István Lukács

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Lukács (2nd from right) at the 1934 cup final

István Lukács (born October 14, 1912 in Szeged ; † late 1960s), after taking French citizenship also Étienne Lukacs , was a Hungarian football player who played in France for most of his career.

biography

István Lukács came in 1933 either directly from FC Szeged or via the intermediate station Újpest Budapest , where he "had completed his training", in the professional French Division 1 , which was in its second season . Together with him, Georges Bayrou , the president of FC Sète , had also brought his experienced compatriot Márton Bukovi from Ferencváros Budapest to the team from Languedoc . Lukács didn't need a long time to get used to it and benefited from the fact that Sètes coach René Dedieu formed a functioning, attacking unit around high-class players such as the attacking Ivan Bek , Ali Benouna and Jules Monsallier , the outside runner Louis Gabrillargues and goalkeeper René Llense . After the end of the season, the Almanach du football described Sète's performance as "complete in all parts of the team that offered a precise and often spectacular interaction". As a center forward , Lukàcs fulfilled the expectations placed on him from the first game and regularly scored goals for the Dauphins , as the green-whites are called to this day. At the end of the season he had scored 28 goals in 26 league games, which earned him the league's top scorer . At the same time, he helped his team to win the championship title , even though the very strong home FC Sète was only one point ahead of SC Fives and Olympique Marseille and was lucky enough to have their last three games - including a catch-up game, while Lukacs and his Teammates have already played friendlies in French North Africa - lost. Lukács was especially a “masterful header player ” who was “the bogeyman for every defense at every flank and corner”, because “despite close guard he was unstoppable and was always looking for the decision”.

A few weeks before the last game day of the league, Sète and Marseille had already met in the cup final , and there too, István Lukács had demonstrated his class by making up the deficit of his eleven early on and also scoring the 2-1 goal a quarter of an hour before the final whistle scored for Sète. In the previous five main round games, the lion's share of Sètes had a total of 18 hits on his account: ten of them had the "Lukács sender information". The center forward wrote himself in the annals of FC Sète, because the club was the first in France in 1934 to achieve the double of championship and cup victory. One of his teammates, Yves Dupont , later wrote of the “halo” that surrounded the “charming, elegant Étienne Lukacs” in Sète.

Nevertheless, he left Sète after only one year because Olympique Lille made him a financially "insane offer". For last year's fourth , who was also well staffed with Jules Vandooren , Jules Bigot , Jean Snella and the Hungarian André Simonyi , Lukács played in 18 of the 30 point games in the 1934/35 season and also scored ten goals; In the table, however, the northern French only reached seventh place. A year later, the center forward played only twelve games in Division 1 , with only three hits. Understanding and interaction, especially with Simonyi, were "far from the [hoped for] perfection" because both acted too selfishly. After all, he was runner-up behind Racing Paris in 1936 with Lille . He then moved to AS Saint-Étienne , an ambitious second division , who had the reputation of a "million eleven" because he had been buying top players from all over France since the previous season. Among them was Lukács' teammate at FC Sète, Ivan Bek, who scored 91 goals in three years at ASSE, while the newcomer was unable to meet the expectations placed in him there either. After Saint-Étienne missed promotion in third place, Lukács moved to Lausanne-Sports in Switzerland in 1937 . How long he played there and what became of him afterwards cannot yet be determined. In the early 1970s, Yves Dupont reported that István Lukács had since passed away.

Club stations

  • until 1933: FC Szeged
  • 1933/34: FC Sète
  • 1934-1936: Olympique Lille
  • 1936/37: AS Saint-Étienne (in D2)
  • 1937– ?: Lausanne Sports

Palmarès

  • French champion: 1934 (and runner-up in 1936)
  • French cup winner: 1934
  • Division 1 top scorer : 1933/34

literature

  • Yves Dupont: La Mecque du football ou Mémoires d'un Dauphin. Self-published, Sète 1973
  • Paul Hurseau / Jacques Verhaeghe: Olympique Lillois - Sporting Club Fivois - Lille OSC Alan Sutton, Joué-lès-Tours 1997, ISBN 2-84253-080-2
  • L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4
  • Frédéric Parmentier: AS Saint-Étienne, histoire d'une légende. Cahiers intempestifs, Saint-Étienne 2004, ISBN 2-911698-31-2
  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker: La grande histoire des clubs de foot champions de France. Sélection du Reader's Digest, Paris / Bruxelles / Montréal / Zurich 2001, ISBN 2-7098-1238-X

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ↑ Rethacker, p. 20
  2. ↑ a b Hurseau / Verhaeghe, p. 25
  3. ^ Hubert Beaudet: Le Championnat et ses champions. 70 ans de Football en France. Alan Sutton, Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire 2002, ISBN 2-84253-762-9 , p. 15
  4. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1933/34. Paris 1934, p. 60
  5. ^ Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , p. 133
  6. ↑ Rethacker, p. 21
  7. ↑ a b c Dupont, p. 339
  8. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 350
  9. ↑ L'Équipe / Ejnès, p. 124
  10. ↑ Dupont, p. 340
  11. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1934/35. Paris 1935, p. 71
  12. ↑ Almanach du football éd. 1935/36. Paris 1936, p. 45
  13. ↑ Parmentier, pp. 20ff.
  14. ↑ Parmentier, pp. 271f .; Lukács does not find any special mention at the AS Saint-Étienne (see his data sheet (as Istvan Luckacs) at anciensverts.com, accessed on January 14, 2012).
  15. ^ Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 45
personal data
SURNAME Lukács, István
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lukacs, Etienne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-French soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Szeged
DATE OF DEATH between 1965 and 1970