Miklós Páncsics

Miklós Páncsics

Miklós Páncsics (born February 4, 1944 in Gara , † August 7, 2007 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian football player .

Athletic career

Páncsics played most of his career at Ferencváros Budapest , where he made his debut in the 1963 National Championship . When the club became national champions in the 1964 season , the defender was still the same as when he won the Messestädte Cup in 1964/65 - here he was not called up by coach József Mészáros in the 1-0 final victory over Juventus Turin - mainly a substitute, two years later, however, he had established himself as a regular player and won the championship again with the team in the 1967 and 1968 seasons . At the same time, he advanced to the national team, in October 1967 he made his debut as part of qualifying for the European Championship finals in 1968 in the 0-1 defeat against the GDR national team in Leipzig in the jersey of the Hungarian selection . Although the qualification for the UEFA tournament was missed, in the summer of the following year he took part in the football competition of the 1968 Summer Olympics. There the defender with the number “4” on his back did not miss any of the six games on the way to the gold medal, which was won with a 4-1 final victory over Bulgaria.

1972 was a similarly successful year for Páncsics. In the spring, the defensive player led the Hungarian national team onto the field for the first time as team captain, when they lost a friendly game with goals from Paul Breitner and Uli Hoeneß in March of that year with a 2-0 defeat against the German national team . After winning another national title in the spring with the Hungarian National Cup , he took part in the European Championship finals in Belgium that summer . After a 1-0 defeat against the Soviet Union in the semifinals, he replaced the regular captain Ferenc Bene, who was eliminated early in that game, in the game for third place . A medal was missed after a 2-1 loss to Belgium . This, in turn, he won at the Summer Olympics in Munich , when the finals again succeeded. Despite a 1-0 lead after a goal by Béla Várady , the team left the Munich Olympic Stadium with a 2-1 defeat against Poland only with the silver medal, as Kazimierz Deyna turned the game around with a brace in the second half (and with it crowned sole tournament goal scorer). In September 1973, Páncsics played the last of its official 37 A-internationals, plus 13 games in two final Olympic tournaments. He had remained without a goal.

Páncsics ran for Ferencváros until 1974, when he said goodbye to the club after more than 300 competitive games by winning the national cup again. He was then in the squad for three seasons at Honvéd Budapest . Between 1977 and 1981 he played for the Budapesti Építők SC .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann: Miklós Páncsics. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (English). 
2. ↑ Páncsics Miklós - national football team player. Retrieved June 22, 2017 (English).