János Gyarmati
János Gyarmati ( born February 8, 1910 in Tápiószele; † August 29, 1974 in Budapest) was a Hungarian football player and coach. He was from 1955 to 1957 coach of the national football team of the GDR.
As a player Gyarmati worked at Ferencvaros Budapest and Szeged at FC in the 1930s and completed three internationals for Hungary. His debut celebrated on 14 November 1937 in Budapest against Switzerland (2-0). In January 1938, followed by two matches in Portugal ( 0:4 ) and in Luxembourg ( 0:6 ).
He trained alongside the GDR 's national VP Dresden, SC DHfK Leipzig, ASK Vorwärts Berlin and SC Dynamo Berlin.
On September 18, 1955, he took over the position of the A - head coach of the GDR. Under his leadership, almost every month, two - to three-day training camp in Bad Blankenburg held. Gyarmati took care of along with John Siegert and Fritz Belger also about the B team and the next generation.
On taking office Gyarmati presented three problems: " There are too many sachunkundige officials who believe it is better to know there is a lack of conditions for cooperation between clubs, players and coaches, and the players have strong conditional defects ".
The Hungarian declared not to be influenced by politics and went in the nomination of the national team now purely on sporting criteria before. From the media Gyarmati frequently was therefore praised. The football weekends for example, wrote about Gyarmatis work: " Fortunately, the work on the development of our selection now seems principled right to go as formerly [ ... ] Now you pull back those proven forces approach, the long time came for our national team in question. " - So the GDR succeeded in the seventh game and the first under Gyarmati the first victory when the team defeated Romania 3-2 away. However, the national team suffered from the international isolation. Since the GDR neither played against the strong teams from the capitalist countries, nor against the then sole superior team from a socialist country, the Hungarians were the sign of a bad development.
It was only on 10 March 1957, the GDR joined for the first time against the national team of a capitalist country, as the team defeated Luxembourg 3-0.
Surprisingly, the GDR reported in the same year for the first time for the World Cup qualifiers. After the euphoria of the Federal Republic of Germany spread to the fans from the GDR after winning the World Cup in 1954, the SED was forced to their attitude towards the football to change and to accept a qualifying participation in the GDR. The national team has been drawn in the qualifying round in a group with Czechoslovakia and Wales. For the opening game against Wales on 19 May 1957 at the Central Stadium in Leipzig, there were about 500,000 requests for tickets. Officially the game with 100,000 viewers took place. In fact, the GDR, however, defeated Wales in the crowded central stadium before 120,000 spectators 2-1. However, the following three qualifying games got the GDR and landed at the end of the third and therefore last place in the group. Gyarmati, the permanent intervention of sports officials no longer wanted to offer, resigned after the failure back to the qualifiers on 27 October 1957.