Géza Kalocsay (30 May 1913 – 26 September 2008) was a footballer and manager from
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
, who played internationally for both
Czechoslovakia
, rue, Чеськословеньско, , yi, טשעכאסלאוואקיי,
, common_name = Czechoslovakia
, life_span = 1918–19391945–1992
, p1 = Austria-Hungary
, image_p1 ...
(3 caps) and
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
(2 caps).
At the time of his death in September 2008 at the age of 95, he was the last surviving player to have represented either Czechoslovakia or Hungary before the
Second World War
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposi ...
.
Club career
He played for several clubs in the Hungarian championship namely
Kispest FC,
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 ...
,
Újpest FC
Újpest Football Club () is a Hungarian professional football club, based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I.
Formed in 1885, Újpest reached the first division of the Hungarian League in 1905 and has been relegat ...
,
Ungvár
Uzhhorod ( uk, У́жгород, , ; ) is a city and municipality on the river Uzh in western Ukraine, at the border with Slovakia and near the border with Hungary. The city is approximately equidistant from the Baltic, the Adriatic and the ...
and
Szentlőrinci AC.
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International career
He made two appearances for
Hungarian national team.
In popular culture
In the Polish film ''
Stars
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth ma ...
'' ( pl, Gwiazdy) from 2017, he was portrayed by
Witold Paszt.
Honours
Ferencváros
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Nemzeti Bajnokság I
The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, "National Championship"), also known as NB I, is the top level of the Hungarian football league system. The league is officially named OTP Bank Liga after its title sponsor OTP Bank. UEFA currently ranks the league 28th ...
:
1940–41
References
External links
Újpest FC official siteProfile on Czech federation official site
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1913 births
2008 deaths
People from Berehove
People from the Kingdom of Hungary
Association football forwards
Hungarian footballers
Czechoslovak footballers
Czechoslovakia international footballers
Hungary international footballers
AC Sparta Prague players
Újpest FC players
Ligue 1 players
1934 FIFA World Cup players
FK Partizan managers
Hungarian football managers
Fehérvár FC managers
Debreceni VSC managers
Ferencvárosi TC managers
Standard Liège managers
Újpest FC managers
Górnik Zabrze managers
Dual internationalists (football)
Expatriate footballers in France
Expatriate football managers in Belgium
Expatriate football managers in Egypt
Hungarian expatriates in Poland
Expatriate football managers in Poland
Expatriate football managers in Yugoslavia
Hungarians in Slovakia
Czechoslovak people of Hungarian descent
Al Ahly SC managers
Pécsi MFC managers
Pakistan national football team managers
Olympique Lillois players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I managers