Károly Nemes (also Dragan/Dragutin Nemeš) was a Hungarian football

goalkeeper In many team sports which involve scoring goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or intercepting o ...

and coach. He is best known for his work on champion teams of

SK Rapid Wien Sportklub Rapid Wien (), commonly known as Rapid Vienna, is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. Rapid has won the most Austrian championship titles (32), including the first title in the season 1911–12, ...

and

SK Jugoslavija Sportski klub Jugoslavija ( en, Sport Club Yugoslavia), commonly known as SK Jugoslavija (Serbian Cyrillic: Cпортски клуб Југославија) was a Serbian football club from Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija ...

. He coached throughout Central and South-Eastern Europe.

Career

Player

He played with

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and next MTK BudapestKaroly Nemes
at Rapidarchiv.at and then became the first foreigner to play in

. He played two seasons with Rapid, between 1917 and 1919, and, after serving as vice-champion in 1917–18. A year later he won the double, the 1918–19 Austrian football championship and the 1919 Austrian Cup. He played a total of 27 league matches for Rapid. In 1919 he moved to

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, then the

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, where he continued his career. Initially he joined NAK Novi Sad and later was brought to Belgrade to join

and win the Yugoslav Championship two times in a row, in

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and

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. He made 6 appearances in those two seasons in the Yugoslav championship and many more in the First League of the

Belgrade Football Subassociation The Belgrade Football Subassociation, commonly known by its initials, BLP ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: ''Beogradski loptački podsavez'' / Београдски лоптачки подсавез - БЛП) was one of the regional football governing bodi ...

. While in Yugoslavia he became commonly known either as ''Karlo'' or ''Dragutin Nemeš''."Pola veka"
by Vladislav Beljanski, Jovan Dejanović, Luka Dotlić, Kosta Hadži and Jovan Vilovac (pags. 104, 105)

Coach

Nemes coaching abilities were characterised as of the avant-garde Central European school, noted for his psychological preparation of the team before matches, beside a developed work in the physical condition of the players. In 1927 he was brought by

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, the second l ...

president Kosta Hadži to

Novi Sad Novi Sad ( sr-Cyrl, Нови Сад, ; hu, Újvidék, ; german: Neusatz; see below for other names) is the second largest city in Serbia and the capital of the autonomous province of Vojvodina. It is located in the southern portion of the Pan ...

where he first coached, briefly replacing main coach Otto Necas. He was the coach of the Bulgarian national team in 1930."Fudbal u Kraljevini Jugoslaviji"
by Milorad Sijić, (pag. 172) Between Summer 1930 and September 1931 he coached Swiss side

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. He had a second coaching spell with Vojvodina in 1932, staying for almost two years. He returned in 1939. He coached his former team

in 1934. Then he coached NAK Novi Sad winning with them the Novi Sad Football Subassociation League and a third place in the

1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship The 1935–36 Yugoslav Football Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1935/36 / Државно првенство 1935/36) was the 13th season of Kingdom of Yugoslavia's premier football competition. It was played in a cup form ...

. He coached in Germany, Switzerland and Bulgaria. During the 1930s he coached Cibalia Vinkovci. He took charge of SK Bata Borovo coming from SK Jugoslavia, in July 1938, replacing Bilek.Subotički Športski list
n141, 18 July 1938, page 3 In the early 1940s he returned to Yugoslavia and coached SK Bata Borovo in the

1940–41 Serbian League The 1940–41 Serbian League ( Serbian: 1940–41 Српска лига / 1940–41 Srpska liga) was first held after the formation of the Banovina of Croatia and the consequent withdrawal of Croatian and Slovenian based clubs from the Yugoslav F ...

. He later moved to Hungary and lived in

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Honours

As player: Rapid Wien * Austrian Championship: 1918–19 * Austrian Cup: 1919 SK Jugoslavija * Yugoslav Championship:

and

As coach: NAK Novi Sad * Novi Sad Subassociation League: 1934 Vojvodina * Novi Sad Subassociation League: 1939

References

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