Ferenc Machos

Ferenc Machos (* June 30, 1932 in Tatabánya, † December 3, 2006 in Budapest) was a Hungarian football player. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup in 1954 and won two years before the gold medal at the Summer Olympics in 1952.

Career

Ferenc Machos began his footballing career in 1950 at FC Tatabánya in his hometown. When the then prime macho club remained until the year 1952, before he Honvéd Szeged joined for one year. In 1954 he moved to the capital of Hungary to Budapest Honvéd. In the club where he played among others with many of the players of the famous Hungarian Golden Team of the fifties like Ferenc Puskás, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik, he won his first national title in 1954, when Honvéd in Nemzeti National Championship in first place with five points ahead of MTK Budapest finished. The following year, you could repeat the title, this time, the first place MTK Budapest was four points ahead again occupied. Another league title with Honvéd was denied Machos, as in the course of the suppression of the Hungarian uprising by the end of 1956, many of the stars of Hungary fled to the West, including Puskás, Zoltán Kocsis and Czibor. Only goalkeeper Gyula Grosics, László Budai and Bozsik remained of the world stars in Hungary. It took until 1980 before Honvéd could win a national championship again. The only success in addition to the Cup victory in 1964 in the years after the popular uprising was a victory in the Mitropa Cup 1959 Honvéd. In the same year Ferenc left machos the club and joined Vasas SC, also from Budapest to. There he won until his retirement in late 1969 four championships and three times the Mitropa Cup. After 105 games for Vasas Budapest Ferenc Machos ended his active career in 1969 and was a football coach.

In the Hungarian national football team Ferenc Machos 1955-1963 29 times came into use. With the national team of his native country, he took without having completing an International Match, part of the Football World Cup 1954 in Switzerland. In the tournament, he was not used, while his team was considered the best national team in the world, vordrung to the finals and there surprisingly was defeated by Germany. Machos played his first international match in 1955 and played until 1963 28 more times for Hungary, took, however, in no other World Cup more part.

After he had been trained from 1965 to 1968 Vasas as player-coach, 1969, he was obliged by the Hungarian national football team as an assistant coach. His tenure as an assistant coach under Károly Soos, however, was less successful and ended with the missed qualifying for the World Cup in Mexico in 1970, after which he and his boss were laid off. Then he coached from 1970 to 1972 again the team of Vasas Budapest before he retired in 1972.