László Sternberg

László Sternberg
Personnel
birthday	May 28, 1905
date of death	1982
Juniors
Years	station
	VAC Budapest
	Zuglói VII kerület AC
	Ékszerész SC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1925-1926	Unione Sportiva Novese
1926-1927	SG Andrea Doria
1927-1928	Újpest FC
1928	New York Giants
1928-1932	New York Hakoah
1932	New York Americans
1932-1936	Újpest FC
1936-1937	Red Star Paris
1938-1943	New York Americans
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1928-1936	Hungary	19th
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1937-1938	Újpest FC
1 Only league games are given.

László Sternberg (born May 28, 1905 , † 1982 ) was a Hungarian football player and football coach .

Career

At the beginning of his career, László Sternberg played at VAC Budapest , Zuglói VII kerület AC and Ékszerész SC . After the latter was banned in 1925 because of a bribery affair, he left the club and, like many Hungarians, moved to Italy in the mid-1920s . There the defender received a contract with the second division club Unione Sportiva Novese , who had been Italian champions three years earlier (but in a year in which there were two championships between competing associations). The club withdrew from the championship during the game year and the Hungarian moved to the top division in 1926 to SG Andrea Doria , where he became a regular.

From 1927 onwards, only players of Italian descent could be used in the Italian football championship, which forced Sternberg to leave Italy. He returned to Hungary and joined Újpest FC . With the Budapesters he finished third in the championship and was called up for the first time in March 1928 in the national team , where he made his debut in the 3: 4 defeat against Italy in the context of the European Cup 1927-1930 .

After this season he accepted an offer from the United States and moved to the American Soccer League for the New York Giants , where his compatriots Béla Guttmann and Ernö Schwarz were also under contract. After just a month and seven missions, the soccer war broke out , which led to a split in the league. Sternberg signed with the newly founded New York Hakoah , which played in the Eastern Soccer League and where Hungarian national players such as Lajos Fischer and Dezső Grósz also played alongside the emigrated players from SC Hakoah Vienna . The Hakoah won the US Open Cup against St. Louis Madison Kennels , with Sternberg playing in both finals. In 1929 the two leagues were reunified and Sternberg stayed with the club, which was now merged with Brooklyn Hakoah, until 1932 and then played briefly for the New York Americans , Ernö Schwarz's team.

After the league got into economic difficulties, Sternberg returned to Hungary and played again at Újpest. With the Budapesters he won the Hungarian championship title twice in four seasons and also played in the national team again. At the World Cup in 1934 he was the captain of the Hungarians, which failed in the quarterfinals to Austria. He played his last game for the national team in May 1936 against Italy.

In 1936 he moved to France, where he played for Red Star Paris . In the 1937/38 season he worked as a coach at Újpest. He then returned to the United States, where he ran for the New York Americans until 1943. He then worked as an arbitrator in New York.

successes

• 2 × Hungarian champion : 1933, 1935
• 1 × US Open Cup winner ; 1929
• 19 games for the Hungarian national football team

Remarks

1. ↑ A source also mentions FC Sète as one of its stations in France, but this could not be verified.
2. ↑ It is possible that Sternberg was also active as a player in US football for considerably longer. A newspaper report from 1948 names a Laszlo Sternberg in the line-up of the New York Hungarians against the visiting Ferencvárosi Torna Club .