Lajos Csordás

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Lajos Csordás
Personnel
birthday October 26, 1932
place of birth Budafok ,  Hungary
date of death 5th April 1968
Place of death Budapest ,  Hungary
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1950-1962 Vasas Budapest 226 (104)
1962-1963 Csepel SC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1952-1959 Hungary 19 00(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1966-1967 Vasas Budapest
1968 Budafoki MTE
1 Only league games are given.

Lajos Csordás (born October 26, 1932 in Budafok , † April 5, 1968 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian football player. He took part in the 1954 World Cup with the national team of his home country and won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics two years earlier .

Career

Club career

Lajos Csordás began his football career in 1950 with the club Vasas SC from Hungary's capital Budapest. There he played together with other Hungarian football greats of the time such as Dezső Bundzsák , Gyula Lóránt or László Sárosi . Overall, Csordás stayed with Vasas until 1962. During this time he won the Hungarian football championship three times with the club . In 1957 they took first place in the table with one point ahead of MTK Hungária, today's MTK Budapest FC . The second title win at national level came in 1960/61, when they came first with four points before Újpesti Dózsa, now Újpest Budapest . In the following season, the last of Csordás at Vasas, the club reached the title defense with two points again before Újpest Dózsa. During his time at Vasas SC, Lajos Csordás was able to win the Hungarian Football Cup once , in the 1955 season they won the final against Honvéd Budapest . Csordás even won the Mitropa Cup four times with Vasas . In 1956, 1957, 1960 and 1960 Vasas won the Mitropa Cup, which at that time was one of the most important European Cup competitions. In the 1957/58 European Cup , he was in the semi-finals with Vasas Budapest, where they lost 4-0 at the Estadio Santiago Bernabéu in Madrid against the White Ballet of Real Madrid with world stars like Alfredo Di Stéfano , Raymond Kopa or Francisco Gento . However, the second leg won 2-0 in front of 100,000 spectators in the Népstadion in Budapest against what was probably the best club team in the world at the time, but was eliminated anyway.

Overall, Lajos Csordás stayed with Vasas SC until 1962, before joining the smaller club Csepel SC from the Budapest district of Csepel in the south of the city. In the second division, who had just been relegated to the second division when Csordá arrived , he let his active footballing career end until 1963. Then, after a few years away from active football business, he became a coach at his old club Vasas Budapest in 1966, but resigned after only one year and went to the provincial club Budafoki MTE, which he coached in 1968. In the same year Lajos Csordás died in Budapest at the age of only 35.

National team

In the Hungarian national football team Lajos Csordás was used 19 times between 1952 and 1959. He scored eight goals in these 19 games. He took part in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland with the national soccer team of his home country . Since there were numerous world stars in front of him in his attacking position with players like Ferenc Puskás , Zoltán Czibor or Sándor Kocsis , he was not used in the tournament. His team, however, finished second after losing to Germany in the final at the Wankdorf Stadium in Bern , after Hungary had been unbeaten for four years. Csordás had previously participated with Hungary in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki and won the gold medal there. On the way to the title he was used in two of the five games of his team, but he did not succeed in scoring. The Hungarian team finally won the Olympic football tournament with a final 2-0 in the final in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium against Yugoslavia after goals from Puskás (70th minute) and Czibor (88th minute).

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personal data
SURNAME Csordás, Lajos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Budafok
DATE OF DEATH 5th April 1968
Place of death Budapest