Béla Sárosi

Béla Sárosi, originally Béla Stefancsics, ( born May 15, 1919 in Budapest, † 15 June 1993 in Zaragoza ) was a Hungarian football player who belonged to the squad of the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1938. The also known Sárosi III known players was the younger brother of long -time Hungarian national player György Sárosi.

Playing career

Club career

Béla Sárosi, born on 15 May 1919 in Budapest, Hungary, first played in the AFC Műegyetemi and then began his professional career in the Hungarian capital club Ferencvaros Budapest. Even in his first season, 1937/38, he won with today's record champion of Hungary, the championship of the country, as they finished in first place before Ujpest in the table. In the following season, you had to settle for a second place behind Ujpest. 1940 succeeded Sárosi that was active on the position of a midfielder, his second title with Ferencvaros. This time it was first in the Nemzeti National Championship with one point ahead of MTK Budapest. One last title win with the club succeeded Sárosi a year later, in 1941, with eleven points ahead of Ujpest. From 1942 to 1944 Franz dwellers succeeded three times in a row victory in the Hungarian Cup. In 1946 he left then Ferencvaros Budapest and joined the FC Bologna in Italy. In Bologna he played together with famous Italian players like Amedeo Biavati, world champion in 1938, but it did not succeed in sporting success. After three years at FC Bologna Béla Sárosi moved on to league rivals AS Bari. He remained there only a year and then went on to Columbia to Atlético Junior of Barranquilla. Now followed by several clubs, where Sárosi trailed off his career. With FC Porto and Real Zaragoza he held in two years two clubs before he 1953 FC Lugano in Switzerland joined, with whom he won the National League B in the first year and then played one more year in the top division, before he ended his active career.

National

In the Hungarian national football team Béla Sárosi came between 1939 and 1945 to 25 games in which he scored three goals. Without having attended a single international match, he was called to the squad for the World Cup in France in 1938 by Hungarian Association Captain Károly Dietz. However, he was one of the four players of the squad who remained on call in the home and did not travel to France. The Hungarian team, however, reached at the World Championships after victories over the Dutch East Indies ( now Indonesia ), 6-0, Switzerland 2-0 Sweden 5-1 the final at the Stade de Colombes in Paris, where with 2:4 Italy failed. One of the Hungarian goal scorers in the final was Béla's brother György. A year after the World Cup, he completed his first 25 appearances for Hungary and was in the years from 1939 to 1943 permanent staff of the rotor row of the national team. Also on Hungary's first game after the end of World War II, he participated before in a 7:2 against Romania, he finished his career with the national team in September 1945.

Coaching career

After the end of his career as a football player Béla Sárosi began a coaching career after he had acted as player-coach already at its last player stations. In 1955 he then joined to FC Basel. Without having a title with the giants of Switzerland won, he went in 1957 to Germany. He took over the team of Jahn Regensburg in the Oberliga Süd, then the top flight, his coach predecessor Josef Uridil. With " the Jahn " but Sárosi rose in 1958 as a table next to last in the 2nd League South from. Then he moved again to the club and coached henceforth Alemannia Aachen, also from Germany. The Alemannia was playing in the Oberliga West and had in the Round in 1957/58 with coach Georg Knöpfle ranks third in the West. Sárosi but left Aachen again after only one year, with the elf to Joseph Martinelli it had reached only the 10th place. Well, he moved to Belgium to Germinal Beerschot Antwerp. At the time unterklassigen club Sárosi stayed for a year and ended after that one year his coaching career in 1961. Thereafter he lived in Zaragoza, Spain, where he died on 15 June 1993 at the age of 74 years.