István Juhász (born 17 July 1945) was a Hungarian

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midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. 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 ...

, who played for

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 wa ...

. He won a goal medal in

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and also participated in

UEFA Euro 1972 The 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Belgium. This was the fourth UEFA European Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 14 and 18 June 1972. Only four ...

for the

Hungary national football team The Hungary national football team ( hu, magyar labdarúgó-válogatott) represents Hungary in men's international football and is controlled by the Hungarian Football Federation. The team has made 9 appearances in the FIFA World Cup and 4 app ...

. Following the end of his career, he went to live in the U.S..

References

Sources

* Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, II. kötet (I–R). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, 41. o., * Rejtő László–Lukács László–Szepesi György: Felejthetetlen 90 percek (Sportkiadó, 1977) * Dénes Tamás – Rochy Zoltán: A Kupagyőztesek Európa-kupája története (Budapest, 2000) * Bocsák Miklós: Hogyan élnek olimpiai bajnokaink? (Budapest, 1998) * Rózsaligeti László: Magyar olimpiai lexikon. Budapest: Datus. 2000.
ftc.hu: A VVK hősei
– Interview with Juhász
vernarancsfoci.hu: European Cup finals

ftcbk.eu: Ferencváros in European Cup Finals

Az FTC örökös bajnokai
1945 births Living people Association football midfielders Hungarian footballers Hungary international footballers Ferencvárosi TC footballers UEFA Euro 1972 players Olympic footballers of Hungary Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics {{hungary-footy-midfielder-stub