György Szűcs

György Szűcs
Personnel
birthday	April 23, 1912
place of birth	Szombathely ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	December 10, 1991
Place of death	Budapest ,  Hungary
position	Middle runner
Juniors
Years	station
	Szombathelyi AK
	Testvériség
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1932 - at least 1939	Újpest FC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1934-1939	Hungary	25 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Salgótarjáni BTC
	Dorogi Bányász
	Szegedi EAC
	Diósgyőri VTK
	Tatabányai Bányász
	Szegedi EOL
1966-1967	Iran
1 Only league games are given.

György Szűcs (born April 23, 1912 in Szombathely , Austria-Hungary , † December 10, 1991 in Budapest , Hungary ) was a Hungarian football player and coach who won the Mitropacup and three championship titles with Újpest FC in the 1930s the national team was runner-up in 1938 .

Club career

The middle runner started his football career at Szombathelyi AK before he joined the lower-class Budapest club Testvériség . There he fell on the people in charge of Újpest FC and in 1932 moved to the top club supervised by István Tóth-Potya , where he played in the runner row alongside Antal Szalay . The player developed into an outstanding game designer, who was particularly famous for the precision of his passes, but also impressed with his header game.

The championship title was celebrated in his first season with the violets . The following year they had to admit defeat to Ferencvárosi FC both in the championship and in the cup final, but in 1935 another championship title for the team around Stefan Auer , Jenő Vincze and László Sternberg followed .

After that, it would be four more years before Szűcs won another title. At the end of the 1938/39 season, the team from the fourth district was back at the top of the table and was thus also qualified for the Mitropacup . There the team reached the final with victories over AS Ambrosiana Inter and Beogradski SK , where they met their city rivals from Ferencváros. With 4: 2 and 2: 2 Szűcs' team prevailed and won this title for the second time in the club's history.

National team

The middle runner received his first call-up to the national team in January 1934, when the entire row of runners was called up by Újpest in a 1: 3 defeat against Germany . Despite this unsuccessful debut, Szűcs was able to establish himself quickly in the selection and just a few months later the game designer was part of the team that defeated the English national team 2-1 in Budapest .

At the World Cup in 1934 , he was in both games of the Hungarians, who were eliminated after a 1: 2 against Austria in the quarter-finals. In the next few years, Szűcs was initially able to assert himself in the national team, before he became a competitor through József Turay , who had retrained from striker to runner, who increasingly ousted him from the selection.

Szűcs played the qualifying game for the World Cup in France against Greece , but Turay played in the final round in all games up to the semi-finals. The team was rebuilt for the final and the Újpestmann received the trust of the supervisors. The final was lost 4-2 to the Italians and Szűcs then only played one game for Hungary and ended his career after 25 appearances.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Szűcs started his coaching career and in the 1950s and 60s looked after a number of Hungarian first division clubs, including the Salgótarjáni BTC , Dorogi Bányász , Szegedi EAC , Diósgyőri VTK , Tatabányai Bányász and Szegedi EOL .

From 1966 to 1967 he was the national coach of Iran , with whom he moved into the final of the Asian Games , where the team of Burma was defeated 0-1.

successes

• Vice world champion 1938
• Asian Games: silver medal 1966 (coach)
• Mitropacup: 1939
• 3 × Hungarian champions: 1933, 1935, 1939
• 25 games for the Hungarian national football team: 1934–1939