Lazăr Sfera

Lazar Sfera ( born April 29, 1909 in Lokve, Austria - Hungary (now in Serbia), † 24 August 1992 ) was a Romanian football player. He played 159 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, and adopted as a substitute player takes part in the Football World Cup 1934 and the FIFA World Cup 1938.

Career

Sfera began his career with his hometown club Politehnica Timişoara. Since the regional championship was dominated by Timişoara at that time from local rivals Chinezul, he could not participate in the national finals. In 1929 he left Poli and moved to local rivals Banatul, but moved further in the same year to Cluj România and joined in 1931 Universitatea Cluj on.

At the foundation of the Romanian Professional Football League Divizia A in 1932 was "U Cluj " of the founding members and Sfera completed on September 11, 1932 his first game in the top division of the country. After the runner-up in 1933, U Cluj missed the following year the championship again. Sfera joined in 1934 Venus Bucharest, one of the most successful teams of the 1930s. With Venus he won the Romanian Cup in 1937, 1939 and 1940. As the game operation in 1941 had to be halted due to the outbreak of the Second World War, Sfera ended his career.

National

Sfera played 14 games for the Romanian national football team. His start he gave on August 26, 1931 against Lithuania. He was with the national team three times the Balkan Cup win and was in the squad for the World Cup in Italy in 1934 and for the FIFA World Cup in France in 1938, but was not used in each case.

Achievements

  • World Cup participants: 1934 ( Substitute ), 1938 ( Substitute )
  • Romanian champion: 1937, 1939, 1940
  • Romanian runner-up: 1933, 1938
  • Winner of the Balkan Cup: 1929 /31, 1933, 1936
August 24 Defender (association football) Liga I 1932–33 Divizia A 1936–37 Divizia A 1938–39 Divizia A 1939–40 Divizia A Balkan-Cup 1933 Balkan Cup 1936 Balkan Cup
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