Jenő Csaknády

Jenő Csaknády ( born September 20, 1924 in Hungary; † 7 January 2001 in Mainaschaff ) was a Hungarian football coach and writer who spent most of his career in Germany and Greece.

Life and career

After the Second World War Csaknády visited the Hungarian University of Physical Education and graduated in 1950 from the state exam. He then worked as a secondary school teacher and youth coach. In 1955 he co-authored with the success coach Márton Bukovi the standard work The Hungarian football school.

After the crushing of the Hungarian uprising he came through Vienna to Germany, where he started a career as a professional trainer. His first stop was the SpVgg Fürth in the Oberliga Süd, which he took over in 1957 and two seasons long supervised. After that, he oversaw the first FC Saarbrücken, it led to the title in the Oberliga West in 1961. In the battle for the German championship, the team retired in the first round, however, as a group last. Csaknády left the club and accepted an offer of the second division side Stuttgarter Kickers, but was replaced with four games left in the season of Albert Sing, which the relegation-threatened club secured the class.

In 1962, Csaknády the coaching job at AEK Athens and led the team straight away to the Greek championship. In November 1963, he broke from Herbert Widmayer as coach of 1.FC Nuremberg, which represented the first coaching change in the history of the newly formed league. After a ninth place in the final table, he left the club, went on a study trip to the French and English clubs and wrote the biography of his compatriot Béla Guttmann. In 1965 he returned to Nuremberg and was able to finish the season in sixth place. The following season the club in the relegation battle and Csaknády got was replaced in November 1966 by the coach of the amateur team Jenő Vincze.

The coach returned to the scene of his greatest success, bringing with AEK in 1968 his second championship title. After that he was still working for PAOK Salonika. After a study tour of Brazil, he took over in February 1971 the relegation-threatened Racing Club de Strasbourg, but his office put, two months later, when the player is not published to a production of his outing together. This was his last stop in professional football, Csaknády returned to Germany and was the next for 20 years until his retirement as a high school teacher at the Model School in Frankfurt / Main.

Achievements

• 2x Greek champion: 1963, 1968
• 1x in the Oberliga West: 1961

• Teaching methodology of football young player (1954 )
• The Hungarian Football School (1955, with Márton Bukovi )
• The Béla Guttmann story. Behind the scenes of world football (1964 )
• Football without brutality. First code of honor of the football competition (1997)

• Football coach (Hungary )
• Man
• Born in 1924
• Died in 2001