Adolf Vécsey (also known as Adolf Weber; 13 June 1916 – 1979) was a Hungarian football player who played as a

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Career

Adolf Vécsey contracted to

Nagyváradi AC Club Atletic Oradea (Nagyváradi Atlétikai Club) (), commonly known as CA Oradea (Nagyváradi AC), or simply as CAO (NAC), is a Romanian football club based in Oradea, Bihor County, which competes in the Liga IV. The team was founded as ''Nagy ...

at the beginning of the 1940s after a career started at

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and continued at

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. At NAC he was the number one goalkeeper of the 1943-44 season, when the green and whites won the Hungarian Championship. After

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, he returned to Oradea. At the end of the 1948-49 season he won again the championship, now in Romania. In 1952, in

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, they played a championship match against

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. The opponent's coach,

Iuliu Baratky Gyula Barátky ( ro, Iuliu Baratky; 14 May 1910 – 14 April 1962) was an ethnic Hungarians in Romania, Hungarian Association football, football player who represented both Hungary national football team, Hungary and Romania national football te ...

, former football player born in Oradea and also NAC former player, sent the midfielders on the pitch with the tactical advice to annoy Vécsey until he was defeated. The goalkeeper tolerated for a while, the five insults, but at one point he succumbed, the striker immediately dashed out and Vécsey was eliminated by the referee. The 1-1 match was lost 3-1 because of the big free spaces appeared by the goalkeeper's absence. Vécsey was forbidden by the football association forever and his active career ended at the age of 37. After returning to

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he wanted to start his career as a coach, but he quickly realized that this would not work for him. After that, for years he lived in

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, than he moved in the

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and lived in

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until the age of 64 when he died of gastric cancer.

References

* Dr. Demjén László: A Nagyváradi AC a magyar nemzeti bajnokságban 1941-44 (1989), 166–170. o. * Dénes Tamás, Peterdi Pál, Rochy Zoltán, Selmeci József: Kalandozó magyar labdarúgók

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at magyafutball.hu 1915 births 1979 deaths Footballers from Budapest Hungarian men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Salgótarjáni BTC footballers Budapest Honvéd FC players Club Atletic Oradea players Pécsi Vasutas SK footballers Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Liga I players Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Hungarian emigrants to Germany {{Hungary-footy-goalkeeper-stub