André Simonyi

André Simonyi ( born March 31, 1914 in Huszt; † July 17, 2002 in Vieux -Moulin, Oise ) was a born András Simonyi in Austria -Hungary, French football player and coach. With 136 hits, he is also today (June 2008) still ranks 28 among the most successful goalscorers of Division 1

Club career

Simonyi was one of nine brothers who all played football, four of them in the highest league; András was therefore referred to in Hungary as Simonyi II. He represented there, the colors of the club Attila FC Miskolc, in which he was already in the first team at 15. Not quite 18 years old, was used as the B -National player; in the spring of 1933, he should also have been in the squad of the Hungarian professional selection against Holland, but where he did not play. In France he was considered " the child barefoot his real cannon perfected on the wall of his home " and already in 1930 also made ​​Western European clubs attention.

For the season 1933/34, the French Erstdivisionär Lille Olympique, where he was noticed at a youth tournament he undertook. In his first season there, scoring center forward in the 26 -point games 19 goals, making him the fourth most successful league scorer; in reach on him 18 goals (Rank 9 of scoring charts ). A championship he won not with the Northern French, but he reached the Elf Cup 1934 semi-final, but in which the FC Sète Lille defeated 1-0. 1935 Simonyi moved to reigning champions FC Sochaux; there remained the attacker only one year, because the team with Roger Courtois and André Abegglen (34 and 16 goals) already had two accurate strikers, even if he succeeded even in but only 15 league inserts eight hits and he again reached the Cup semi-finals. This Simonyi's Eleven was again defeated by eventual winner of the competition ( 0-3 against Racing Paris); To qualify, Sochaux had in the previous round requires three games against the SC Fives.

From 1936 to 1946 André Simonyi played for the capital club Red Star Olympique. For this change Lucien Gamblin responsible; the multiple international, now a journalist with L' Auto, his former club player repeatedly led to, and for 125,000 francs, the Hungarian was almost a "bargain". He remained the Audoniens - this is a common name for the inhabitants of the Parisian suburb of Saint- Ouen and the players of the club based there -. Well as loyal, as this in the season 1938/39, only in the second division competed The descent had Simonyi can 21 point game hits ( sixth- best scorer D1 ) prevent any more than the fact that he is a congenial partner in a " thrilling attack " had with Alfred Aston; with Aston, he spent seven of his ten years as well as Red Star in two subsequent stations in a team.

Outbreak of war and German occupation of France did not prevent in the following years, he came down also to title honors with the Audoniens. One contributing factor was that the team was able to strengthen your workforce designated, including through Vandooren, with the Simonyi had already played together in Lille goalkeeper Darui, Roessler, and the South Americans Herrera, Scopelli and Stábile. Simonyi himself became the undisputed head of the team and also possessed captaincy qualities; Gabriel Hanot praised him in 1942 Miroir des Sports " equipped athletic, snappy, perfect than ever, full of dynamism, iron will and a high understanding of the game " as. In the season 1940/41, was Red Star Masters of the North group of the two-part division 1 and reached the final of the Cup in the occupied zone of France; Zone Cup and Championships from 1939 /40 to 1944/45, however, are still today just as unofficial title. A year later, however, Red Star won the only official competition this war years: after the final of the occupied zone against Stade Reims (1-0, goal by Simonyi ) and then the one against the winner of the "forbidden zone ", the RC Lens (1: had 1 nV and 5:2, in the repetition of a game turn Simonyi hit) won, met Red Star in the national finals of the Cup Winners' Cup of unoccupied France, the FC Sète. Unlike 1934, this time by Simonyi Elf sat against the South of France and took after a 2-0 win the Coupe de France in reception. In this year he was - whose naturalization date is date can not be determined exactly - also to the French national team ( see below). Aside from the season 1943/44, as in France instead of club teams regional selection teams competed - André Simonyi occupied with the Equipe Fédérale Paris Capitale in the league a good third place - provided the striker only twice headlines: 1944/45, was he hits with 29 third-best scorer of the northern group, and in 1946 he reached with Red Star again the Cup final, Lille Olympique SC defeated it but with 2:4 and remained as early as 1942, without their own scoring.

His obligations by Stade Rennes (1946, for a million francs transfer fee ) and the SCO Angers ( early 1947, even 1.7 million FF) brought the "veterans" Although once an income, but no more athletic improvement. There was a whole series of other, short-term changes, first to Stade Français Paris and in the same season for the second division FC Rouen 1948/49, Simonyi returned again back to briefly with Stade Français merged Red Star, but denied it only a first division. Then he went to the SC Covilhã Portugal, returned in 1952 for the last time in the Première Division back - in eleven missions and five goals for CO Roubaix - Tourcoing - and then played two games for the Audoniens and was finally back in Covilha active.

By 1960, his name appeared for the last time on the sports pages on: he coached briefly "his" Red Star, a club from Fontainebleau and then the AS Cherbourg, for which he is to 1962 in 13 second division games also aufstellte still ourselves, even four hits achieved. At this time stood André Simonyi in the second half of his fifth decade of life.

Stations

• Attila FC Miskolc (until 1933 )
• Olympique Lillois (1933-1935)
• Football Club Sochaux- Montbeliard (1935 /36)
• Red Star Olympique (1936-1943)
• Equipe Fédérale Paris Capitale (1943 /44)
• Red Star Olympique (1944-1946)
• Stade Rennais Université Club (1946, first round )
• Angers Sporting Club de l' Ouest (1947, second round 1946/47, and part of the first round 1947/48, in D2)
• Stade Français (1947 /48)
• Football Club de Rouen (1948, in D2)
• Stade Red Star (1948 /49)
• Sporting Clube da Covilhã (Portugal, 1949 -? )
• Club Olympique Roubaix - Tourcoing (1952 )
• Red Star Olympique Audonien (1953, in D2)
• Sporting Clube da Covilhã ( 1953 -? )
• Club Sportif de Fontainebleau ( as coach )
• Red Star Olympique Audonien ( 1959/60, as a coach in D2)
• Association Sportive de Cherbourg (1960-1962, as player-coach in D2)

In the National Team

Between March 1942 and April 1945, André Simonyi in four matches in the French A- national team; while he also managed a hit. His first two assignments ( 1942 0:2 against Switzerland and a 0-4 against Spain ) were carried out on the occasion of the only two matches that France played after January 1940 and before the liberation in 1944. Simonyi Internationals number three ( in December 1944, a 3-1 win over Belgium ) and four (0-1 against Switzerland ) were the first Games of the Bleus in the postwar period. Subsequently, preferred the French selection committee as a center forward Bihel or Bongiorni, on the inside forward positions Ben Barek, Heisserer and the like Simonyi Attila FC Miskolc had grown up Siklo.

Palmarčs

• French Champion: 1941 ( unofficial title )
• French Cup Winners: 1942 ( and finalist 1946)
• 4 'A' matches ( 1 results) for France
• B -National player for Hungary
• Not exactly ascertainable number of games and 136 goals in Division 1, of which at least 63 matches for Red Star, 37 Lille, Roubaix - Tourcoing for 5

Life after the time in football

After his 30 -year career as a footballer, " he threw himself on the gambling ": he worked at the casino in the Avia Club de France in Divonne -les- Bains, then at the Casino of Evian and put in an establishment on the Champs- Élysées, " before he was looking round on the racecourse from Joinville- le -Pont ." With Red Star he still not forgotten: 1993 he was allowed to kick off the occasion of the thousandth point game of Audoniens. Later Simonyi settled in Picardy, where he, 88 years old, died.