Géza Kalocsay

Géza Kalocsay (born May 13, 1913 in Berehowe , Austria-Hungary ; † September 26, 2008 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Czechoslovak - Hungarian football player and football coach who was used for the national teams of both countries.

Club career

Kalocsay started his football career in his Transcarpathian hometown, which belonged to Czechoslovakia after the First World War . In 1932 he moved to Prague to study law at Charles University and joined Sparta . There the left winger played in an attack row with Raymond Braine , Oldřich Nejedlý and Ferdinand Faczinek . The tall and fast-paced player was particularly known for his precise crosses. The team was runner-up three times in a row, behind Slavia Prague . In 1934 Sparta won the cup title, but Kalocsay was not in the final eleven. In 1935, Prague reached the final in the Mitropacup with victories over First Vienna FC , AC Fiorentina and Juventus FC , where they met Ferencváros FC . After a 1: 2 in Budapest, Sparta was able to turn the result around with a 3-0 home game and win the title. In the following season Kalocsay was able to celebrate the first national championship title.

In 1937 the striker moved to the French Division 1 at Olympique Lille . In his two seasons with the club, places in the upper middle of the table could be achieved, the high point of his time in France was reaching the final in the Coupe de France 1938/39 , where they met RC Paris . After Kalocsay had equalized 1: 1 in the meantime, the final was finally lost 3-1.

The player then left the club and signed with the Hungarian Kispesti AC . After a year he moved to Ferencváros, where he played with György Sárosi and Gyula Lázár and won the championship in 1941. He ended his active career with Újpest FC .

National team

Kalocsay made his debut in the Czechoslovak national team in April 1933 in a 2-1 win over Austria . In 1934 he was a member of the national team at the 1934 World Cup , but was not used in the tournament, where his team only had to admit defeat to the Italians in the extension of the final , as the position of the left winger was fixed with Antonín Puč was occupied. 1935 Kalocsay came to two more missions, the last one in September in a 0-1 against Hungary .

During his time at Ferencváros, Kalocsay also played two games for Hungary in 1940, namely a 3-0 against Switzerland and a 2-2 against Germany .

Career as a coach

Kalocsays coaching career began after the Second World War with lower class clubs such as Nyíregyházi Madisz , Pápai Perutz and Debreceni Dózsa . Then he was a coach at Debreceni Lokomotív and in 1953 he looked after a first division club with Szegedi Honvéd . After stints at Vasas Izzó and Pécsi Dózsa , he began his first international engagement in 1957 and became the supervisor of Partizan Belgrade . After two runner-up titles , he moved to Standard Liège in 1959 , where he won the championship title in 1961.

He then returned to Hungary, where he reached the semi-finals of the European Cup winners' Cup with Újpest in 1962 . In 1963 he went to Algeria and supervised NA Hussein Dey for two years . His next stop was Górnik Zabrze in Poland, where he achieved a championship title and two cup wins.

With Ferencváros he was runner-up in 1971, followed by positions at Videoton SC and MTK Budapest . From 1975 he worked as national coach in Pakistan, after which he took over the coaching position at al Ahly Cairo , where at the end of his career he won two championship titles and the African championship cup .

successes

• 1 × Vice World Champion: 1934
• 1 × Mitropacup winner: 1935
• 1 × winner in the African championship cup: 1982 (as coach)
• 1 × semi-finals Cup winners' Cup: 1962 (as coach)
• 1 × Czechoslovakian champion: 1936
• 1 × Hungarian champion: 1941
• 1 × Belgian champion: 1961 (as coach)
• 1 × Polish champion: 1967 (as coach)
• 2 × Egyptian champions: 1981, 1982 (as trainer)
• 1 × Czechoslovak Cup winner: 1936
• 2 × Polish cup winners: 1968, 1969 (as trainer)
• 1 × Egyptian cup winner: 1981 (as trainer)
• 3 international matches for the Czechoslovak national soccer team
• 2 international matches for the Hungarian national football team