Gyula Polgár

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Gyula Polgár (Gyula Pignitzky)
Personnel
Surname Gyula Pignitzky
birthday February 8, 1912
place of birth Kistelek ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death June 24, 1992
Place of death Sydney ,  Australia
size 178 cm
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1930 Hungária Budapest 0 0(0)
1931-1932 Budai 11 64 0(?)
1933-1944 Ferencváros Budapest 243 (30)
1945-1947 MTK Budapest 81 0(1)
1947-1948 AC magenta 30 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1932-1942 Hungary 26 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1957-1960 APIA Leichhardt
1959 State selection of New South Wales
1961–1962 South Melbourne Hellas
1962 Pan Hellnic
1964-1965 APIA Leichhardt
0 Hakoah Sydney
1967-1968 Canterbury-Marrickville
1968 St. George Budapest
1 Only league games are given.

Gyula Polgár , actually Gyula Pignitzky (born February 8, 1912 in Kistelek ; † June 24, 1992 in Sydney , Australia ), was a Hungarian football player who took part in the football world championships in 1934 and 1938 with the national team of his home country .

Player career

Club career

Gyula Polgár, born on February 8, 1912 in Kistelek, a town in Csongrád County in Austria-Hungary , began his footballing career at Kisteleki TE before joining the Budapest club Hungária Budapest in 1930, which is now called MTK Budapest FC again . changed. He stayed with Hungária for only one year before joining the smaller capital city club Budai 11 . At the club, which dissolved in 1958, it held Gyula Polgár, who was acting on the position of midfielder, only two years. Then he moved to Ferencváros Budapest , today's record champions in Hungary . At the club, to which he remained loyal until 1944, he played together with other Hungarian football greats of the time such as György Sárosi , József Takács , Béla Sárosi and Géza Toldi . Polgár won four national championship titles with Ferencváros during his time at the club and won the Mitropacup in 1937 . In addition, he won the Hungarian Cup four times and in 1934 Polgár was voted Hungarian Footballer of the Year. After eleven years with Ferencváros Budapest, Gyula Polgár moved back to MTK Budapest. Here he played with Nándor Hidegkuti , the later star of the famous Hungarian Golden Elf . However, Polgár could not win a title with the club. In 1947 he went to Italy for AC Magenta , where he let his career in Serie B end before he announced his retirement in 1948.

National team

Gyula Polgár made 26 international matches for the Hungarian national football team in his career . He made his debut on September 18, 1932 in the 2-1 victory of the Hungarians in Budapest against Czechoslovakia . In his third international match, Polgár also scored his first goal, in a 2-2 draw at the Praterstadion in Vienna against Austria . In total, he scored two goals in his 26 international matches. With the national team of his home country he took part in two soccer world championships . At his first world championship, the 1934 in Italy, he was not used. Four years later in France it was used once. This game was the final of the World Cup in the Stade de Colombes in Paris , when Polgár replaced the previous regular Lajos Korányi due to a tactical decision by the team leadership and formed the defensive duo together with Sándor Bíró . In the final, Hungary lost 4-2 to the defending champions from Italy . Gyula Polgár was active in the Hungarian national team for another four years. He made his last international match on November 1, 1942 in Budapest in a 2-0 win against Switzerland .

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, Polgár became a coach and initially looked after some lower-class clubs before he took over the second division side Pécsi Lokomotív . After the Hungarian uprising , he emigrated to Australia, where he continued his coaching career. With APIA Leichhardt , the association of Italian immigrants in Sydney, he was able to win the city championship and the final of the state championship of New South Wales in 1964 . Other teams he oversaw were South Melbourne Hellas , St. George Budapest , Hakoah Sydney , Pan Hellnic , Canterbury-Marrickville and the state selection of New South Wales (NSW), which he oversaw in 1959 during the big tour of Deportivo Saprissa .

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personal data
SURNAME Polgár, Gyula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pignitzky, Gyula (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH February 8, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Kistelek , Austria-Hungary
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1992
Place of death Sydney , Australia