Nicolae Kovacs
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | December 29, 1911 | |
| place of birth | Plugova , Romania | |
| date of death | 7th July 1977 | |
| Place of death | Timișoara , Romania | |
| position | striker | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1924-1928 | Chinezul Timișoara | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1928-1930 | Banatul Timișoara | |
| 1931 | Ripensia Timișoara | |
| 1931-1935 | CAO Oradea | 47 (12) |
| 1935 | Ripensia Timișoara | 4 ( 1) |
| 1936 | US Valenciennes | ? ( ?) |
| 1936-1938 | CAO Oradea | 39 (14) |
| 1938-1940 | Tricolor CFPV Ploieşti | 21 ( 8) |
| 1940 | FC Ploieşti | ? ( ?) |
| 1940-1943 | Nagyváradi AC | ? ( ?) |
| 1943-1945 | Gamma FC Budapest | ? ( ?) |
| 1945-1947 | Ferar Cluj | 4 ( 0) |
| 1948 | Crișana CFR Oradea | ? ( ?) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1929-1938 | Romania | 37 (6) |
| 1941 | Hungary | 1 (1) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1946– ? | Covasna | |
| ? –1948 | Mediaș | |
| 1948-1949 | ICO Oradea | |
| 1950-1957 | Știința Timișoara | |
| 1957-1963 | Nădrag | |
| 1963-1973 | Timișoara | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Nicolae Kovacs or Miklós Kovács (born December 29, 1911 in Plugova , Austria-Hungary , today Caraş-Severin County , Romania ; † July 7, 1977 in Timişoara ) was a Romanian football player and coach of Hungarian descent. To avoid confusion with surnames, he was sometimes referred to as Kovacs I in the Romanian sports press . He was one of only four players in all three football world championships before World War II .
Career as a player
Nicolae Kovacs began playing football in 1924 in the youth of Chinezul Timișoara . In 1928 he moved to Banatul Timișoara for two years and from there in 1931 briefly to Ripensia Timișoara . Between 1931 and 1935 he stormed for CAO Oradea and after another intermezzo of 4 games for Ripensia he left Romania for France in the winter. However, he only spent the second half of the 1935/36 season at US Valenciennes before returning to CAO Oradea. After the 1937/38 season he moved to Tricolor CFPV Ploieşti , which was relegated to Divizia B in 1939 and renamed FC Ploieşti in 1940 . In that year, Kovacs also succeeded in rising again. He then returned at the end of 1940 to 1943 again to CAO Oradea, which played as Nagyváradi AC in Hungary as a result of the Second Vienna Award . During the last two years of the war, 1943 to 1945, he played for Gamma FC Budapest . After the end of the war he moved to Ferar Cluj for two and a half years . Kovacs ended his playing career in 1948 after he was accrued in the second half of the 1947/48 season for Crișana CFR Oradea .
National team
Kovacs completed a total of 37 international matches for the Romanian national soccer team . He made his debut on September 15, 1929 against Bulgaria . He was then the only player alongside the French Edmond Delfour , Étienne Mattler and the Belgian Bernard Voorhoof at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay, the 1934 World Cup in Italy and the 1938 World Cup in France. There he played his last international match for Romania on June 5 as captain against Cuba .
In 1940, after the Second Vienna Arbitration , part of Romania fell to Hungary. As a result, Kovacs came to work for the Hungarian national soccer team in 1941 .
Career as a coach
Kovacs worked as a trainer in Covasna and Mediaș between 1946 and 1948 . From 1948 he was in charge of ICO Oradea , with which he promptly won the Romanian championship title in 1949. Between 1950 and 1957 he supervised Știința Timișoara with a few interruptions , with whom he rose to Divizia A in 1952 . He was supported by his former teammates Rudolf Bürger and Zoltán Beke . From 1957 to 1963 Kovacs worked as a coach in Nădrag and from 1963 to 1973 he coached lower-class teams from Timișoara . In 1973 he had to retire from the coaching business for health reasons.
successes
- World Cup participants: 1930, 1934, 1938
- Balkan Cup winner 1929/31, 1933
- European cup winners of the national soccer teams (amateurs): 1931/34
Private
Nicolae Kovacs is the older brother of Ștefan Kovács , the long-time coach of Ajax Amsterdam .
literature
- Mihai Ionescu / Răzvan Toma / Mircea Tudoran: Fotbal de la A la Z . Mondocart Pres, Bucharest 2001, ISBN 973-8332-00-1 , p. 265-266 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tables/30-38wcactive.html Participant in the first three world championships
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kovacs, Nicolae |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kovács, Miklós |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Romanian soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 29, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plugova , Austria-Hungary , today Caraș-Severin County , Romania |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th July 1977 |
| Place of death | Timișoara |