Imre Mathesz (25 March 1937 – 6 December 2010) was a Hungarian
football
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player and coach.
Career
Playing career
Mathesz, who played as a
midfielder
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, played club football for
Vasas SC Vasas may refer to:
*Vasas SC, Hungarian sports club
*Győri Vasas, former name of Hungarian sports club Győri ETO (1950-65)
*Mihály Vasas (born 1933), Hungarian footballer and manager
*Zoltán Vasas
Zoltán Vasas (born 5 November 1977) is a ...
.
Mathesz represented
Hungary
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at the
1966 FIFA World Cup
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, making two appearances in qualifying and two in the tournament itself. Mathesz also played in two qualifying games for the
1968 European Championship.
Coaching career
After retiring as a player, Mathesz became a football manager, and took charge of
Kaposvári Rákóczi in 1973.
Later life and death
Matesz died in a car crash on 6 December 2010, at the age of 73.
References
1937 births
2010 deaths
Hungarian men's footballers
Hungary men's international footballers
Hungarian football managers
Vasas SC players
1966 FIFA World Cup players
Road incident deaths in Hungary
Footballers from Budapest
Men's association football midfielders
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