József Braun

József Braun
József Braun (fourth from right in 1924)
Personnel
birthday	February 26, 1901
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	February 1943
position	Right winger
Juniors
Years	station
0000-1916	VAC Budapest
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1916-1925	MTK Budapest
	Brooklyn Hakoah
	Brooklyn Wanderers
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1918-1926	Hungary	28 (11)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1935-1938	1. ČsŠK Bratislava
	LAFC Lučenec
	FTC Filakovo
1 Only league games are given.

József "Csibi" Braun , Hungarian also József Barna , (born February 26, 1901 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † February 1943 ) was a Hungarian football player and football coach .

Club career

József Braun played in his youth at VAC Budapest , but was discovered in 1916 by Jimmy Hogan , the new English coach of MTK Budapest , and brought to the blue and white. Hogan built a team of established players like Imre Schlosser and Alfréd Schaffer as well as talented young players like Braun and György Orth , which was to become the cornerstone for long-term dominance of Hungarian football. Braun made his debut in the 1916/17 season and was able to celebrate his first championship title straight away. In the following season, the tall player was able to secure a regular position on the right wing, which he would hold for the next seven years, but was plagued by injuries over the course of his career.

Braun is still one of the best right wingers in the history of Hungarian football and was particularly known for his speed, ball control and the accuracy of his crosses. The MTK won nine championship titles in a row from 1917 to 1925, plus two cup wins. In 1919 Braun was voted Hungarian Footballer of the Year.

Due to his injuries he had to end his career early, but tried a comeback in the late 1920s when he ran up in the American Soccer League for the Brooklyn Hakoah and the Brooklyn Wanderers .

National team

Braun made his first appearance in the national team at the age of 17 in October 1918 in a 3-0 win against Austria . In his second international match a few months later, he scored the decisive goal to make it 2-1 against the same opponent. In the next few years he was a fixture on the Hungarians' right attacking side and led his team as captain to the Summer Olympics in 1924 , where one could justifiably hope for a successful performance. After a clear victory over Poland in the first round , however, there was a sensational 0: 3 against Egypt and thus an early elimination from the tournament, with Braun missing a penalty that would have meant an equalization in the meantime. After an injury break, he made the leap to the national team again in 1926, but ended his career in December of that year with a 3: 3 against Portugal . He scored eleven goals in 28 games for Hungary.

Coaching career

After his active career, Braun worked as a trainer in Slovakia, where he was in charge of the 1st ČsŠK Bratislava from 1935 to 1938 . He also headed the LAFC Lučenec and the FTC Filakovo .

After his football career ended, he worked as a bank clerk. As a native Jew, he was drafted into the labor service in 1942, where he died in the Ukraine in 1943.

successes

• 9 × Hungarian champions: 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
• 2 × Hungarian Cup winners: 1923, 1925
• 28 games and eleven goals for the Hungarian national football team