Ștefan Dobay
Ştefan Dobay or - Hungarian - István Dobay ( born September 26, 1909 in Újszentes, Hungary ( today Dumbrăviţa, Timiş, Romania), † April 7, 1994 in Târgu Mureş ) was a Romanian football player and coach of Hungarian descent. He played 160 games in the highest Romanian football league, the Divizia A, and participated in the World Cup 1934 and the FIFA World Cup 1938.
Playing career
Ştefan Dobay began his career at Banatul Timişoara, which participated in the Regional Championship of Timişoara, since the professional league Divizia A was not founded until 1932. In 1930 he joined the first team Ripensia Timişoara, which initially did not participate in the Romanian championship because only amateur teams were permitted. But it belonged in 1932 as a founding member of the Divizia A and became the most successful club in the 1930s. Dobay won with Ripensia to 1940, four times the Romanian Championship and the Romanian Cup twice. He was also four times top scorer. Then moved Dobay to Hungary, before he returned after the Second World War to Romania and ended his career in 1948.
National
Dobay denied a total of 41 games for the Romanian national team and scored 20 goals. His first assignment was part of the Balkans Cup 1929-31 against Greece on 25 May 1930. Dobay participated in the World Cup in Italy in 1934 and the Football World Cup 1938 in France, where he enters each of all the games and each game scored a goal.
Coaching career
After the end of his active career Dobay embarked on a career as a coach. Already in the 1947/48 season he was player-coach of his club Gaz Metan Medias. He then took over his hometown club CFR Timişoara in Divizia A, before he moved to league rivals Locomotiva Targu Mures, which he later coached from 1952, first in the season 1950 to 1953. In 1954, Dobay Dinamo Orasul Stalin before he again hired at the beginning of the season 1955 in Târgu Mureş. In the summer of 1955, the Romanian giants CCA Bucharest him committed (today Steaua Bucharest). With CCA, he won a league titles and one time the trophy. After two -year commitment at UTA Arad and Cluj he finished in 1960 for health reasons his coaching career and settled in Târgu Mureş. 1968 managed Minerul Bălan for the first time in its history, the rise in the Divizia C whereupon Dobay was asked by the club's management to take over the training. After some games, the club from Bălan finished last in the eighth series of the league, after which Dobay ended his engagement after a few months.
Achievements
As a player
- World Cup qualifiers: 1934, 1938
- Winner Balkan Cup: 1933
- Romanian champion: 1933, 1935, 1936, 1938
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1934, 1936
- Romanian scorer: 1933, 1934, 1935, 1937
As a coach
- Romanian champions: 1956
- Romanian Cup Winners: 1955