István Lukács
István Lukács ( born October 14, 1912 in Szeged, † the late 1960s ), after the adoption of French citizenship also Étienne Lukacs, was a Hungarian footballer who played during the main part of his career in France.
Biography
István Lukács 1933 came either directly from FC Szeged or via the intermediate station Újpest Budapest, where he " had completed his training," in the French Division 1 professional that went into its second season. Together with him had brought to the team from the Languedoc Georges Bayrou, the president of FC Sète, his experienced compatriot Márton Bukovi of Ferencvaros Budapest. Lukács did not require long settling time and benefited from the fact that Sète coach René Dedieu formed a working, attack strong unit to high-class players like the offensive Ivan Bek, Ali Benouna and Jules Monsallier, the external rotor Louis Gabrillargues and goalkeeper René Llense. After the season the Almanac du football described the performance of Sète as "complete in all parts of the team, which provided a precise and often spectacular interplay ". As a center forward Lukàcs fulfilled the expectations placed in him from the first game and shot regularly doors to the Dauphin, as the Green-Whites are called up to the present. At the end of the season he had scored in 26 league matches 28 matches, which earned him the top scorer in the league. At the same time, he helped his team significantly to the profit of the league title, although the very home strong FC Sète had just one point ahead of the SC Fives and Olympique Marseille and was lucky that Marseille his last three games - including a catch-up game, while Lukacs and his players already fought out Friendlies in French North Africa - lost. Lukács was in particular a " masterly header of a ball ," the " the specter at each edge and each corner for each defense " was because " despite skin close guard, he was not to hold and always looked for the decision."
A few weeks before the last matchday of the league were Sète and Marseille also have successively taken in the cup final, and also because István Lukács had demonstrated his class sustained by early the residue his team equalized and a quarter of an hour before the final whistle also the gateway to 2:1 scored for Sète. Already in the previous five main round games the lion's share of Sète total of 18 hits had gone to his account: ten of them wore the " sender's name Lukács ". Thus, the center-forward is written in the annals of FC Sète, because the club was in 1934 the first in France, which reached the Doublé league and cup victory. One of his teammates, Yves Dupont, later wrote of the " halo " who had surrounded the " charming, elegant Étienne Lukacs " in Sète.
Nevertheless, he left Sète after only one year because Olympique Lille made him a financial " insane offer". For the previous Fourth, the staff was also well staffed with Vandooren Jules, Jules Bigot, Jean Snella and the Hungarian André Simonyi, Lukács ran in the 1934/35 season in 18 of 30 league games and scored even ten goals; in the table, the Northern French but only reached the seventh place. A year later, the center forward has even denied only twelve games in Division 1, with him three hits were merely succeeded. Understanding and interaction with Simonyi were particularly " far from the [ anticipated ] perfection " because both acted too selfish. After all, he was in 1936 with Lille still runner-up behind Racing Paris. He then moved to AS Saint- Étienne, an ambitious Zweitdivisionär that the reputation of a " Millionenelf " was because he bought together class players from all over France since the preseason. Among them was Lukács ' teammates at FC Sète, Ivan Bek, who scored 91 goals in the ASSE in three years, while the newcomer was not able to fulfill the expectations placed in him there as well. After Saint- Étienne missed out on third place in the rise, it attracted Lukács 1937 in the Switzerland to Lausanne Sports. How long has he played there and what happened afterwards became of him, is not yet to be determined. In the early 1970s Yves Dupont reported that István Lukács had since died.
Club stations
- To 1933: FC Szeged
- 1933/34: FC Sète
- 1934-1936: Lille Olympique
- 1936/37: AS Saint- Étienne ( in D2)
- 1937 -: Lausanne Sports
Palmarčs
- French Champion 1934 ( and runner-up 1936)
- French Cup Winners: 1934
- Scorer in Division 1: 1933/34,