Árpád Fazekas (footballer, Born 1930)
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Árpád Fazekas (23 June 1930 – 10 August 2018) was a Hungarian international
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played as a
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.


Career

Born in
Szombathely Szombathely (; german: Steinamanger, ; see also other alternative names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas county in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by t ...
, Fazekas played for Budapesti Dózsa, Vörös Lobogo,
Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...
,
Hessen Kassel KSV Hessen Kassel is a semi-professional German football club based in Kassel, Hesse. KSV competes in the German Regionalliga Südwest, the fourth tier of German football. Nicknamed "Die Löwen" (the lions), the club was founded as FC Union 9 ...
,
Anderlecht Anderlecht (, ) is one of the 19 municipalities of the Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium. Located in the south-western part of the region, it is bordered by the City of Brussels, Forest, Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, and Saint-Gilles, as well as the ...
and RC Tirlemont. Following the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 (23 October – 10 November 1956; hu, 1956-os forradalom), also known as the Hungarian Uprising, was a countrywide revolution against the government of the Hungarian People's Republic (1949–1989) and the Hunga ...
, he left Hungary and joined
Bayern Munich Fußball-Club Bayern München e. V. (FCB, ), also known as FC Bayern (), Bayern Munich, or simply Bayern, is a German professional sports club based in Munich, Bavaria. It is best known for its professional men's football team, which pla ...
. Verbytsky, I.
Yozhef Sabo: In Moscow I was constantly called fascist
'. UA-Football. 4 March 2015.
In 1960 when Dynamo was visiting Bayern he told
Yozhef Sabo Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo ( uk, Йожеф Йожефович Сабо; hu, Szabó József; born 29 February 1940) is a former Ukrainian football player and football manager. He is of Hungarian background. He is baptized as a Greek-Catholic. ...
to stay in
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. He said that he has his own two stories house and a store in Munich. He earned five international caps for the Hungarian national team.


Later life and death

He died in
Budapest Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population ...
on 10 August 2018, at the age of 88.


References

1930 births 2018 deaths Hungarian footballers Hungary international footballers Újpest FC players MTK Budapest FC players FC Bayern Munich footballers KSV Hessen Kassel players R.S.C. Anderlecht players K.V.K. Tienen-Hageland players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Belgian First Division A players Sportspeople from Szombathely Association football goalkeepers Hungarian expatriate footballers Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate footballers in Germany Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate footballers in Belgium 20th-century Hungarian people {{Hungary-footy-goalkeeper-stub