association Vasas in 1914 , a milling cutter . In 1916 the football championship in Hungary, which had been suspended due to the war, was resumed and Vasas prevailed in a promotion duel against the last of the last KAOE championship with 5-0 and thus played for the first time in the top division .

There Vasas was able to assert himself with his young goalkeeper right away and finished sixth at the end of the season. Even more convincing, however, was Plattkó himself, who was voted Hungarian Player of the Year at the end of the season. In the two following seasons, the Red-Blue could improve even further and finish fourth in the table. The goalie was said to have acrobatic skills and great courage.

In the autumn of 1919 a number of Hungarian footballers emigrated to Vienna, not least to escape the chaos in Budapest after the war. Plattkó also accepted an offer from Wiener AF , where he played together with his compatriots József Ging and Péter Szabó . However, since the Hungarian players had no releases from their clubs, the Hungarian association obtained a ban at the end of the year. In contrast to some of his compatriots, who were waiting for the clearance, which would finally arrive in the spring, Plattkó returned to Budapest, where he played again for Vasas.

In the summer of 1920, a German businessman put together a Hungarian professional team that would compete against a German professional team and go on a year-long tour of Germany and Europe. Plattkó joined this company, along with some other national players such as Gyula Feldmann , Mihály Pataki , József Ging, Sándor Nemes and József Viola . The tour had to be canceled after a few weeks for lack of success, the players sued for their outstanding salaries and returned to Hungary and Austria, where they had to answer before the respective associations.

Plattkó, however, received an offer from the English club Middlesbrough FC and left for England. In Yorkshire, however, the goalkeeper could not play a single competitive game because he was denied his work permit by the authorities. The player therefore returned to Hungary in 1921, where he was banned due to the professional player episode and initially worked for the Magyar-Olasz Bank, whose company team he also looked after. He then worked at AFK Kula as a player coach and briefly at Sparta Prague , before he came back to Budapest in 1922 and was hired by MTK. With the team around György Orth , József Braun and Gyula Mándi he was able to celebrate his first championship title.

In December 1922, the MTK went on a tour of Spain and played twice against FC Barcelona . Plattkó did not concede a goal in either game and impressed the hosts in charge, who were looking for a replacement for Ricardo Zamora , who had migrated to local rivals Espanyol . The goalie accepted the offer of the Catalans and moved to Barcelona. According to the regulations in force in Spain at the time, a player was only allowed to take part in games in official competitions if he had lived in Spain for at least 18 months. Plattkó therefore played in his first year and a half with the club exclusively friendly games and only ran in a game of the Catalan championship for the first time in October 1924 . With a team that included club legends Josep Samitier and Paulino Alcántara as well as the German Emil Walter , FC Barcelona dominated the Catalan league and won the title five times in the following six years.

Since there was still no national Spanish league in the mid-1920s, the Copa del Rey was the most important national competition. Plattkó's team was able to win this cup three times during his time at the club, and he played the final in a 2-0 win against Arenas Club de Getxo in 1925 and in a 3-2 win against Atlético Madrid in 1926 . In 1928, in the first final game against Real Sociedad , he suffered a severe head wound while preventing a certain goal, which in the meantime took him out of the game and had to be sewn with six stitches. The poet Rafael Alberti who was present was so impressed that he returned to the goal with a heavily bandaged head after the treatment that he dedicated the poem Oda a Platko to the goalie . Barcelona should eventually win the cup in the second replay, but without Plattkó.

In 1928/29 an all-Spanish championship was held for the first time and FC Barcelona was able to prevail in the end with two points ahead of Real Madrid . In the following season, Barça Athletic Bilbao had to admit defeat and became runner-up. On January 26th he made his last league game for the club in a 4-1 home defeat against Real Madrid. His last appearance for Barcelona followed a week later in a 4-1 win for the Catalan championship against CF Badalona . He was injured during the game and was hospitalized for a long time. Plattkó later complained about the lack of support from the club at this stage. He was not even allowed to visit officials. Spain is said to have spoiled him. After the end of the season he was dismantled and Joan Uriach replaced him the following season.

He is said to have had an offer from Real Madrid, and also one from the Mexican association as national coach, that he wanted to accept if nothing suitable came to him in Europe. In the meantime he tried to find a club in Budapest, but couldn't find anyone willing to pay enough. In October, Plattkó had a very brief engagement in Romania with the professional players' club Ripensia Timișoara . At the beginning of November it was already over there and he realized that the professionalism there would only really start in the spring of the following year and complained about the quality of the player material and the offspring as well as the one-time good place. In the meantime, he was again being discussed as Zamorra's successor at Real.

In January 1931 he was lured with a hand money of 44,000 pesetas from Recreativo Huelva, who played in a regional league . But already in the middle of the year he embarked on a big trip to America with the Racing Club de Madrid, which had become financially weak due to the construction of a new stadium, and which had subsequently become inferior in sport , where the club tried desperately to earn money. It was reported from Peru that Plattkó might want to follow in the footsteps of his compatriot György "Jorge" Orth , who was successful in Chile from 1930 to 1931, and wants to hire himself out as a coach in South America. But for the time being, the journey continued via Cuba and Mexico to the United States. In October he stood in front of 2,000 spectators in a 2-1 win against New York Hakoah for Bela Guttmann , which was probably the last sporting outcry of the Madrid club. The tour ended in a financial debacle and the players had to be shipped back to Europe in November at the expense of the Spanish Federation. There, the team largely disbanded and the club soon said goodbye to football history entirely.

During the Christmas holidays of 1931, he again guarded Barça's goal in two games against the Wiener Sportklub (4: 2, 3: 1). In early 1932 he played for FC Basel in Switzerland until the end of the season. In June 1932 he joined Red Star Olympique from Paris to wait for the gate on a tour through Germany and Poland. The Parisians came among other things to a 2-1 success at Hamburger SV . In mid-September he was hired by the French club FC Mulhouse after it became apparent there that the German national goalkeeper Willibald Kreß would not receive approval from the DFB for violating the amateur regulations at his preliminary club Rot-Weiss Frankfurt . In the first professional Division 1 , the Alsatians were relegated from the bottom of the group in Group A. Plattkó would have been better oriented to the Austrian Ferdl Swatosch , who was player-coach at the club from May to November and whose function as coach he took over after his departure. “A really terrible company, of course from a footballing point of view,” he said. "The players are inaccessible to instruction and it is also impossible to encourage them to practice regularly."

National team

Plattkó made his debut for the Hungarian national team at the age of 18 when he stood between the goal posts in a 4-1 win against Austria in July 1917, becoming Vasas' first national player. Two more games against the same opponent followed in the same year before the experienced Károly Zsák was able to recapture the regular position in the Hungarian goal. Due to his stays abroad, Plattkó was rarely used, for the sixth and last time in March 1923 against Switzerland .

Plattkó also had an invitation to take part in the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris with the Hungarian national team , but did not receive any approval from FC Barcelona.

Coaching career

In 1931, Plattkó began his coaching career as a player-coach at Recreativo Huelva , before he became a player again in 1932 and guarded the goal of FC Basel . In the same year he replaced Ferdinand Swatosch in the coaching bench of the French first division club FC Mulhouse and also ran for the club as a goalkeeper. The Alsatians had to relegate at the end of the season as the bottom of their group. In the following season he worked in the same function at the second division RC Roubaix , but where the promotion did not succeed.

In 1934 Plattkó returned to Barcelona and took over the coaching post as the successor to the former Bayern coach Richard "Dombi" Kohn . Although the Catalan championship could be won again, in the Spanish championship it was only enough to a disappointing sixth place and the Hungarian had to leave the club again. FC Barcelona signed the Irish Patrick O'Connell in his place. This was followed by a brief activity at the Académico de Porto before the coach traveled to the United States and prepared the US Olympic team for the Games in Berlin , where they just failed in the first round at the eventual Olympic champion Italy . In the same year his second attempt to work in England was unsuccessful. Despite an invitation from Arsenal FC , he did not receive a work permit this time either.

In the summer of 1936 he took over the Romanian club Venus Bucharest , which he led to the 1937 league title before he an offer from Dacia Vasile Alecsandri Galati from the Divizia B accepted. Afterwards, Plattkó looked after the Galician club Celta Vigo when, due to the Spanish civil war, only regional competitions were held. In 1938 he coached the Polish club KS Cracovia .

At the end of June 1939 he saw Chilean club CSD Colo-Colo for the first time in a 9-1 win over CD Magallanes . From August he sat himself in the coaching bench and won the championship title with him that same year, only the second in the club's history. In 1940 he succeeded his compatriot Imre "Emérico" Hirschl in the coaching bench at CA River Plate in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . There he was concerned with modernizing the tactics of his predecessor and he tried to switch the defense to an "M" formation (from the World Cup system ), but this did not bring him any direct success. After seven defeats in the first twelve games of the season, his engagement with the start group, which was used to success in that era, was ended. His successor Renato Cesarini formed the legendary Maquina , one of the most outstanding formations in football history.

Plattkó returned to Santiago in 1941 where he succeeded his compatriot Máximo (Miksa) Garay , who was his second successor after Guillermo Saavedra . He led Colo-Colo with the World Cup formation he implemented for the second time, this time unbeaten, to the Chilean championship of 1941. This earned him the reputation of a great innovator in Chilean football. The third defender, who later became the stopper, was initially given the nickname half-polícia in Chile .

In 1941 Plattkó also took over the post of Chilean national coach , which he was to hold three more times in the course of his career, at the Campeonato Sudamericano 1942 , however , the Chileans only occupied the penultimate place. In 1945 he reached third place with the Chileans at the Campeonato Sudamericano in his own country. One of the most beautiful goals of his career by Heleno de Freitas caused the Brazilians to bend 1-0 in the last game of the tournament and put an end to the dreams of the Chileans, whose team with the famous goalkeeper Sergio Livingstone won the championship in a decider against Argentina could have won.

In 1945 Plattkó initially coached the then reputable club Deportes Magallanes in Santiago before he returned to Europe after the end of World War II and became a coach at the third-class Real Valladolid . After just one season he went back to Chile and took care of Colo-Colo again for two seasons and won another championship title and then the CD Santiago Morning one year .

From October 1949 to April 1950 this time he was the successor of Renato Cesarini coach of the Boca Juniors . In the last eight match days of 1939 he achieved four wins, which helped that the club was one point ahead of the relegation places in 15th place. The next season he started with two defeats from three games and was disposed of after a 3-6 at CA Platense . The Juniors were runner-up that year.

In the early 1950s he was Technical Director at River Plate. In 1952 he returned to Chile and trained CD Santiago Wanderers in Valparaíso . In 1953 he won his fourth Chilean championship title with Colo-Colo in 1953. He stayed with Colo-Colo in his last term of office until 1955 and then returned to Europe. Various other clubs in Chile that he is said to have coached are also named.

For the 1955/56 season he returned to FC Barcelona, ​​where he succeeded the Italian Sandro Puppo , under whom the team was runner-up with 41 points behind Real Madrid , who won five points more. Barcelona also finished runner-up under Plattkó, albeit with 47 points and only one point behind Athletic Bilbao . His league record of 22 wins, three draws and five defeats was the club's best to date. The series of ten wins in a row in the league was only surpassed in the 2005/06 season under Frank Rijkaard . His downfall was a 3-1 defeat on May 20 in the cup quarter-finals against local rivals RCD Español . The club then dismissed Plattkó because of a rift with the team. In particular, the relationship between Plattkó and the star of the team László Kubala was considered tense. Club legend Josep Samitier, the club's technical director at the time, was already on the bench in the second leg of the cup, which ended 4: 4. During his tenure with the club, the first phase of the Messestädte Cup 1955–1958 , which the Catalans were finally able to win, also fell. In December, FC Barcelona achieved results of 6: 2 and 1: 1 against the Copenhagen city selection. The following season, Domingo Balmanya coached the Catalans and finished third with them - and won the trophy by beating Español 1-0 in the final.

After the end of his coaching career, Plattkó was still from 1957 to 1964 as a talent scout in Brazil. At the 1962 World Cup in Chile, he met the Hungarian national team for which he was a stranger.

In 1965 he returned to the coaching bench and was with the CD San ​​Luis de Quillota , a club from the Región de Valparaíso , 16th in the Primera División of Chile, which was an improvement of one rank over the penultimate place of the previous year .

On September 2, 1983, he died in Santiago at the age of 84 from cancer. He was impoverished by medical expenses and his demise did not attract much public attention. He was buried in the Mausoleo del Círculo de Antiguos Deportistas Juan Ramsay , a mausoleum for old athletes that is named after the great football pioneer of Santiago, on the Cementerio General de Santiago . In April 2015, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of Colo-Colo, his remains were reburied in the mausoleum of the old stars of Colo-Colo, the Mausoleo de Los Viejos Cracks del Colo-Colo .

In 1946 he published the book Arte y ciencia del futbol moderno in Santiago , which deals with tactics and training.

successes

As a player

• 1 × Hungarian champion: 1923
• 1 × Spanish champion: 1929
• 5 × Catalan champion: 1925, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930
• 3 × Spanish cup winners: 1925, 1926, 1928
• 6 games for the Hungarian national football team: 1917–1923

As a trainer

• Copa América: Third place in 1945
• 1 × Trade Fair City Cup: 1955–1958
• 1 × Catalan champion: 1935
• 1 × Romanian champion: 1937
• 4 × Chilean champions: 1939, 1941, 1953

Web links

• Ferenc Plattkó in the database of EU-Football.info (English)
• Ferenc Plattkó in the database of bdfutbol.com (English)
• Platko (1934-35 and 1955-56) , FC Barcelona (as of August 20, 2020)
• Plattkó Ferenc (National team statistics Chile / illustrated), Partidos de la Roja (as of 2020-08-20)
• Plattkó Ferenc y Waldo Sanhueza (Statistics National Team Chile), Partidos de la Roja (as of 2020-08-20)

literature

• Tamás Dénes Mihály Sándor Éva B. Bába: A magyar labdarúgás története I .: Amatőrök és álamatorök (1897-1926) (. Debreceni Campus Nonprofit Kft Közhasznú), Campus Kiadó, Debrecen, 2014. ISBN 978-963-9822-11 -5

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 75 años de la Oda a Platko, de Alberti
2. ↑ Mihai Flamaropol: Fotbal - cadran românesc , Editura Sport-Turism, Bucharest, 1986 (Romanian)
3. ↑ Idolos: Técnicos - Francisco Platko ( Memento of November 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) at www.colocolo.cl, accessed on November 13, 2012