Gábor Obitz also known as Gábor Óbecsei and Gábor Ormai (18 January 1899 – 20 March 1953) was a Hungarian football player and manager.

Playing career

Obitz started his career in

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros ...

. After winning the

Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

title in 1922 he moved to

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and played three seasons for Makkabi Brno. In 1925 he joined German club

Holstein Kiel Kieler Sportvereinigung Holstein von 1900 e.V., simply as KSV Holstein or Kieler SV Holstein, commonly known as Holstein Kiel (), is a German association football and sports club based in the city of Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein. From the 1900s thro ...

. He ended his career in Ferencvárosi. Obitz capped 15 times for the Hungary national team and participated the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris.

Coaching career

Obitz' first team as a manager was a Romanian club

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. From 1932 to 1934 he worked for the

Turkish Football Federation The Turkish Football Federation (; TFF) is the governing body of association football in Turkey. It was formed on 23 April 1923, and joined FIFA the same year and UEFA in 1962. It organizes the Turkey national football team, the Turkish Footba ...

. He coached

NK Ljubljana Nogometni klub Ljubljana ( en, Ljubljana Football Club), commonly referred to as NK Ljubljana or simply Ljubljana, was a Slovenian football club based in the capital city of Ljubljana. The club was established in 1909 and dissolved in 2005. Hi ...

in the

1936–37 Yugoslav Football Championship The 1936–37 Yugoslav Football Championship (Serbo-Croatian, Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1936/37 / Државно првенство 1936/37) was the 14th season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier association football, football comp ...

. In 1939 Obitz started coaching the Finnish national team but soon returned to Hungary due to

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Honours

* Hungarian Championship:

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: 1921, 1927, 1928 *

Mitropa Cup The Mitropa Cup, officially called the La Coupe de l'Europe Centrale or Central European Cup, was one of the first international major European football cups for club sides. It was conducted among the successor states of the former Austria-Hunga ...

References

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