György Orth

György Orth
György Orth (around 1920)
Personnel
birthday	April 30, 1901
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	January 11, 1962
Place of death	Porto ,  Portugal
Juniors
Years	station
	ILK
	Terézvárosi SK
	Erzsébetvárosi AC
	Vasas Budapest
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	Vasas Budapest
0000-1929	MTK Budapest
1929	Budai 33
1932/33	Bocskai FC	1 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1917-1927	Hungary	32 (13)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1927	MTK Budapest
1930	Chile
1932-1933	Bocskai FC
1932-1934	AC Messina
1934-1935	Pisa SC
1935	AS L'Aquila
1935-1936	Genoa CFC
1936-1939	1. FC Nuremberg
1939	FC Metz
1939-1940	ACF Catania
1940-1942	AC Savona
1944	CA San Lorenzo de Almagro
1945	Rosario Central
1945	CA San Lorenzo de Almagro
1946-1949	Club Deportivo Guadalajara
1947	Mexico
1949-1950	Asturias Club
1950-1951	Club America
1954	Boca Juniors
1955-1956	Selección Valle
1957-1959	Peru
1961–1962	FC Porto
1 Only league games are given.

György Orth , Hungarian and György Faludi , (* the 30th April 1901 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † 11 January 1962 in Porto , Portugal ) was a Hungarian football player and coach .

He is considered one of the outstanding European players of the 1920s and was just as famous for his scoring risk as for his elegant style of play, which a contemporary sports paper described as follows: Watching Orth play is for anyone with just a little sense of the beauty that lies in the agility of the human body is always a delight. Orth is not a player like many others, he is a true artist in his field. He has shown that the game of football can also be an art that arouses aesthetic pleasure. His versatility is documented by the fact that he was used in five different positions in the Hungarian national team alone during his career .

Club career

Orth's first club in Budapest was the ILK , an independent youth team that played as part of the Association of Youth Clubs and to which a number of later national players belonged. About the lower-class clubs Terézvárosi SK and Erzsébetvárosi AC he came to Vasas SC when he was not yet 15 years old , where he was soon used in the first team.

Only one year later he switched to MTK Budapest , where he found an important sponsor in the English coach Jimmy Hogan . Hogan built a team of established players such as Imre Schlosser and Alfréd Schaffer as well as talented young players such as Orth and József Braun , which should be the cornerstone for long-term dominance of Hungarian football. At the beginning Orths place was mainly in the defense, where he played alongside Gyula Feldmann , but when Gyula Mándi joined the blue-whites, Orth was preferred to the storm row in the 1919/20 season, where he was the emigrated Schaffer replaced and immediately became the most successful goalscorer in the Hungarian league . Also in the following two seasons he should win the title of the marksman king. With the MTK he won eight championship titles in a row and one cup win.

In September 1925 the MTK competed in Vienna for a friendly against the Wiener Amateur SV , where Orth suffered a serious knee injury in a duel with Johann Tandler . Orth had to take a break for over a year and returned to the team in autumn 1926. However, his injury continued to bother him and he did not find his way back to his old level. After he had also looked after the MTK in 1927 and after another forced break, he tried again in 1929 to make a comeback at Budai 33 , but then ended his active career.

National team

Orth had his first appearance in the national team at the age of sixteen in November 1917, when they won 2-1 against Austria . In the following years he belonged to the solid tribe of Hungarians, where he was mostly used as a center forward or center runner. In 1924 the Hungarians took part in the Summer Olympics, where they could justifiably hope for a successful result. After a clear win over Poland in the first round , however, there was a sensational 0: 3 against Egypt and thus an early elimination from the tournament, with Orth playing in both games. After his injury he returned to the national team, but played his last game in October 1927 in a 1: 2 against Czechoslovakia . In total, he came to 32 missions and scored 13 goals.

Coaching career

Beginnings in Chile

It is reported that Orth was studying sports science in Berlin at the end of the 1920s. For the first edition of the Football World Cup in Uruguay in 1930 he was hired by the Chilean Federation as national coach. In Chile he received a star-worthy reception. In a non-professional environment at the time, he proved to be the most important innovator since David Arellano , the legendary player and co-founder of the top club CSD Colo-Colo . With the 2-3-5 system, he introduced a coordinated tactical concept, had five hours of training a day and also attached importance to a sport-appropriate diet for the players.

The achievements of the national team at the World Cup were widely recognized. After victories against Mexico and France , Chile only had to admit defeat to eventual finalist Argentina . Statistically, Chile took fifth place in this tournament, which has so far only been exceeded by third place in the 1962 World Cup held in its own country . The then 29-year-old Orth is still the second youngest coach of a team that took part in a World Cup finals. Only Juan José Tramutola is a year younger  - from Orth's opponent Argentina.

These three games remained his only on the bench of the national team, because due to the geographic location of Chile, regular international matches as such remained difficult for a long time. As a result, he held courses at clubs such as Colo-Colo, Audax Italiano and CD Green Cross and also led them through friendship games. In 1932 he became a professor at the College of Physical Education in Santiago .

Return to Europe

However, the economic circumstances of that time made it advisable to return to Europe. At the end of September 1932 he was appointed coach of the Hungarian first division club Bocskai FC . The club from Debrecen , founded in 1926 and cup winners from 1930, finished the season in fourth place. Orth played a league game again this season.

Then he trained in Italy. First he replaced the Austrian Engelbert König during the 1932/33 season at the second division promoted AC Messina . After a tenth place in the first year, it was enough for fifth place in the second. The 1934/35 season he began with Pisa SC , who played in Group A of Serie B. Seven game days before the end of the season there was a coaching swap with AS L'Aquila from Group B. His compatriot József "Giuseppe" Ging drove in the remaining games only one victory with Pisa, which was third in the end. Orth was a little more successful with L'Aquila, who finished the season in fourth. In the following season he looked after Genoa CFC , which was promoted first in Group A, and led the club to eighth place in Serie A.

In autumn 1936 he took over training with the reigning German champions 1. FC Nürnberg . In the first season he won the Bavarian Gaume Championship with the Franks and then also reached the final of the German championship , which was lost 2-0 against FC Schalke 04 . In the following season, they won the Gaume Championship again, but in the German Championship it was the end of the group phase with second place behind SV Waldhof Mannheim . After the season 1938/39 with a disappointing fifth in the Gaumeisterschaft, even a place behind local rivals BSG WCG Neumeyer Nürnberg ended, the club decided not to further service Orth and hired for the first time from the neighboring club SpVgg Fürth coming Alv Riemke in his place at .

Even before the last game day of the Bavarian Gauliga, his commitment by the French club FC Metz , eighth of the first division 1938/39, was announced in March 1939 . Orth possibly led the club from Lorraine through a few preparatory games for the new season, but the start of the Second World War in September made all arrangements null and void: FC Metz did not take part in the 1939/40 championship, which was reorganized due to the war . But soon he was back in Italy. At the end of October, after the seventh game day of Serie B 1939/40, he was already the third coach at the second division ACF Catania during the current season. Orth could not prevent the relegation. In the following two seasons he coached the second division AC Savona in Liguria , with whom he narrowly failed in promotion in the first year .

Back in South America

Then he returned to South America. In 1944 he trained in Buenos Aires the CA San Lorenzo de Almagro with which he finished the season in fourth. The following year he was from the ninth matchday in May to the 24th matchday in October coach at Rosario Central . He then returned once more to San Lorenzo de Almagro, where he replaced his resigned compatriot Emérico Hirschl . Rosario was eleventh at the end of the season, San Lorenzo fourth again.

An Argentine living in Mexico recommended him in 1946 to the Club Deportivo Guadalajara , which he coached until 1949 and during this time he achieved the club's first participation in the cup final in 1948 , which was lost 3-1 to CD Veracruz . His last season at the club ended prematurely. In 1947 he also coached the Mexican national team in two games and won victories against the USA and Cuba in Havana . These were games of the three national teams for a North American championship held in Cuba .

The last season at Guadalajara ended with relative success. Third place was Guadalajara's greatest league success up to then. It is widely recognized that Orth left behind professionalized structures that represented a useful basis for the future success of the association. In the short term, however, the association could no longer financially afford Orth. He moved on to Mexico City and coached Club Asturias in the 1949/50 season , one of the old masters of the amateur era until 1942, the first professional champion and still today record cup winner. At the end of the game year, which he finished fifth, Asturias also had to pay tribute to the economic conditions of the time and withdrew his team from professional gaming. With a 2: 4 defeat on the last match day against CF Atlante , the team trained by Orth said goodbye to big football.

At the beginning of the 1950/51 season he coached Club America in Mexico City, but was replaced there in the middle of the season.

In 1954 he was back in Buenos Aires, where he took over Boca Juniors during the current season and led to sixth place in the championship.

Between 1955 and 1956 he successfully coached the selection team of the Valle del Cauca department known as Selección Valle in Colombia . This team still enjoys a legendary reputation and was the foundation of the national team that defeated Uruguay 1-0 at the 1957 South American Championship in Peru , in what was once Colombia's first win over an established team.

Between 1957 and 1959 he was responsible for the national team of Peru . At the South American Championships in 1957 and 1959 , he managed to place fourth. In qualifying for the 1958 World Cup, the team failed because of Brazil. The 4-1 win in a friendly against England on May 17, 1959 in Lima is still considered one of the national team's greatest games. His work with the national team was recognized as a style-defining factor and he is still considered one of the best coaches in its history.

After almost three decades of absence, Orth wanted to return to Hungary. For the 1961/62 season he was still obliged by the Portuguese club Sporting Lisbon . Sporting replaced the Argentinian Alfredo González with the Brazilian Otto Glória during the course of the previous season and was determined to contest the new season with him. It was fortunate that FC Porto showed an interest in Orth and ultimately signed him. Sporting, where Otto Glória resigned after four matchdays because he felt unfairly criticized, and Porto fought head-to-head for the title until the end, leaving SL Benfica , who won the European Cup that same season the national champions successfully defended back. In the end, the “Lions” from Lisbon were two points ahead. In addition to the national team captain Virgílio Marques and Hernâni Ferreira da Silva , the Brazilian Azumir , the season's top scorer with 23 goals, was one of the better-known players of this FC Porto team.

György "Jorge" Orth shouldn't see the end of the season. After morning training on January 11, 1962, he went home for a lunch break. He shouldn't return to the field. His wife called the club doctor, who could only confirm death from heart failure. Orth was 60 years old.

successes

• 8 × Hungarian champions : 1917/18 , 1918/19 , 1919/20 , 1920/21 , 1921/22 , 1922/23 , 1923/24 , 1924/25
• 1 × Hungarian Cup winner : 1922/23
• 3 × Hungarian top scorer: 1919/20, 1920/21, 1921/22
• 2 × champions of Gauliga Bayern : 1936/37 , 1937/38 (as coach)
• 1 × German runner-up : 1936/37 (as trainer)
• 1 × North American Championship : 1947 (as a coach)
• 32 games and 13 goals for the Hungarian national football team

Web links

Commons : György Orth  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• György Orth in the database of weltfussball.de

Remarks

1. ^ Illustrated sports paper, June 19, 1925
2. ^ Sergio Gilbert J .: El entrenador , El Mercurio , Santiago de Chile, September 17, 2004.
3. ↑ Sebastián Salinas: Por empuje Y Coraje. Los Albos en la época amateur 1925-1933 , Central de Estadísticas Deportivas (CEDEP), 2004, p. 241 f. ISBN 956-299-125-3 .
4. ↑ Sport-Tagblatt, Vienna, September 27, 1932, p. 5.
5. ^ Il Littoriale , Rome, April 19, 1935, p. 4.
6. ^ Das Kleine Blatt, Vienna, March 12, 1939, p. 23.
7. ^ Roberto Quartarone: Sicilian Clubs in Series B , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , June 4, 2006.
8. ↑ Davide Rota: Hungarian Players and Coaches in Italy , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , July 26, 2012.
9. ↑ Año 1945: San Lorenzo Finalizo Cuarto  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , La enciclopedia de San Lorenzo en somoscuervos.com.ar (as of December 3, 2012).
10. ↑ Erik Francisco Lugo: CD Guadalajara , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , March 28, 2012.
11. ↑ Macario Reyes Padilla: Mexico - International Results Details 1940-1959 , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , May 18, 2002
12. ^ Neil Morrison: North American Championship 1947 , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , October 4, 1999.
13. ↑ Camazotz: El Club Asturias , Fútbol sin compromisos, July 25, 2012.
14. ↑ Erik Francisco Lugo: CF América , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , March 28, 2012.
15. ↑ Trayectoria y Biografía de Entrenadores: Orth, Gyory , Historia de Boca Juniors (as of December 4, 2012).
16. ↑ Hernán Peláez Restrepo: Nada cambia , El Espectador , Medellin, June 12, 2011.
17. ↑ Jose Orlando Ascencio: El primer grande que cayó , El Tiempo , Medellín, August 15, 2000.
18. ↑ Perú 4 - Inglaterra 1 (1959) , Arkivperu, April 24, 2009.
19. ^ Max Gehringer, Placar : A Saga de Jules Rimet, Rio de Janeiro, 1962, p. 14.
20. ^ Rui Miguel Tovar: Cardozo já sabe contar até oito. Mas isso ainda é pouco para Eusébio e Júlio , iOnline, February 24, 2012.