Ferenc Weisz (23 February 1885 – 8 July 1944) was a
Hungarian football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
player and manager. Weisz, who was Jewish, played club football as a
striker for
Ferencváros
Ferencváros () is the 9th district of Budapest ( hu, Budapest IX. kerülete), Hungary.
Name
The southern suburb of Pest was named after King Francis I on 4 December 1792 when he was crowned king of Hungary.
History
The development of Fe ...
and
MTK, winning the Hungarian league nine times.
He also represented his country at
international level, earning 17 caps between 1903 and 1917.
After retiring as a player in 1920, Weisz became manager of
Újpest
Újpest (; german: Neu-Pest, en, New Pest) is the 4th District in Budapest, Hungary. It is located on the left bank of the Danube River. The name Újpest means "New Pest" because the city was formed on the border of the city of Pest, Hungary i ...
between 1920 and 1922.
Weisz was deported with his wife from the
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 ...
outskirts to
Auschwitz concentration camp
Auschwitz concentration camp ( (); also or ) was a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps operated by Nazi Germany in occupied Poland (in a portion annexed into Germany in 1939) during World War II and the Holocaust. It con ...
in 1944, where he was murdered.
References
External links
Jews In Sports
1885 births
1944 deaths
Hungarian Jews
Hungarian footballers
Hungarian football managers
Hungary international footballers
Újpest FC managers
Jewish footballers
Hungarian Jews who died in the Holocaust
Hungarian people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp
Jewish Hungarian sportspeople
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