Gyula Mándi

Mándi Gyula, Gyula Julius Mandl and Mandel, (born 21 January 1899 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † November 27, 1969 ) was a Hungarian football player and football coach.

Club career

Gyula Mándi made ​​his debut in the first team of MTK Budapest in the season 1919/20. The MTK was at that time belonged to the Hungarian league and had players like Imre Schlosser, Alfréd Schaffer, Vilmos Kertész, György Orth and József Braun a number of internationals in its ranks. The young defender was able to slender despite his body with good positional play soon secure a regular place and took the MTK to 1925 six league titles in a row, the team suffered during this period, only nine defeats. After the introduction of professional football in Hungary, the club was renamed MTK Hungaria Budapest and was further of the leading teams in the country to be able to maintain the original dominance without, however. Up to Mandi's career end of 1937 three more championship titles were added.

National team

His first try in the national team had Mándi in June 1921 against Germany. He quickly became a fixture in choosing where he usually was the defense together with Károly Fogl. 1924 Hungary took part in the Summer Olympic Games, where they could make legitimate hopes for a successful performance. However, after a clear victory in the first round of Poland it came to a sensational 0-3 against Egypt and thus on the early departure from the tournament, which was Mándi in both games on the court.

At regular inserts in the national team he came due to a knee injury again only in the period from 1929 to 1932, where he was also five times used in the context of the European Cup of the national soccer teams. After he had received no more than two years convocations, he ran for the last time in April 1934 on the qualifying match for the FIFA World Cup 1934 against Bulgaria for Hungary. Overall, he played 31 games for his country.

Coaching career

After his playing career Mándi worked at the Hungarian Football Federation. During the time of the Golden Team in the 1950s Mándi actually was nominal coach of the national team, but Gusztáv Sebes subordinate, who held the post of Deputy Minister of Sports and was perceived in the visibility as a team coach, while Mándi and Márton Bukovi acted as his assistant, which the former was responsible in particular for carrying out the training.

1957 Mándi left Hungary and took over in mid-August the post as coach of FC America in Rio de Janeiro where he remained until the end of April 1958. With America he reached a middle seat in the state championship in 1957, which was also considered unsatisfactory as the last place, together with two other teams, the Rio - São Paulo Tournament in 1958. From 1959 to 1963, and a second time in 1964, he oversaw the Israeli national soccer team. In 1960 he finished with it in the Asian Continental Championship, which was held in South Korea, the second behind the hosts.

Achievements

• 9 x Hungarian Champion: 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1936, 1937
• 3 x Hungarian Cup Winner: 1923, 1925, 1932
• Olympic champion: 1952 ( as a supervisor )
• Vice world champion: 1954 ( as a supervisor )
• 31 games for the Hungarian national football team

• National football team (Hungary )
• Hungarian
• Football coach (Hungary )
• Born in 1899
• Died in 1969
• Man