László Fazekas

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Kapa Fazekas
Personnel
Surname László Fazekas
birthday October 15, 1947
place of birth Budapest ,  Hungary
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1957-1965 Újpest Budapest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1965-1980 Újpest Budapest 408 (252)
1980-1984 Royal Antwerp 111 (38)
1984-1985 VV St. Truiden 28 (10)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1968-1983 Hungary 92 (24)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1985-1986 Racing Jet Bruxelles
1986-1988 Eendracht Aalst
1988-1990 RC Harelbeke
1990-1992 Eendracht Aalst
1992-1994 Hungary (assistant coach)
1995-1996 Royal Antwerp
? Berchem Sport
1 Only league games are given.

László "Kapa" Fazekas (born October 15, 1947 in Budapest ) is a former Hungarian football player and coach .

Club career

Fazekas joined Újpesti Dózsa SC at the age of ten and made his debut on the combat team at 18. There he formed an offensive together with Ferenc Bene and Antal Dunai that is one of the most outstanding in Hungarian football history. After two runner-up titles, the Hungarian championship was won in 1969 . In the same year, the team also reached the final in the trade fair cup , where they failed at Newcastle United .

Fazekas was initially somewhat overshadowed by the two older players, who won the title of top scorer no less than seven times between 1967 and 1975 (four times Bene, three times Dunai). Újpest became the dominant force in Hungarian football, winning seven championship titles in a row. However, when the two goal guarantors decreased in productivity, Fazekas took over the role of goal getters in the Újpest attack in the mid-1970s and continued seamlessly where his club colleagues had left off. He was three times the most successful goalscorer in the league, now formed a storm row with László Fekete and András Törőcsik and led the club to two more championship titles. In 1980, with 36 goals, he also won the silver shoe as the second most successful striker in Europe.

In that year he received the permission of the association to move abroad and after 23 years left the Violetten from Budapest to earn his living in Belgium. He signed with Royal Antwerp , where he played for the next four years and achieved a third place in the championship as the best result. He then worked for one season each for VV St. Truiden and Racing Jet de Bruxelles in the second Belgian league before ending his active career.

National team

Fazekas had his first appearance in the national team in May 1968 against the Soviet Union . In the same year he was also part of the Hungarian selection, which took part in the Olympic Games in Mexico and won the gold medal by beating Bulgaria 4-1 , where he was used in all games and scored one goal.

From now on he belonged to the tribe of the national team and also appeared regularly as a goal scorer, but with the qualification for major events it should not work for a long time. It was not until 1978 that the Hungarians were able to fight for participation in the World Cup. In Argentina, however, they had no chance and left after three defeats in the group stage. Four years later the qualification took place again, but also in Spain they were eliminated in the group stage. However, with a 10-1 win against El Salvador, the highest win in the history of world championships, to which Fazekas also contributed two goals.

He played his last game for Hungary in 1983 against Luxembourg . He made a total of 92 appearances, making the second most international matches for the Hungarian association after József Bozsik . He was able to score 24 goals.

Coaching career

After his active career Fazekas stayed in Belgium, took over the coaching position at the second division Eendracht Aalst and only narrowly failed in the promotion playoff in 1988. He then worked for the second division RC Harelbeke , before he took over the Aalster again in 1990 and this time led to the top division with a playoff victory, where the team could not hold up. Later he was assistant to the Hungarian national coach Kálmán Mészöly and then coach at several Belgian clubs, including his former club Royal Antwerp and Berchem Sport .

successes

  • Olympic champion: 1968
  • World Cup participants: 1978, 1982
  • 9 × Hungarian champions: 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979
  • 3 × Hungarian Cup winners: 1969, 1971, 1975
  • 3 × Hungarian top scorer: 1976, 1978, 1980
  • Silver Shoe Winner: 1980
  • Exhibition trophy: 1969 finale
  • European Cup of National Champions: semi-finals 1974
  • 92 games and 24 goals for the Hungarian national football team

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personal data
SURNAME Fazekas, László
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fazekas, Kapa (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest