Máté Fenyvesi

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Máté Fenyvesi
Fenyvesi Máté 2011.jpg
Máté Fenyvesi 2011
Personnel
birthday September 20, 1933
place of birth Jánoshalma ,  Hungary
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1949-1950 Jánoshalmai SE
1950-1953 Kecskeméti TE
1953-1969 Ferencváros Budapest 343 (84)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1954-1966 Hungary 72 0(8)
1 Only league games are given.

Máté Fenyvesi (born September 20, 1933 in Jánoshalma ) is a former Hungarian football player who played at club level for many years at Ferencváros Budapest and was Hungarian champion four times. As a 76-time national player, he also took part in three soccer world championships and one soccer European championship with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Máté Fenyvesi, born in 1933 in Jánoshalma , a small town with now around 10,000 inhabitants in southern Hungary, began playing football at a smaller local club called Jánoshalmai SE . In the jersey of this team he was discovered by the talent scouts of the higher-class club Kecskeméti TE , who signed him in 1950 after just one year in the adult team of Jánoshalma SE. Máté Fenyvesi worked at Kecskeméti for three years until 1953.

In the summer of 1953, Máté Fenyvesi signed a working paper with Ferencváros Budapest in the Hungarian capital. However, only limited success was possible here at the beginning, as Ferencváros did not enjoy the favor of the Stalinist rulers, as they disliked the great popularity of the association among the population, they rather relied on the Honvéd Budapest Army Association , which was established in the years before and after the popular uprising became the most successful football club in Hungary. Nevertheless, it was Ferencváros who was able to bring an international title to Hungary for the first time after the end of the Second World War in 1965 and to this day for the last time. In the course of the Messestädte-Pokal 1964/65 , Spartak Brno ZJŠ from Czechoslovakia , the Wiener Sport-Club from Austria , AS Roma from Italy , Athletic Bilbao from Spain and sensationally Manchester United from England were eliminated one after the other and finally stood in the final, where the Italian top club Juventus Turin waited as an opponent . In front of 40,000 spectators at the Stadio Communale tournament , Ferencváros, who played with players such as Sándor Mátrai , Zoltán Varga and Flórián Albert , beat the favored Italians 1-0. The decisive goal scored Máté Fenyvesi in the 74th minute of the game.

Two years before this historic success at international level, Ferencváros Budapest had already won the Hungarian football championship for the first time since 1949. In Nemzeti Bajnokság I 1962/63 they finished first with six points ahead of MTK Hungária . Up to Máté Fenyvesi's departure from Ferencváros Budapest, three more championships could be won in 1964, 1967 and 1968 and the phase of lack of national successes was finally ended. In the 1967/68 season it was also possible to move into a European final - again in the Messestädte Cup . This time, however, they were defeated by the English representative Leeds United 0: 1 on both legs.

National team

Between 1954 and 1966, Máté Fenyvesi played a total of 72 international matches in the jersey of the Hungarian national football team . There he experienced the phase of decline in Hungarian football. The midfielder made his debut on September 19, 1954 against Romania in the first game of the Hungarian national team after the surprisingly lost World Cup final in Bern , which meant the first defeat of Hungary's national team after four years and 32 games. After the defeat of Wankdorf , Hungary's national team was able to start another winning streak, which came to an abrupt end with the popular uprising of 1956 and the resulting flight of some world-class players to Spain . The end of the great era of Hungarian football was already evident at the 1958 World Cup . The team, in which with Gyula Grosics , József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti only three - sometimes long-aged - members of the Golden Eleven were, failed as the reigning vice world champion in the preliminary round.

Four years later, at the 1962 World Cup in Chile , South America , the situation improved so that the team around players such as Ferenc Sipos , Lajos Tichy or Károly Sándor finished the preliminary round first, even before England, but in the quarter-finals the Czechoslovak team had to give way. The situation was comparable at the 1966 World Championships in England , where after having made further progress in the preliminary round in the quarter-finals, the Soviet Union was too big a hurdle. This 1: 2 in Roker Park in Sunderland was not only the last world championship game for the Hungarian national team until 1978, but also the last international game of the 33-year-old Máté Fenyvesi. He then ended his national team career after 72 games and eight goals.

After retirement

After the end of his active career as a football player in 1969, he continued to be involved in old men games and similar activities for some time. With the political change in Hungary in 1989 and 1990, along with the establishment of a democratic system, Máté Fenyvesi went into politics. From 1990 to 2002 he was a member of the FKgP in the Hungarian parliament .

successes

1964/65 with Ferencváros Budapest
1963, 1964, 1967 and 1968 with Ferencváros Budapest
1958 with Ferencváros Budapest

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personal data
SURNAME Fenyvesi, Máté
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian football player and politician, Member of Parliament
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Jánoshalma , Hungary