Gáspár Borbás (26 July 1884 – 14 October 1976) was a Hungarian amateur

association football Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who competed in the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

. He was a member of the Hungarian Olympic squad and played one match in the main tournament as well as two matches in the consolation tournament. He scored the first goal of the Hungarian national team in 1903 against Cech. The fast left winger played 41 times in the national team and scored 11 goals between (1903 and 1916). He started his career in Ferencvaros, and he scored the club's first championship goal in 1901. On 1904 he went to MAC, but returned to the Ferencvaros in 1910. He ended his career in 1916. He holds that scoring a goal is the responsibility of the internal strikers. Whatever celebration comes to the one who scores the winning goal, he passes that joy on to someone else. He misses a lot of goals when he only centers instead of a safe shot. He is the most famous Hungarian player. He is also considered the greatest abroad. On the news that he is playing, the opponent changes tactics and usually a player is assigned solely to catch him. (National Sports, October 31, 1908)

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