Vilmos Kertész

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Vilmos Kertész
Personnel
birthday March 21, 1890
place of birth Budapest ,  Austria-Hungary
date of death 1962
Place of death Sydney ,  Australia
position Outrunner
Juniors
Years station
0000-1909 MTK Budapest
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1909-1920 MTK Budapest
1920 FK Austria Vienna
1920-1924 MTK Budapest
1924– Nemzeti SC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1909-1924 Hungary 47 0(11)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
VAC Budapest
Ékszerész SC
1931-1932 Ripensia Timișoara
1932– Hellenic Alexandria
1 Only league games are given.

Vilmos "Willy" Kertész , also known as Kertész II , (born March 21, 1890 in Budapest , † 1962 in Sydney ) was a Hungarian football player and coach who won nine championship titles with the MTK and was captain of the national team for many years .

Club career

Like his brothers Gyula and Adolf , Vilmos Kertész began his career at MTK, where he joined the first team in 1909 and was able to convince straight away. At the beginning of his career he played in the storm row, where he was used on the right inside position. As early as 1910 he was able to celebrate his first title by winning the cup , which was followed by two more before a first championship title was won in 1914.

Kertész was a technically and tactically outstanding player and when Jimmy Hogan took over the blue-whites in 1916 as coach, he pulled the player back into the runner row, where he was henceforth used as the right half. Due to his wealth of tricks, Kertész became one of the most popular players of his time in Hungary. The team put together by Hogan, which included established players such as Imre Schlosser and Alfréd Schaffer as well as the up-and-coming young players György Orth and József Braun , was the cornerstone of the longstanding dominance of MTK in Hungarian football. Between 1917 and 1924 Kertész was able to win eight championship titles in a row.

In between, he briefly moved to Wiener Amateur SV in 1920 , but was not allowed to play in the championship because the cartel agreement between the two associations stipulated that only one club could be played in the two countries during one season. The player returned to Budapest after a few weeks and continued his career at MTK until 1924, before he played for Nemzeti SC .

National team

Just two months after he made his debut in the MTK combat team, he made his first appearance in the national team when he stormed next to Schlosser and Gáspár Borbás in a 4: 3 against Austria in May 1909 . In 1912 he was part of the Hungarian squad at the Summer Olympics , but was not used. He scored his first goals in the national dress shortly afterwards when the Hungarians landed two victories against the Russian national team with 9-0 and 12-0 in Moscow and he contributed three goals each.

In the national team, too, he switched to the runner's position in 1916 and was a long-term support there, who was also entrusted with the title of captain. He played one of his most outstanding international matches in September 1923 in a 2-0 win against Austria, when he was carried off the pitch on the shoulders of the crowd after the game and the Wiener Sporttagblatt wrote: "The best man in Hungary was once again old Willy Kertesz, whose game reminded of his best days. ”After he was only taken as a substitute at the Olympic Games in 1924 , he ended his international career in June 1924 with a 1-0 victory over France after 47 appearances.

Coaching career

He then opened a sports shop and worked as a coach at VAC Budapest and the second division club Ékszerész SC . From 1931 he was in charge of the Romanian club Ripensia Timișoara before he accepted an offer from Egypt in 1932 and coached Hellenic Alexandria and other Egyptian clubs until 1940. After the Second World War , he initially continued his coaching activity in Alexandria, but then emigrated to Australia in the 1950s.

successes

Remarks

  1. ↑ Sporttagblatt, September 24, 1923, p. 1
personal data
SURNAME Kertész, Vilmos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kertész, Willy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH 1962
Place of death Sydney