Joseph Kaucsar
Joseph Kaucsar, also Iosif Kaucsar ( born September 20, 1904 in Abeuth, then Austria - Hungary as Gyula Kaucsar, † 1986 in France ) was a French football player.
Club career
Kaucsar was born in what is now the border area between Hungary and Romania; it is unclear how from his Hungarian name Gyula ( Julius ), the Romanian Iosif ( Joseph) was. He came after the First World War to the South of France Saint- Raphaël, where he worked in a garage and in 1923 played for the local football club Stade Raphaëlois. The center-half is described as a defender " of iron will, very athletic, as a man-marker as relentlessly as it is effective, impetuous, but determined ".
A national title he won not with this club; However, he stood in 1927 and 1929 with Stade respectively in the semifinals of the French National Cup Competition - 1929 against the club, which the recently -turned- national player Kaucsar two years later joined, namely Sports Olympiques Montpelliérains. With Montpellier, which renamed itself in 1937 in the Stade Olympique Montpelliérain, he played from the introduction of professionalism ( season 1932/33 ) as a professional footballer, and 1935 in Division 1, and after descending several more years in the second division. From 1934 to 1938 he was standing there with his nine- years-younger brother Alfred in a team; he played from 1939 or 1940 until well into his fifth decade of life into the Montpellier Athletic Club.
In the National Team
Joseph Kaucsar should have already played internationally for Romania before he - was appointed in March 1931 for the first time in the French national team - a few weeks earlier after the adoption of French citizenship. He debuted the first official international match against Germany and was due to his defensive performance, especially against the top scorer Richard Hofmann large share of the 1-0 victory of the Bleus. Therefore, he also denied the next 13 French encounters in a row. In the 1-0 win over Spain in April 1933 he was injured seriously, was replaced by Georges Verriest and came afterwards only once eleven months later, an international application. This he also missed the World Cup finals 1934., He scored a hit not in his 15 international appearances, but once ran on as team captain.
Among the highlights was his involvement in a 5-2 win over "teacher " England in May 1931 Kaucsar had sustained in a duel a head laceration and played the rest of the game " with a bloodied face." For him, a friendly against Romania (June 1932) available to book. Against Germany he was still one more time here ( 3-3 March 1933); also against Switzerland ( in the 3-3 in 1932 and 0-1 in the two years later ) and against Austria ( February 1933, 0:4 ), he has worn the national jersey.