Andy Mate

Andrew "Andy" Mate, in Germany as Andreas Máté known ( born March 19, 1940 in Budapest, Hungary András Máte; † 13, 2012 in Hungary), was a former American football player of Hungarian origin.

In the wake of the Hungarian uprising of 1956 Mate, players fled in Újpest Budapest, from his native land to the United States, where he joined New York Hungaria. 1962 won Mate with the Hungarians, the German American Soccer League and the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, in its final he scored two of the three goals; in September 1962 belonged to the midfielder an All-Star team that played eighteen games against clubs and national teams in the Middle East. In the first round of the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup 1963 Mate scored against Mexican club Oro de Jalisco in two games all five goals for New York Hungaria. In 1963 he moved to the Colombian club Deportivo Cali, but returned after a short time to New York.

On May 27, 1964 Mate played his only match for the national team of the United States: The game against England lost the team with 00:10.

Since the summer of 1964 Mate was active at Hamburger SV in the Bundesliga and the first Hungarian first foreign player of the Hanseatic League; September 12, 1964, he came to Borussia Neunkirchen his first appearance in the German top flight, a week later he scored against Meidericher SV his first goal. Nearly seven months later, on 10 April 1965, and he came in the away game at Borussia Dortmund for his sixth and last mission in the Bundesliga ( a total of two results); in September 1965 Mates contract was terminated.

After his return to the United States, Mate joined again to the Hungarians, before he moved to the New York Generals in 1967 in the National Professional Soccer League where he played two games; In the same year, he signed on to the league rivals Philadelphia Spartans. Between 1968 and 1970, the immigrant has been reached for the fourth time when the Hungarians, used in the German American Soccer League. In 1971 he was hired by the newly formed North American Soccer League club New York Cosmos, where he scored 16 goals in 22 games. In 1975 he is occupied as a simple Goal Scorer New Jersey Americans in the American Soccer League.