Zoltán Varga (soccer player)

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Zoltan Varga
Zoltan Varga (1973) .jpg
Personnel
birthday January 1, 1945
place of birth VálHungary
date of death April 9, 2010
Place of death BudapestHungary
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1961-1968 Ferencváros Budapest 135 (53)
1968-1969 Standard Liege 0 0(0)
1969-1972 Hertha BSC 34 0(9)
1972-1973 Aberdeen FC 26 (10)
1973-1974 Ajax Amsterdam 12 0(2)
1974-1976 Borussia Dortmund 62 (10)
1976-1977 FC Augsburg 8 0(1)
1977 KAA Gent
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1964-1968 Hungary 12 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1978-1980 BV Brambauer
1981 Prussia Munster
1983 MTV Ingolstadt
1991-1993 MSV Munich
1996-1997 Ferencvárosi TC
1997 Budapest Honvéd FC
1998-1999 Dunaferr
2000 Diósgyőri VTK
2001 Győri ETO FC
2003 Győri ETO FC
1 Only league games are given.

Zoltán Varga [ ˈzoltaːn ˈvɒrɡɒ ] (born January 1, 1945 in Vál , Fejér County , Hungary , † April 9, 2010 in Budapest ) was a Hungarian football player and coach who played in the position of the striker during his playing days .

Career as a player

Zoltán Varga began his career in 1961 with the Hungarian club Ferencváros Budapest , for which he played until 1968. Between 1964 and 1968 he played a total of 13 international games for his home country and was Olympic champion with the Hungarian team at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . In 1968 Varga set himself apart from the Hungarian team during an international trip to Mexico and was then banned in Hungary for " fleeing the republic " and sentenced to death . First he was with the Belgian club Standard Liège from July 1968 to June 1969 , but could not be used because of the FIFA- wide ban.

He then moved to Hertha BSC , where he was under contract from 1969 to 1972, was allowed to play from 1970 and quickly became a crowd favorite. Towards the end of the 1970/1971 season, Varga was involved in the Bundesliga scandal . In this context, however, the following excerpt from an article in the Berliner Tagesspiegel from March 19, 2006 is quite informative, which shows that Varga was apparently left out, but knew very well what was going on: “In 1971 Hertha BSC was doing better than today. Before the last match day, the team was in third place, with enough space up and down. It was no longer about anything against Bielefeld, and that's how the Berliners played. When it was 0-0 at halftime, the first spectators shouted: Shift, shift! Hertha's Hungarian Zoltán Varga didn't run into the booth, but up into the press room in the upper ring of the Olympic Stadium. " Der Spiegel later reconstructed the phone call that Varga made with his wife:" Is the money there? "-" No. "-" These pigs, they want to collect foreigners without us. But I'll ruin it for them! ”Zoltán Varga hadn't done much in the first half. "He lost almost every duel, played the ball in the opponent's legs, shot him and otherwise just stood around," wrote the Tagesspiegel . After the phone call, Varga played like crazy, hit the crossbar of the Bielefelder Tor once, and it looked as if the Hungarian, who was suddenly so happy to play, would be cut by his colleagues. The football fans later learned that Bielefeld had offered money to ensure that Varga and his colleagues play as poorly as possible.

Zoltán Varga was banned from Germany from January 23, 1972 to June 30, 1974 because of his involvement in the Bundesliga scandal, along with various other Hertha players, and had to pay a fine of DM 15,000. However, the DFB had already given Varga a pre-suspension in 1971, which should not remain without consequences for Hertha: In the DFB Cup second leg FC Schalke 04 against Hertha BSC on December 15, 1971 in Berlin , the last game before the winter break, the Berliners won 3: 0 and would have been one round after the 1: 3 in the first leg. But they made a crucial mistake: Hertha used Varga, whom the sports court and in the appeal proceedings the DFB Federal Court had blocked for alleged manipulation of the Bundesliga game Hertha BSC against Arminia Bielefeld (0: 1) for bribery, but not yet convicted. Hertha BSC achieved with an injunction before a Berlin court that Varga was allowed to appear in the cup. After a discussion on the board of Hertha, which was also attended by coach Helmut Kronsbein , the club decided to use Varga, who had been banned by the DFB. Zoltán Varga thus enabled Schalke to advance to the next round of the cup despite defeat, because in January 1972 the DFB Sports Court canceled the DFB Cup second leg as a result of the Schalke protest because of the involvement of the suspended Zoltán Varga and rated the game 2-0 for Schalke. Schalke 04 were in the second round of the DFB Cup despite their 3-0 defeat and won it at the end of the season.

From July 1, 1972, Zoltán Varga received from the DFB clearance for abroad and was able to continue his career in Scotland at FC Aberdeen (1972/73 season) and in the Netherlands at Ajax Amsterdam (1973/74 season). After the suspension expired in October 1974, the former Hungarian international Varga completed a trial training session with the then second division club Borussia Dortmund . 2000 spectators attended the first training session and coach Knefler said: “If we take him, then only on the basis of the loan.” Less than two weeks later, the loan business was perfect and Varga came from Ajax Amsterdam to Bierstadt. The Hungarian's debut took place on November 2nd at the home game against DJK Gütersloh in front of 42,000 spectators (point game record). In the 2-1 win, Varga could do little, however, as he had entered the game weakened because of the flu. Quote from BVB trainer Otto Knefler about Varga after his second competitive game: "He magically attracts the masses and has already brought back the money he cost three times." On January 26, 1976 there was a break between trainer Knefler and the largest part of the team, which was led by Helmut Nerlinger , Zoltán Varga and Peter Geyer . At BVB, Zoltán Varga made headlines with “Zoltán's pigeon catch” in May 1976, when he caught a pigeon that had got lost on the field with his bare hands. Varga played a key role in Borussia’s promotion to the first Bundesliga in 1976, but although he was part of the starting squad of the 1976/77 season, he was no longer used under the new coach Otto Rehhagel in the 1st Bundesliga, as he was for the previous unrest (dismissal of Knefler) had been partly responsible. Zoltán Varga was supposed to be given up, but he announced that he wanted to fight for his place, which is why he was still listed in the BVB squad in the kicker sports magazine (special issue 1976/77). In this special issue you can read the following about the problem at that time: “The young coach is also interested in something else (note Rehhagel): The days of the jungle war at Borussia must be over. If the players think they can deal with me just as much as they sometimes tried to do with Otto Knefler or Horst Buhtz , then they are wrong. Then I immediately intervene. The players practically had Knefler on their conscience and Zoltan Varga, for example, tried to shoot down his successor Buhtz. "

When it comes to Varga, Rehhagel is pensive anyway. “The days of playmakers like Netzer or Varga are over - in the Bundesliga you need all-round talent who can do everything, who can keep up with any speed. If Varga doesn't do that, he can't play. ”Here is another quote from trainer Otto Rehhagel about Zoltán Varga, who is not initially willing to emigrate:“ Varga should go voluntarily. He can't keep up the pace and can't cover either. ”Zoltán Varga moved to FC Augsburg in July 1976 , where he played a total of eight games in the 2nd Bundesliga South under coach Max Merkel between November 1976 and March 1977 and scored a goal. Varga played a total of 34 games and scored nine goals in the 1st Bundesliga for Hertha BSC and 59 games in the 2nd Bundesliga for Borussia Dortmund and FC Augsburg, in which he scored eleven goals. In the 1977/78 season, Varga played for KAA Gent in Belgium.

Career as a coach

From 1978 to 1980 he worked as a player- coach for the then association league club BV Brambauer . In the 1981/82 season, Zoltán Varga coached the upper division (then 3rd division) Preußen Münster from July to December 1981 , but was replaced there by Horst Blankenburg as interim coach . As can be read on the Hungarian Wikipedia page, Varga trained MTV Ingolstadt in Germany in 1983 and MSV Munich from 1991 to 1993. This was followed by coaching positions at the Hungarian clubs Ferencváros Budapest (1996/1997), Honvéd Budapest (1997), Dunaferr (1998–1999) and in 2000 Diósgyőri VTK . In the 2001/2002 season, Varga was coach and technical director (until 2003) of the Hungarian first division club Győri ETO FC , where he then briefly worked again as a coach in the 2003/04 season.

death

Varga died of heart failure on April 9, 2010 at a senior football match in Budapest at the age of 65. As reported by the Hungarian Internet portal “origo”, the 65-year-old collapsed dead on the sidelines during the half-time break. The emergency doctor who was called could no longer help him.

Individual evidence

  1. Hertha versus Arminia - once a scandal
  2. Wrong biography
  3. Why are they so enemies?
  4. 1974/75 season: Up through hard cuts and fan support
  5. Borussia Chronicle
  6. schwatzgelb.de (PDF; 55 kB)
  7. schwatzgelb.de
  8. bvbrambauer.de

Web links

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