Antal Szabó

Antal Szabó, Antal Steinbach ( born September 4, 1910 in Soroksár (Budapest), † April 21, 1958 ) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper, who in the 1930s, twice with the Hungaria FC Hungarian champion and with the national team in 1938 Vice world champion.

Club career

The goalie for a rather diminutive Szabó played for the Soroksári AC, from where he moved to Hungaria 1931. There he became one of the strongest Hungarian shorts men of his generation to his physical disadvantage by excellent reflexes and equalized with his game style, to organize the defense in front of him, its time it was. At the same time he also underwent occasional major errors that did not meet its performance potential.

His first track he celebrated in 1932, when the blue-white against the Ferencvárosi FC with a 4-3 in the replay brought the Cup victory. In the championship, but it should suffice for a long time only for places between two and four, and so it was not until the season 1935/36, before the Blue - White brought a championship title under the leadership of coach Alfréd Schaffer. With just 21 goals conceded in 26 games the defense of Szabó, Gyula Bíró Sándor Mándi and was the strongest in the league. The next year, followed by another title.

After the Hungaria in 1940 dissolved by the Horthy regime, Szabó first moved to Weisz Manfréd Csepel FC and was then still the Lampart FC and the Szentlőrinci AC worked.

In 1956 he left Hungary and died in Germany two years later.

National

His first game in goal for the national team Szabó graduated in March 1932 in a 3-1 win against Czechoslovakia. Already a few weeks later at his second, he had one of the worst defeats of his career plug it in, as the Hungarians were defeated on the Hohenwarte by the Austrian miracle team with 8:2. Szabó was then replaced for some games of József Háda, of his closest rival for the post of the Hungarian National goalie was during the 1930s.

Szabó could then recapture a regular place and was also in the World Cup 1934 goal. There you reached with a 4-2 quarter-final against Egypt, but where was the off against Austria.

Four years later, standing in the tournament in France initially Háda the first game in goal, but from the quarter- finals, the team leadership familiar again Szabó. With victories over Switzerland and Sweden, the team reached the final. There they defeated the Italians with 2:4, where Szabó did not have his best day. He was later quoted as saying that he would have at least saved the Italian players life, as they had received a telegram from Benito Mussolini before the game, which is called "Victory or Death ".

The goalkeeper played until June 1939 at the National team and finished his career with 42 appearances for his country. It is amazing that he thereby completed just four games without conceding a goal.

Achievements

• Vice World Champion 1938
• 2x Hungarian Champion: 1936, 1937
• 1x Hungarian Cup Winner: 1932
• 42 games for the Hungarian national football team: 1932-1939