Nicolas Ladanyi

Nicolau Ladanyi
Nicolas Ladany, 1931
Personnel
birthday	April 7, 1889
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1930-1933	Botafogo FC
1933-1934	America FC
1934 - at least 1940	Liga de Sports da Marinha
1939	Botafogo FC (assistant coach)

Nicolas Ladany (also Nicolau Ladanyi , born April 7, 1889 ) was a Hungarian football coach. In Brazil he coached Botafogo FC in Rio de Janeiro between 1930 and 1933, from which today's Botafogo FR emerged . With the club he won the state championship of Rio de Janeiro in 1930 and 1932.

Ladany, often referred to as Capitão Ladany , "Captain Ladany" in Brazil , was with the Austrian armed forces and took part in the First World War with them. After the war he emigrated to the USA, where he did sports studies. After his naturalization, he also became director of the Aeskulap Health Institute in New York, as he reported.

In 1930 he went to Brazil and was signed by the legendary Botafogo President Paulo Antônio Azeredo in the middle of the year and replaced the Englishman Charles Williams , who remained as assistant coach. At Botafogo he "developed a training program inspired by psychoanalysis". The stars of the team included Carvalho Leite , Nilo and Martim Silveira . In mid-1933 he was succeeded by the doctor Victor Guisard .

The five national championship titles won in the years from 1930 to 1935 were the first of the club after the three titles won between 1907 and 1912 and at the same time describe the first heyday of Botafogo. Similar successes did not return until the late 1950s, when Botafogo won three national championships between 1957 and 1962 with players like Garrincha , Nílton Santos and Valdir "Didi" Perreira .

From 1933 to 1934 he coached America FC in Rio. He then returned to the USA for a few months. Back in Rio, from October 1934 he coached the Liga de Sports da Marinha , the navy team, with which he remained connected until the early 1940s and also took part in the qualification for the 1936 Campeonato dos Campeões . In May 1939 he returned to Botafogo for a few weeks, where he worked on the staff of head coach José "Juca da Praia" Ferreira Lemos . Botafogo was later taken over by Ladany's famous compatriot Izidor Kürschner .

In 1939 he also appeared as part of the publicity department of the Urca casino - world famous at the time, including Carmen Miranda -, of which he later became artistic director. In the further course of his career he became part of the management of the Hotel Quitandinha at Petrópolis , which at the time enjoyed world-famous guests such as Jayne Mansfield . He has been described as "closely related to Rio show business in the casino era".

His daughter Glória Ladany began as a dancer in Carlos Machado's great variety shows in the mid-1950s, but soon developed into a respected actress who was regularly seen on the stages of Rio for the next two decades. From the late 1950s, she also got some roles in films and television. She gained a special reputation as a versatile voice actress who gave many international stars of that era a Brazilian voice.

Web links

• Rui Moura: Nicolas Ladanyi: o supertreinador , Mundo * Botafogo, July 7, 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Diário Oficial da União, July 31, 1940, p. 5: “ A Nicolau Ladanyi, natural da Hungria, nascido, a 7 de april de 1889, filho de Martin Ladanyi e de Mitria Zoldi, casado, resident nesta Capital. ”(Naturalization notices).
2. ^ Sérgio Augusto: Botafogo: entre o céu eo inferno. Ediouro Publicações, 2004