Zoltán Opata

, Also called Zoltán Opata Zoltan Ormos, (* September 24, 1900 in Budapest, Austria - Hungary, † May 19, 1982 in Budapest, Hungary) was a football player and football coach, the six Championship title in the 1920s with the MTK and in the Hungarian national team played.

Club career

Opatas first stop was the small club MÁVAG Budapest, where he worked until 1920, before he received an offer of MTK, who had lost in the previous two years, some of his strikers to foreign clubs. The two-legged, technically studded attacker added rapidly into the star ensemble of the blue-white one, where he played in a forward line with György Orth, József Brown and Imre Schlosser. In his first five years with the MTK Opata could celebrate every time the championship title, addition there were two cup victories. In 1924 he was for a short time at Maccabi Brno, but soon returned to MTK. However, from the middle of the decade, the team lost its supremacy in the Hungarian football and could only reach 1929 another success.

Then Opata left the club and initially played a season at Erstligaaufsteiger Attila FC Miskolc, where the league was missed. In the following two seasons he worked at the Nemzeti SC and the SC Bocskai Debrecen. In the season 1932/33, an activity is specified at Olympique Lillois in several sources, but a bet could not be detected in French sources, so that a coach activity seems likely. After that he was in any case again briefly for the MTK active before he signed as player-manager of Attila the beginning of 1934. In the same role he was later in the year at AC Neutra in Slovakia.

National

His first try at the national team had Opata in April 1922, when he ran aground as a right winger in a 1-1 draw against Austria. His first goal he scored against Italy in 1924. In the same year the Hungarians participated in the Summer Olympic Games, where they counted the favorites. In the first round Poland was defeated 5-0, with Opata contributed two goals. But was followed by a sensational 0-3 against Egypt and thus the early exit from the tournament.

By 1927, Opata was part of the squad for the national team and came at this time to almost any position in the forward line used. In May 1930, he was called up again and made his last game as part of the Nations Cup, as the Hungarians awarded the victory by a 0:5 against Italy in the final game. In a total of 17 international matches Opata was able to achieve six goals.

Coaching career

After Opata had already taken over as coach in the 1930s with some of his players stations, he continued this career continued after his retirement. In 1936 he edited the Hungarian Olympic team at the Summer Games in Berlin, which, however, had to leave after a first round defeat against Poland.

Afterwards he worked in Yugoslavia, where he could pick up the 1938 championship with the Hask Zagreb. During the war years, he supervised the first division Kolozsvári AC from Cluj. In 1947 he became Romanian Champion with ITA Arad and then took over for a short time as coach at Ferencvaros. From 1950 he was responsible for one season the Budapest Dosza SE and then Csepel Vasas. During the time of the Golden Team Opata also belonged to the coaching staff of the national team, as the Hungarians won the title as the Olympic Summer Games 1952. In 1957, he led the Polish club Gornik Zabrze to the first league title in the club's history.

Achievements

  • 6x Hungarian Champion: 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929
  • 2x Hungarian Cup Winner: 1923, 1925
  • 1x Yugoslav champion: 1938 ( Trainer)
  • 1x Romanian champion: 1947 ( Trainer)
  • 1x Polish Champion: 1957 ( Trainer)
  • 17 games and six goals for the Hungarian national football team: 1922-1930
  • National football team (Hungary )
  • Hungarian
  • Football coach (Hungary )
  • Born 1900
  • Died in 1982
  • Man
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