Jenő Kalmár

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Jenő Kalmár
Personnel
birthday March 21, 1908
date of death 1990
position Middle runner
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
0000-1933 Hungária MTK FC
1933-1935 Excelsior AC Roubaix
1936-1937 Racing Club Roubaix
1937-1938 Stade Reims
1938-1940 Hungária MTK FC
1940-1944 Kistext SE
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1928-1932 Hungary 15 (4)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1940-1944 Kistext (player-coach)
Hungary (assistant coach)
1947-1948 Csepeli Munkás TE
1951-1956 Budapesti Honvéd SE
1957-1958 SC Wacker Vienna
1958 Sevilla FC
1958-1960 Granada CF.
1960–1962 Hapoel Tel Aviv
1962-1963 FC Porto
1966-1969 RCD Espanyol Barcelona
1970 Real Valladolid
1970-1972 CD Málaga
1972-1973 Hércules Alicante
1978-1980 CD Málaga
1 Only league games are given.

Jenő Kalmár , also János Kalmár , (born March 21, 1908 ; † 1990 ) was a Hungarian football player and coach who won the Hungarian championship as a player with the Budapest Hungária MTK FC and won four more championship titles as a coach before a long coaching career abroad.

Club career

Kalmár's career began in the late 1920s with the Budapest Hungária, where the elegant and versatile player quickly made a name for himself. Most of the time, the technically and tactically excellent Kalmár was set up as a center runner or - despite his not outstanding body size - as a center forward, but was also used in other positions. His precise shots from a greater distance were particularly feared.

In 1929 the blue-whites won their first championship title after the introduction of professional football in Hungary and Kalmár was not only the most successful goalscorer in a series of strikes with 19 goals, which also included Ferenc Hirzer and György Molnár , but also became Hungarian player of the year at the end of the season elected. Kalmár's career was interrupted by several serious injuries, including a broken leg in the fall of 1929. In 1932 he won a second title when Ferencvárosi FC were beaten 4: 3 in the cup final in the replay.

In 1933 he left his regular club and, like a number of other Hungarian professional players, accepted an offer from the French Division 1 , where he earned his money at the Excelsior AC Roubaix . There he played in a team with Heinrich Hiltl and Célestin Delmer and was able to achieve fifth place in his first season in northern France. After that, however, things went less well and in the two following years the team only stayed in the middle of the table. During the season 1935/36 Kalmár left the club, and moved to the Division 2 for local rivals Racing Club Roubaix , which at first than in second achieved promotion to the top flight. There the class could be held the following year, before Kalmár joined the second division Stade Reims for his last year in France .

He then returned to Hungary, where he initially played for Hungária for another two years and then worked as a player- coach at Kistext SE , the lower-class company team of a textile company from Kispest , until 1944 .

National team

Kalmár made his first appearance in the national team in October 1928, when he was used as a left runner in a 5-1 defeat against Austria . Subsequently, he was mostly positioned as a center runner or center forward and scored his first goal in a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia in September 1929 when he defeated František Plánička with a shot from 30 meters away.

After his broken leg, he returned to the national team in 1931, where he was part of the regular cast for the next two years. He made his 15th and last game for Hungary in October 1932, where he scored his fourth goal in a 3-2 draw against Austria. Due to his engagements abroad, he was no longer considered in the national team.

During his time in France, Kalmár was also used in the regional selection of Northern France.

Coaching career

In addition to his work at Kistext, Kalmár was also a member of the national team's coaching staff during the war years. After the end of the war he took over the sporting management of the first division club Csepeli Munkás TE and led the team from the Danube Island to the championship title in the 1947/48 season.

In 1951 he received the offer to look after the army club Budapesti Honvéd SE , which was dominating Hungarian football at the time. Many of the strongest players in the country were concentrated at this club and Kalmár had a team available that included Ferenc Puskás , Sándor Kocsis , József Bozsik , László Budai , Gyula Lóránt , Gyula Grosics , Zoltán Czibor and Lajos Tichy . With this accumulation of talent, Kalmár won three championship titles over the next four years.

In 1956, Honvéd's team was abroad for a European Cup match against Athletic Bilbao when the crackdown on the popular uprising began in Hungary . The team decided not to return to Hungary and, after friendly matches in Europe, took a tour through South America organized by Béla Guttmann . After returning, Kalmár settled in Vienna, where he was initially even discussed as an Austrian association coach, before he took over the coaching position at SC Wacker Vienna in March 1957 and achieved fourth place in the championship twice in a row with the Meidlingers.

In 1958 he followed many of his former players to Spain and, after a brief stint at Sevilla FC, became a coach at Granada FC , which he led to the greatest success in the club's history by reaching the finals at the Copa del Generalísimo in 1959 . The final, however, was lost 4-1 to FC Barcelona , with Kalmár's former protégé Sándor Kocsis scoring two goals for the Catalans.

The following year he accepted the offer from Hapoel Tel Aviv and looked after the team for two years, with one cup win. In the 1962/63 season he was Portuguese runner- up with FC Porto . In 1966 he took over the coaching position at RCD Espanyol Barcelona for three seasons and led the team to a third place in the championship as the best result.

Other coaching stations in Spain were Real Valladolid , Hércules Alicante and the CD Málaga , which twice made it to the top division.

successes

  • 5 × Hungarian champions: 1929 (as a player), 1948, 1952, 1954, 1955 (as a coach)
  • 1 × Hungarian Cup winner: 1932 (as a player)
  • 1 × Israeli Cup winner: 1960 (as a trainer)
  • 15 games and 4 goals for the Hungarian national football team