Imre Kovács (26 November 1921 – 9 March 1996) was a
Hungarian football 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
Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the ...
in the
1954 FIFA World Cup
The 1954 FIFA World Cup was the fifth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football tournament for senior men's national teams of the nations affiliated to FIFA. It was held in Switzerland from 16 June to 4 July. Switzer ...
. He also played for
MTK Budapest FC
Magyar Testgyakorlók Köre Budapest Futball Club or shortly MTK is a Hungarian football club based in Józsefváros, Budapest. The team currently plays in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II. The club's colours are blue and white. As one of the most suc ...
. He won a gold medal in
football at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
His brother,
József
József () is a Hungarian masculine given name. It is the Hungarian name equivalent to Joseph.
Notable people bearing this name include:
* József Braun (also known as József Barna; 1901–1943), Hungarian Olympic footballer
* József Cse ...
, was also a footballer.
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1921 births
1996 deaths
Footballers from Budapest
Hungarian men's footballers
Hungary men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
MTK Budapest FC players
1954 FIFA World Cup players
Olympic footballers for Hungary
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Hungary
Hungarian football managers
Fehérvár FC managers
MTK Budapest FC managers
Újpest FC managers
Győri ETO FC managers
Pécsi MFC managers
Nemzeti Bajnokság I managers
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