Gyula Lázár

Gyula Lázár (born 24 January 1911 in FÜZESGYARMAT, Békés County, Austria - Hungary, † February 27, 1983 in Budapest, Hungary) was a Hungarian football player and football coach, with Ferencvaros won five league titles and the Mitropacup in the 1930s and 40s and with the Hungarian national team in 1938 Vice World Champion.

Club career

The external rotor Lázár give his debut in the highest Hungarian League in 1930 for FC Ferencvárosi. There he rapidly conquered a permanent place alongside György Sárosi (who had not yet played in the storm ) and Antal Lyka in the rotor row of the Green-Whites. 1932 was the team of coach Zoltán Blum win the championship without even to make a point. In the following season, although you had to be content with third place, next to the Cup victory by a 11:1 against the Újpesti FC is Lázár but could hold harmless by the choice for player of the year.

The slim and light-footed external rotor developed into one of the best cover player of Hungary, who knew equally convincing through his game intelligence and elegance as by his workload and the spectators nicknamed tanár úr ( Teacher ) earned. In 1934 followed the next championship, in Mitropacup failed Franzensburg townspeople but in the semifinals at the AGC Bologna. The next year Lázár reached with Ferencvaros in the same contest the final, where the Sparta Prague proved to be too strong.

The major international success came only in 1937 when the team, at the Lázár now with Gyula Polgár and Béla Magda made ​​the cover, with wins over Slavia Prague, the First Vienna FC and FK Austria Wien reached the Mitropacupfinale and there the SS Lazio beat with a total score of 9:6. Also in the championship it ran again for the team from the IX. District of Budapest and get three titles in the next four years.

In 1943 he finished his career with Ferencvaros and was still for the Szentlőrinci AC and the AC worked Herminamezei.

National

Lazar's skills were also those responsible for the national selection is not a secret for long, and so he made his debut as early as April 1931 in a 6-2 victory over Switzerland in the framework of the Nation. Then he counted in the coming years on the left rotor position for permanent staff of the national team and was among other things the same team, which in 1934 defeated the English in Budapest 2-1.

Also at the World Cup 1934 Lázár was set and played both games of the Hungarians, who failed to Austria in the quarterfinals. In October 1936 in a 2-1 win against Romania he succeeded his only hit.

At the World Championships in 1938, he stood in the opening match against the Dutch East Indies in the unfamiliar position of right- runner, but switched from the quarter- finals again on the left side. He also played the final against Italy, which was lost with 2:4.

Even after the World Cup he played on the national team, now often on the side of Béla Sárosi before it with a 0:7 against Germany completed his 49th and final game in April 1941.

Coaching career

Lázár was part of the coaching staff of the Egyptian national team that won the victory at the African Cup in 1959 under the direction of his compatriot Pál Titkos. In the 1960s he worked in Greece.

Achievements

• Vice World Champion 1938
• 1x Afrikacupsieger: 1959 ( Trainer)
• 1x Mitropacupsieger: 1937
• 1x Mitropacupfinalist: 1935
• 5x Hungarian Champion: 1932, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1941
• 4x Hungarian Cup Winner: 1933, 1935, 1942, 1943
• 49 games and 1 goal for the Hungarian national football team: 1931-1941

• National football team (Hungary )
• Hungarian
• Football coach (Hungary )
• Born in 1911
• Died in 1983
• Man