Elemér Berkessy
Elemér Berkessy, also known under the name Emilio Berkessy ( born June 20, 1905 in Nagyvarad, Austria - Hungary, † July 7, 1993 in Barcelona, Spain), was a Hungarian football player and football coach.
Club career
After the end of World War Berkessys hometown fell to Romania and so he began his career in the Romanian football operation, where he was active in the CAO Oradea in 1921. In the 1924/25 season he played with UCAS Petrosani, where he reached the final of the Romanian Cup, which was lost against Chinezul Timişoara with 1:5. Further stations were Bihorul Oradea, FULGERUL CFR Chisinau and Jiul Lupeni, where he again reached the final with the latter team, but also with a 2:3 against Coltea Braşov as losers went off.
1928 was the tall external rotor an offer of Ferencvárosi FC and moved to supervised by István Tóth - Potya club from the Hungarian capital, which the last three league titles had brought. Right at the beginning of its activities in Budapest Berkessy took part in the Mitropacup. With victories over the Beogradski SK and SK Admira Vienna to reach the finals, where the SK Rapid Vienna was beaten 7-1 in the first leg, a projection which was sufficient despite a 3:5 in the second leg. In the championship, it was enough in the following years for second and third places, until 1931/32, a title could be brought back, even to the Green-Whites remained the whole season unbeaten. Berkessy came, however - also due to injury - only sporadically used.
He then moved to the newly founded French professional league, where he wrote for the managed by Jimmy Hogan Racing Club de Paris. Two seasons he stayed with the club and played it in a team with Rudolf Hiden and Auguste Jordan. In 1934 he accepted an offer from FC Barcelona and played two years for the blue - red, where, however, only enough for midfield places in the Spanish championship, but twice the Catalan championship could be fetched. In 1936 he returned to France and worked for the second division club Le Havre AC under the player-coach Pepi Schneider.
National
After his move to Hungary Berkessy was also used in the national team, where he was part of the Nations Cup with a 3-1 against Switzerland his debut in November 1928 in a team whose runner series with Károly Furmann, Márton Bukovi and Berkessy entirely Ferencvaros players was formed. By October 1930, he came to a total of seven missions at left- runner, his last game was a 1-1 draw against Czechoslovakia.
Coaching career
On his return to Hungary in the late 1930s continued Berkessy his career as a coach and oversaw continued in the following years the Szentlőrinci AC, where he discovered the young Ferenc Deák, the Tatabányai SC, Salgótarjáni BTC, Szegedi VSE, Szeged FC, and in 1944 his old club Ferencvaros.
After the Second World War, he left Hungary in 1947 and took over the Italian first division club Vicenza Calcio, however, had to stay with the club in the B series. He then oversaw the AS Biellese, Pro Patria Calcio and Calcio Rosignano. In 1951 he went back to Spain and started training at Real Zaragoza, where he managed to avoid relegation, but was replaced during the following season.
1954 Berkessy was the first foreign coach in the history of the English professional leagues, when he took over the care of the third division side Grimsby Town. However, this commitment lasted only a few weeks, as the Hungarian got no work permit. The British Ministry of Labour took the view that it could see no advantage to the obligation of a Hungarian coach over that of an English coach would have, which, given the fact that the English in the previous year against one of the Hungary for the first time a home game against a country's choice of outside of the British Isles had lost, looks strange.
From 1955 to 1957 Berkessy oversaw the Belgian club Beerschot VAV and then returned to Spain, where he trained in the season 1957/58 Espanyol Barcelona.
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- National football team (Hungary )
- Hungarian
- Football coach (Hungary )
- Born 1905
- Died in 1993
- Man