József Braun

József " Csibi " Brown, Hungarian József Barna, ( born February 26, 1901 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † February 1943 ) was a Hungarian football player and football coach.

Club career

József Braun played in youth when VAC Budapest, was discovered in 1916 by Jimmy Hogan, the new English coach of MTK Budapest and brought to the blue-white. Hogan built a team from arrivierten players like Imre Schlosser and Alfréd Schaffer and talented young players like Brown and György Orth, which should be the foundation for a long-standing dominance of Hungarian football. Brown made ​​his debut in the season 1916/17 and was able to immediately celebrate their first championship. The following season the tall player was able to secure an outpost on the right wing, the position he would have over the next seven years, but was plagued throughout his career again and again by injuries.

Brown is still one of the best right winger in the history of Hungarian football and was known in particular for his inaugural speed, his ball control and accuracy of its cross gifts. With the MTK reach nine league titles in a row from 1917 to 1925, this came also two cup victories. 1919 Brown was elected Hungarian Footballer of the Year.

Due to his injuries, he had his career prematurely, but tried in the late 1920s once again made ​​a comeback when he ran aground in the American Soccer League for the Brooklyn Hakoah and the Brooklyn Wanderers.

National team

His first try in the national team had Brown with 17 years in October 1918 in a 3-0 win over Austria. In his second international game a few months later he scored the decisive goal to make it 2-1 against the same opponents. In the next few years he was a fixture on the right wing of the Hungarians and led his team in 1924 as a captain to the Summer Olympic Games, where you could make legitimate hopes for a successful performance. However, after a clear victory in the first round of Poland, there was a sensational 0-3 against Egypt and thus on the early departure from the tournament, said Brown missed a penalty which would have meant the time between compensation. After an injury in 1926, he managed once again jump into the national team, but finished his career in December this year with a 3-3 draw against Portugal. In 28 games he scored eleven goals for Hungary.

Coaching career

After his playing career, Brown worked as a trainer in Slovakia, where he remained until 1938, the first ČsŠK Bratislava coached by 1935. He also directed the LAFC Lučenec and the FTC Filakovo.

After the end of his football career, he worked as a bank official. As a Jew by birth, he was called up for labor service in 1942, where he died in 1943. According to another source it should be like as a soldier in the Hungarian army.

Achievements

• 9x Hungarian Champion: 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925
• 2x Hungarian Cup Winner: 1923, 1925
• 28 games and eleven goals for the Hungarian national football team

• National football team (Hungary )
• Hungarian
• Football coach (Hungary )
• Man
• Born 1901
• Died in 1943