Imre Pozsonyi (also known as Jesza Poszony, first name also as Emmerich and Emérico; 12 December 1880 – 2 October 1963) was a Hungarian football player and manager.

Career

Pozsonyi started his career playing for Magyar ÚE and moved 1903 to MTK where he won the Hungarian Championship of Hungary. He also played for the Hungarian national team in its first match against Austria. In 1921 he became manager of the Polish club

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, with which he won the first national Polish championship in that year. In 1921 he also guided the Polish national team through its first international match, which was lost 0–1 to Hungary in Budapest in December 1921. In December 1922 he became assistant to the English manager

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. After Greenwell's sacking August 1923, he took over the head coach role until October, when he was replaced by the Englishman

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. In July 1924 he was again head coach, but he was replaced in December by the Englishman Conyers "Ralph" Kirby, under whom the team won the Spanish Cup and the Catalan championship until the end of the season. In April 1926 he became manager of Građanski Zagreb, today's

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, with which he won the Yugoslav championship of 1926. There he left in October, because he could not get his work permit renewed. After a couple of years with Ujpest FC in Budapest, where he became runner-up in cup and championship in 1927, he spent some time in the coaching staff of MTK. Early Match 1930 he left for Mexico to become manager of

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. He got the job there, because György Orth opted for a job in Chile instead. Pozsonyi won with the club the championship of 1930. He was back in Budapest in 1932 on the occasion of the 30 anniversary of the first match between Hungary and Austria of which he had been a part. By then he had retired from management. He died on 2 October 1963 in Budapest and was laid to rest at the

Farkasréti Cemetery Farkasréti Cemetery or Farkasrét Cemetery ( hu, Farkasréti temető) is one of the most famous cemeteries in Budapest. It opened in 1894 and is noted for its extensive views of the city (several people wanted it more to be a resort area than a c ...

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Honours

;MTK * Hungarian Championship: 1904 ;Cracovia Kraków * Polish Championship: 1921 ;Građanski Zagreb * Kingdom of Yugoslavia Championship: 1926 ;Real Club España * Mexican Championship: 1929–30

External links

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Poszony
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Jesza Poszony (1923 and 1924)

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Literature

* Tamás Dénes, Mihály Sándor, Éva B. Bába: ''A magyar labdarúgás története I.: Amatorök és álamatorök (1897–1926)'', Campus Kiadó (Debreceni Campus Nonprofit Közhasznú Kft.), Debrecen, 2014. * Jonathan Wilson: ''Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game'', Blink Publishing (London, UK), 2019.

References

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