József Bozsik

József Bozsik [ jo ː ʒɛf boʒik ] ( born November 28, 1925 in Kispest, † May 31, 1978 in Budapest) was a Hungarian football player and member of the " Golden Team " of Hungary. His nickname was " Cucu ".

Life

Bozsik was one of six children of a modestly -paid factory worker and began his football career - as well as his childhood friend Ferenc Puskás - when Kispesti AC ( KAC ), where he organized the position of the right- runner from the game in midfield. The two-legged, accurate shooter was moving on the court at the sedate trot, but was there an esthete of the football game, never rushed, always intelligent, with enormous ball Overview and security. In 1945, he debuted in the first team of Kispest and soon became the engine of his team.

In 1949 he won the first league title with his club, which had been renamed in the same year by the Communist government in Budapest Honvéd and officially declared the army club. All players were awarded a military rank - Bozsik the rank of major - but without really exerting a military function.

Just two years earlier, in 1947, he was appointed for the first time in the national team. As part of the highly acclaimed Golden Team, he won in a row at the Olympic Summer Games 1952 Gold Medal and 1953 the previous several years European Cup for national teams. In the same year he was scorer in the legendary 6-3 away victory of the Hungarians against the English national team. This game meant at that time the first home defeat of England against a team from the European mainland. With the Football World Cup 1954, Hungary joined as a big favorite and reached the final with 25:7 doors without much effort. In the quarterfinals, fouled the Brazilian Santos Nílton Bozsik and the situation escalated: Both fought a short boxing match and referee Arthur Ellis sent both after 71 minutes from the field. However, the lock was only for the remainder of the game. In the semifinals Bozsik led the Hungarians as a captain on the field ( Puskas was injured) and won the match against Uruguay 4-2. His bitterest hour of wearing the national jersey he experienced in the finale, when Hungary lost against Germany 2:3.

In 1956 the Hungarian national uprising was crushed by the Soviet army, Bozsik was in contrast to teammates as Puskás, Kocsis or Czibor in Hungary. In the following years he was a Member of Parliament ( more of a figurehead than a real politician) and lived with his wife in Budapest a ladies fashion store. After his playing career, he also tried his short time as a coach at Honvéd, but was technical advisor and member of the Club Executive Board. In 1974, he was an international match long Hungarian national coach. He wrote commentaries for the Budapest sports newspaper " Képes Sport" and died at the age of 52 of a heart attack.

Bozsik is still considered alongside Ferenc Puskas as the most famous player of Kispesti / Honvéd. Therefore, the location in the district Kispest venue of Budapest Honvéd now bears the name of József Bozsik Stadium.

His son is the later coach Péter Bozsik.

Club career

• First division matches: 447, all for Kispesti AC or Honvéd Budapest
• Hungarian Champion: 1949, 1950, 1952, 1954 and 1955

National team career

• Olympic champion: 1952
• European champions with the national team: 1953
• Won member of the Hungarian team that the " Game of the Century " England 6-3 first home defeat inflicted in 1953 against a team from the European mainland and in 1954 the return match in Budapest Népstadion 7-1
• Vice world champion with the Hungarian national team in the FIFA World Cup 1954
• Hungary's most-capped player with 101 inserts ( 1947-1962 ): he scored 11 goals in National Dress; in his last international match he also scored one goal.

Coach stations

• Honvéd Budapest ( only the manager, then manager )
• National coach of Hungary ( 1974)