Jenő Károly

Jenő Károly
Károly with Juventus, 1923–24 season
Personnel
birthday	January 15, 1886
place of birth	Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death	July 28, 1926
Place of death	Turin ,  Italy
position	Middle runner
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1903-1910	MTK Budapest	106 (95)
1910-1919	Budapesti AK
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1903-1918	Hungary	25 (10)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1919-1923	Savona Calcio
1923-1926	Juventus Turin
1 Only league games are given.

Jenő Károly (born January 15, 1886 in Budapest , Austria-Hungary , † July 28, 1926 in Turin , Italy ) was a Hungarian football player and coach . He was the first coach in the history of the Italian record champions Juventus Turin .

Career

Károlys first station as a player was the MTK Budapest , which in 1903 just entered the top Hungarian league . In the debut season , the third place was achieved and Károly took the title of top scorer . As early as 1904 , the blue-whites won their first championship title under coach Sándor Kertész , which was to be followed by another in 1907/08 under Hugó Szüsz . Károly was also able to win the title of most successful goalscorer again. In 1910 he moved to Budapesti AK , where he worked as a middle runner until the end of the decade. Károly was known for his long passes, but was also known as the "Swallow King".

Károly had his first appearance in the national team in April 1903 under coach Ferenc Gillemot in a 2-1 win against Bohemia . For the next ten years he belonged to the tribe of the Hungarian selection and appeared again and again as a goal scorer. In 1912 he was also part of the Hungarian squad at the Olympic Games , but was only used in the 7-0 in the quarter-finals against England . After that, his appearances in the national team were only sporadic, his last game he made in 1918 in a 3-0 win against Austria . He played a total of 25 games and scored ten goals.

According to reports in contemporary Austrian newspapers, Károly is said to have been deputy commandant of a workers' battalion during the time of the Soviet Republic in 1919 . This could have been one of the reasons why he left Hungary after the Soviet government was overthrown.

Károly initially took over the training in 1920 at the Italian club Savona Calcio , which at that time was in the top division - albeit regionally very fragmented. In 1923 Edoardo Agnelli took over the presidency of Juventus FC in Turin and, in addition to making some player purchases, also ensured that a coach was hired for the first time in Turin. The choice fell on Jenő Károly, who initially led the team around Federico Munerati , Virginio Rosetta and Giampiero Combi only to a disappointing sixth group place in the Northern League 1923/24 . In the following season , the team around the Hungarian József Viola was strengthened, this time it was enough for a third place in the group, but again not for participation in the finals. In 1925 further reinforcements were finally brought in with the Hungarian Ferenc Hirzer as well as with Luigi Allemandi and Antonio Vojak . Juventus won the group in 1925/26 and qualified for the final of the Northern League against FC Bologna . In the away game, Juventus drew 2-2 thanks to two Hirzer goals, the home game ended 0-0. The associated excitement was too great for Károly because he suffered a heart attack from which he died a few days later. Viola took over the team and led them with a 2-1 win in the playoff in the finals against Alba Roma where Juventus secured the club's second championship after 1905 with a 7-1 at home and 5-0 away .

József Károly , a younger brother, played for MTK until 1921 and then came to Eintracht Frankfurt via MTV 1879 Munich and 1860 Munich in 1924 , where he stayed until 1926.

successes

• 2 × Hungarian champion : 1904 , 1907/08
• 1 × Italian champion : 1925/26 (as coach)
• 2 × Hungarian top scorer: 1903 , 1905
• 25 games and 10 goals for the Hungarian national football team

Web links

• Jenő Károly in the database of weltfussball.de
• Juventus statistics with photo (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ According to other sources there should have been seven or eleven gates.
2. ↑ Article  in:  Sportblatt am Mittag / Sport-Tagblatt. Sports edition of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt , June 4, 1919, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).