László Szőke (17 October 1930 – 19 March 2014) was a Hungarian

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Career

Szőke was born in

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. In 1949 he moved to Italy under contract to Fanfulla before becoming a well-known name in Italian football by being transferred to first division Udinese who went on to place themselves in second position, behind the great

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, in the Serie A division during the 1955–56 season. Szőke had a spell in Colombia with

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during the 1951 season. Subsequently he transferred to

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and with them he won the Italian serie B championship in 1957/58. At the end of the 1960 season he was ceded to Brescia, coached at the time by another Hungarian born personage in

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, only to return to Trieste at the end of that season. With the Triestina team, now in Serie B, he became one of the squad's focal points, winning the 1961/62 premiership, returning immediately to Serie B where he ended his playing days in 1963 after suffering a serious leg injury. He remained in the

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area, and died in hospital in that city on 19 March 2014, at the age of 83.

References

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