Gyula Feldmann

Gyula Feldmann ( born November 16, 1890 in Szeged, Austria-Hungary, † October 31, 1955 ) was a Hungarian football player and coach.

Career

Gyula Feldmann began his career at the Budapest Nemzeti club SC and in 1910 was first called up to the national team, where he made his debut against Austria. On the occasion of the Summer Olympics 1912, he was indeed reported in the Hungarian 33 -man squad, but finally not taken to Stockholm. The mid- 1910s changed the defender to Ferencvárosi Torna Club, where he remained until 1917, before the rivals MTK Budapest joined. The blue-white -dominated at that time the League and Feldmann was awarded the MTK three times in a row ( 1918-1920 ) Hungarian champion. In May 1920, he appeared for the last time in the national team - again against Austria, against which he completed nine of his ten internationals.

In the summer of 1920 presented a German businessman together a Hungarian professional team to play against a German professional team player and go on a one-year tour of Europe and Germany. Feldmann joined this company, together with several other internationals such as Ferenc Plattkó, Mihály Pataki, József Ching, Sándor József Nemes and viola. The tour had to be canceled due to lack of success after a few weeks, the players complained their outstanding salaries and returned to Hungary and Austria, where they had to answer to the respective associations. Feldmann was only in May 1921, again a game played again and approval of the MTK.

In 1922 he joined the Jewish club Maccabi Brno in Czechoslovakia. The Maccabee recruited his team mainly from Hungarian players and was therefore as " mercenaries " highly controversial. Feldmann also took over the training of the team and led them to a series of victories against top European clubs. In the spring of 1924, the Maccabee came under considerable pressure since he signed non-Jewish players, which should eventually lead to exclusion from the Jewish Federation. The team went to this time on tour in North Germany, and Feldmann used this obviously to socialize, because a little later he took over briefly as coach at Union 03 Altona before he formed the Bremer SV to a game strong and successful team that twice the district championship won.

In 1927 he finally returned to Hungary and started training at the Hungaria FC Budapest, the cleaved professional football department of the MTK. In the Mitropa Cup in 1927, he reached the semi-finals Hungaria, where the Hungarians were disqualified because of the unauthorized use of Kálmán Konrád.

After he was briefly employed as an instructor at Juventus Bucharest in Romania, he accepted an offer from Italy, together with his compatriot Károly Csapkay to look after Fiorentina. With the Florentines the Betreuerduo occupied in the first year to last place in their group and thus missed the qualification significantly for 1929/30, was first conducted single Series A. The immediate promotion back to the following season did not succeed, but 1931 could return to the top flight again Fiorentina. The now solely responsible Feldmann, however, was replaced by Hermann Felsner. Feldmann took over the U.S. sub Palermo, where he in turn replaced an Austrian coach with Anton Cargnelli, and led the club straight into the series A. In the following two seasons came with the Sicilians in each of the league.

In 1934, Feldmann, succeeding his compatriot Arpad Weisz on the coach chair of Inter Milan (then AS Ambrosiana ) and runner-up, two points behind Juventus. In his second season, he was replaced in the spring. His last stop in Italy was the AC Turin, where he again Anton Cargnelli replaced and the team for two seasons in charge, as the best result was a third place achieved. In the season 1938/39, he was in charge nor the SK Jugoslavija Belgrade, before he returned to Hungaria, which he coached until its forced dissolution in 1940.