Ferenc Sipos

Ferenc Sipos
Ferenc Sipos, 1958
Personnel
birthday	December 13, 1932
place of birth	Budapest ,  Hungary
date of death	March 17, 1997
Place of death	Budapest ,  Hungary
position	defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1950-1952	Goldberger SE
1952-1956	Szolnoki Légierő SE
1956-1964	MTK Budapest
1964-1968	Honvéd Budapest
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1957-1966	Hungary	77 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Sátoraljaújhelyi Spartacus
	ÉGSZÖV MEDOSZ
	Csepel Autó
	Szigeszentmiklós
1982-1983	Tersana SC
	Honvéd Budapest (Youth)
1 Only league games are given.

Ferenc Sipos , also Ferenc Sibszky (born December 13, 1932 in Budapest , Hungary ; † March 17, 1997 ibid.) Was a Hungarian football player and football coach . With MTK Budapest he won a championship title and with the national team he took part in three world championships.

Club career

Sipos began his football career at the small Budapest club Goldberger SE , where he made his debut in the fighting team in 1950. Two years later, the Sipos, who can be used both as a defender and as a midfielder, moved to the Szolnoki Légierő SE Air Force Club . In 1954 he was promoted to the top division, but after only one season the return to the second division took place.

In the following year Sipos moved to MTK, where he played in a team with Mihály Lantos , Nándor Hidegkuti and Péter Palotás . After a runner-up title in 1957 succeeded in the next year under coach Márton Bukovi winning the championship and Sipos was voted Hungarian player of the year. In the following years, the blue and white played in the top regions of the table, but did not win another title. In the 1961/62 season, the team reached the semifinals of the Exhibition City Cup , where they lost to the eventual winner Valencia CF.

On the mediation of Lajos Tichy , Sipos moved to Honvéd Budapest in 1964 , where he won the cup in his first season and remained active until 1968.

National team

In September 1957 he made his debut as a defender in the Hungarian national team in a 2-1 win against Bulgaria . Sipos was able to secure a regular place straight away and ran from his debut game to May 1963 in 57 consecutive international matches, which means a Hungarian record that still exists today. Until 1961 he was mostly called up in defense on the side of Sándor Mátrai , after which he was primarily used in midfield.

His first major international event was the 1958 World Cup , where the Hungarians failed in the group stage in the play-off to Wales and Sipos was excluded in this game.

Four years later he reached the quarter-finals with the Hungarians at the 1962 World Cup , where they lost 1-0 to the eventual finalists Czechoslovakia . In 1964, Sipos reached the final round of the 1964 European Championship with the national team , where they lost to Spain in the semi- finals and finally took third place. Sipos' last international tournament was the 1966 World Cup , where the Hungarians again reached the quarter-finals.

His 77th and last international match was in October 1966 in a 3-1 win over Austria .

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Sipos immediately switched to coaching and in the next few years looked after several lower-class clubs with Sátoraljaújhelyi Spartacus , ÉGSZÖV MEDOSZ , Csepel Autó and Szigeszentmiklós . From 1982 to 1983 he was the coach of Tersana SC in Egypt . In the 1990s he returned to Honvéd, where he was active in youth work.

successes

• Third place in the European Championship in 1964
• 2 × World Cup quarter-finals: 1962, 1966
• 1 × Hungarian champion: 1958
• 1 × Hungarian Cup winner: 1964
• 77 games and one goal for the Hungarian national football team