Imre Boda (born 10 October 1961) is a retired

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, who played as a forward.

Club career

Boda began playing youth football with

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. He would join the senior team in 1980, and make 190 league appearances for the club. A short spell with

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followed. Boda moved to Greece in July 1988, initially joining Greek first division side

Ethnikos Olympiakos Volos F.C. Olympiacos Volos Football Club ( el, Π.Α.Ε. Α.Σ. Ολυμπιακός Βόλου 1937) is a Greek professional Association football, football club based in the city of Volos, Greece. They currently participating in the Gamma Ethniki. History ...

for two seasons. He would lead the Greek league in goal-scoring, notching 20 goals during the 1988–89 season. Olympiakos Volos were relegated after the 1989–90 season, and Boda moved to

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for two seasons. However, he left the club in December 1991, and would return to Olympiakos Volos, now playing in the Greek second division. After five seasons in Greek football, Boda returned to Hungary and joined

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for one season, playing his last match in October 1993.

International career

Boda made eight appearances for the

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, including two 1990 FIFA World Cup qualifying matches.

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* * 1961 births Living people Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Super League Greece players MTK Budapest FC players Vasas SC players Budapesti VSC footballers Olympiacos Volos F.C. players OFI Crete F.C. players Men's association football forwards Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Sportspeople from Szolnok Footballers from Jász-Nagykun-Szolnok County {{Hungary-footy-forward-stub