IstvÃ¡n Zsolt

István Zsolt (* June 21, 1921; † 7 May 1991) was a Hungarian football referee.

The Hungarian referee Zsolt was over 15 years as one of the world's top football referee. He participated in three World Cups. With the Football World Cup 1954 in Switzerland, he headed the quarterfinal match between Germany and Yugoslavia.

Become far more famous for German fans is the meeting of the Football World Cup 1958 in Sweden, as Zsolt refereed the semi-final match between Germany and Sweden. In the prior of 1:1, he referred the Düsseldorf Erich Juskowiak because of a revenge fouls off after Kurt Hamrin had missed him a kick. Hamrin but was not sent off. After Fritz Walter was heavily fouled a little later and he was so at the ankle was injured, which in turn had no consequences, the German team played practically only with nine players (at that time were Substitutions are not allowed and Walter could hardly participate in the event ) and lost the game with 1:3. In Germany criticism was already ahead of the game according to that FIFA ansetzte a Hungarian referee on the game - four years before Germany won just against Hungary, the final of the 1954 World Cup After this game, Zsolt spent seven years no more international..

His last World Cup match whistled István Zsolt at the Football World Cup 1966 in England. It was the opening match between hosts England and the two-time world champions Uruguay. The last major appearance of the Hungarian referee had the match for third place in the European Football Championship in 1968 between Britain and the Soviet Union.

1966 Zsolt whistled the final first leg of the UEFA Cup predecessors Cities Fairs Cup between Spanish clubs Real Zaragoza and Barcelona CF. István Zsolt also launched a total of five games at the Olympic Games in 1952, 1960, 1964 and 1968, which is a record.

Football referee (Hungary )
Born 1921
Died in 1991
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