György Szűcs

György Szűcs ( born April 23, 1912 in Szombathely, Austria-Hungary, † 10 December 1991 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian football player and coach, with the Újpest FC the Mitropacup and three Championship title in the 1930s and with the national 1938 Vice World Champion.

Club career

The center-half started his footballing career at Szombathelyi AK, before he joined the club Testvériség unterklassigen Budapest. There he fell to the charge of Újpest FC and moved 1932 by István Tóth - Potya supervised top club, where he played in the rotor row next Antal Szalay. The player has developed into an excellent play-maker who was particularly praised for the precision of his passes, but also impressed by his heading ability.

Even in his first season with the Purple the championship was celebrated. The following year, you had to admit defeat, although the Ferencvárosi FC in both the championship and the cup final, but in 1935 was followed by another championship team around Stefan Auer, Jenő Vincze and László Sternberg.

Then, it took four more years before Szűcs again brought a title. At the end of the season 1938/39, the team was from the District IV again at the top of the table and was thus qualified for the Mitropacup. There, the team reached with wins over AS Ambrosiana Inter and the SK Beogradski the final, where they met their city rivals from Ferencvaros. With 4:2 and 2:2 to Szűcs ' team won the day and was able to get this item for the second time in club history.

National

His first convening of the national team was the center half in January 1934, when at a 1:3 defeat against Germany the entire series runner was called out of UJPEST. Despite this unsuccessful mounting depth is Szűcs could quickly establish itself in the selection and a few months later was the playmaker part of that team, the English national team defeated 2-1 in Budapest.

When the World Cup 1934 he stood at two games of Hungary on the court, who withdrew in the quarter- finals after a 1-2 against Austria. In the next few years Szűcs could initially compete in the national team before he grew a competitor by the unlearned to the rotor from the striker József Turay, the increasingly displaced it from the selection.

Although Szűcs contested the qualifying match for the World Cup in France against Greece, in the finals but came in all matches up to the semi-finals Turay to train. For the finale, the team was rebuilt and the Újpestmann received the trust of the supervisor. The final went with 2:4 against the Italians lost and Szűcs denied afterwards only a single game for Hungary and ended his career after 25 missions.

Coaching career

After his retirement Szűcs pursued a career as a coach and supervised in the 1950s and 60s a number of Hungarian first division, including the Salgótarjáni BTC, Dorogi Bányász, Szegedi EAC, Diósgyőri VTK, Tatabányai Bányász and Szegedi EOL.

From 1966 to 1967 he was coach of Iran, with which he moved into the final of the Asian Games, where the team of choice Burma was defeated 0-1.

Achievements

• Vice World Champion 1938
• Asian Games: Silver medal 1966 ( Trainer)
• Mitropacup: 1939
• 3x Hungarian Champion: 1933, 1935, 1939
• 25 games for the Hungarian national football team: 1934-1939

• National football team (Hungary )
• Hungarian
• Football coach (Hungary )
• Born in 1912
• Died in 1991
• Man