Ferenc Szojka

Ferenc Szojka ( born April 7, 1931 in Salgótarján, † September 17, 2011 ) was a Hungarian football player. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the World Cup 1954.

Career

Ferenc Szojka began his footballing career in 1950 at his hometown club Salgótarján BTC, where he had already gone through the youth departments. Throughout his career, he was the club that time most of the time in the first Hungarian football league, the Nemzeti National Championship, played faithful. Enter a title, either at national level nor significant successes in the international arena, but he could play with Salgotarjan BTC, now in the third division, not win. He completed his career during 1950-1966 a total of 324 games for his club, where Szojka, who acted in the position of a midfielder go, sixteen gates.

In the Hungarian national football team Ferenc Szojka was used in the period 1954-1960 28 times. In these games, he scored a goal. With the Hungarian national team, he participated in the World Cup in Switzerland in 1954, but where he came only once used. The 9-0 in the preliminary round against South Korea was also at the same time Szojkas first international match. His team, which had gone as a big favorite in the tournament, after they had been four years not lost, failed a surprise in the final against Germany and missed the world title seemed to be sure. With the World Cup began Szojkas time in the national team erst He experienced four years after the final in Berne as one of the few who were in the squad Hungary in 1954, a second World Cup. In Sweden, however, Hungary failed after the first round. Szojka was used in two of the three group matches. He made his last international match in 1960 at 1:2 at Heysel Stadium in Brussels against Belgium.