Imre Markos (9 June 1908 – 27 September 1960) was a Hungarian

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player and coach.

Career

Playing career

Markos, who played as a

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, spent his professional career in both Hungary and France, playing for

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and

Stade Rennais Stade Rennais Football Club (), commonly referred to as Stade Rennais FC, Stade Rennais, Rennes, or simply SRFC, is a French professional football club based in Rennes, Brittany. They compete in Ligue 1, the top tier of French football, and pl ...

. Markos also represented

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at international level, scoring five goals in twenty games between 1929 and 1935.

Coaching career

Markos managed

CS Târgu Mureș CS Târgu Mureș was a football club based in Târgu Mureș, Mureș County in central Romania. It was founded in 1944 and it soon became one of the best teams from Mureș. The club was dissolved in 1960. History In 1944, the team of the railway ...

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, TPS Turku,

Degerfors IF Degerfors IF is a Swedish football club located in Degerfors. The club, formed 13 January 1907, is currently playing in the highest tier in Swedish football, Allsvenskan. Background Degerfors IF first played in the Allsvenskan in 1939 maki ...

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, Fenerbahçe and IFK Kristianstad.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Markos, Imre 1908 births 1960 deaths Men's association football forwards Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Stade Rennais F.C. players Ligue 1 players 1934 FIFA World Cup players Hungarian football managers Hungarian expatriate football managers Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in France Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Finland Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Debreceni VSC managers Turun Palloseura managers Degerfors IF managers Fenerbahçe S.K. (football) managers Place of birth missing