Iuliu Bodola

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Iuliu Bodola
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Personnel
birthday February 26, 1912
place of birth Brassó ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death March 12, 1993
Place of death Budapest , Hungary
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1922-1929 Brașovia Brașov
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1929-1931 CAO Oradea
1931-1932 IAR Brasov
1932-1937 CAO Oradea 89 (62)
1937-1940 Venus Bucharest 61 (47)
1940-1944 Nagyváradi AC 90 (47)
1945-1946 Ferar Cluj 3 0(3)
1946-1949 MTK
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1931-1939 Romania 48 (30)
1940-1948 Hungary 13 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.

Iuliu Bodola or - Hungarian - Gyula Bodola (born February 26, 1912 in Brassó , Austria-Hungary ; † March 12, 1993 in Budapest , Hungary) was a Romanian- Hungarian football player . He completed a total of 334 games in Divizia A and Nemzeti Bajnokság . He also took part in the 1934 World Cup and the 1938 World Cup.

Career

society

Iuliu Bodola started playing football in his hometown of Brașov, but at the age of 17 he joined CAO Oradea - the club where he would spend most of his career. After a one-year interlude in Brașov, he played when the Romanian professional league, Divizia A , was founded in 1932 again in Oradea. In 1937 Bodola got the chance to move to one of the leading Romanian clubs of the 1930s, Venus Bucharest . Here he won the Romanian championship twice and was runner-up once.

In 1940 Bodola returned to Oradea, which belonged to Hungary after the Second Vienna Arbitration and was incorporated into the 2nd Hungarian League as Nagyváradi AC . After the immediate promotion, Bodola won the Hungarian championship. After the end of World War II , Bodola returned to Romania and initially played for Ferar Cluj before joining the MTK from his new Hungarian homeland in 1946 , where he ended his career in 1949.

National team

Bodola played 48 times for the Romanian national soccer team and scored 30 goals. He held the title of record national player and record scorer for several decades and was only replaced 35 years later by Mircea Lucescu (more appearances) and 58 years later by Gheorghe Hagi (more goals). He played his first game on May 10, 1931 against Bulgaria . Bodola took part for Romania in the 1934 World Cup in Italy and the 1938 World Cup in France and was each used once.

Bodola took Hungarian citizenship in 1940 and played a total of 13 games for the Hungarian national football team by 1948 .

successes

  • World Cup participants: 1934, 1938
  • Balkan Cup winners 1929/31, 1933, 1936
  • European cup winners of the national soccer teams (amateurs): 1931/34
  • Friendship Cup winner: 1936, 1939
  • Romanian champion: 1939, 1940
  • Hungarian champion: 1944
  • Hungarian top scorer: 1942

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personal data
SURNAME Bodola, Iuliu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodola, Gyula
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian and Hungarian football players
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Brașov , Romania
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1993