Sándor Gellér

Sándor Gellér
Personnel
birthday	July 12, 1925
place of birth	Veseuș ,  Romania
date of death	March 13, 1996
Place of death	Budapest ,  Hungary
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1945-1947	Püspökladányi SC
1947-1962	MTK Húngaria	260 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1950-1956	Hungary	8 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Sándor Gellér (born July 12, 1925 in Veseuș , Romania ; died March 13, 1996 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian football player . With the national team of his home country he won the gold medal as a goalkeeper at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 and then took part in the 1954 World Cup.

Career

Sándor Gellér, who comes from a Jewish family, began his football career with the provincial club Püspökladányi SC. After playing for the club from 1945 to 1947, he moved to Budapest last year to join MTK Húngaria, now known as MTK Budapest FC . In a team with Nándor Hidegkuti , Mihály Lantos and Péter Palotás , among others , Sándor Gellér won during his time at MTK Húngaria, he played for the club from 1947 to 1962, three times the Hungarian championship and once each the Magyar Kupa and the Mitropapokal . In 1951 they were first with four points ahead of Honvéd Budapest , two years later with three points again in front of the club, where the most famous Hungarian footballers, such as Puskás or Bozsik , played at the time. At the third championship in 1958, Honvéd was relegated to second place by one point. In the 1955/56 season MTK Budapest was also the first Hungarian club to play in the European Cup . Gellér was also in the starting line-up of his club when he beat Belgian RSC Anderlecht 6: 3 at the Népstadion in Budapest . In the game, Péter Palotás managed a hat trick , which was also the first ever in the European Cup. For MTK Budapest, however, the end came in the second round, when Stade Reims from France proved to be too strong. Reims only failed in the final against Real Madrid .

Sándor Gellér also played eight times for the Hungarian national soccer team and was part of the Hungarian national team, which was the big favorite at the 1954 Soccer World Cup in Switzerland and lost to the German team in the famous final in Bern's Wankdorf Stadium after Hungary had previously lost for four years had not lost. Gellér was only second goalkeeper behind Gyula Grosics in the finals and was not used. He was also in the squad of the national team of his home country at the Summer Olympics in Helsinki in 1952 , where Hungary won the gold medal, but without Gellér having come to use.

Web links

• Sándor Gellér in the database of FIFA (English)
• Player biography
• Profile of the player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from December 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ Google Books on Sándor Gellér