László Nagy (footballer)
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László Nagy (born 21 October 1949) is a retired Hungarian
football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
player who played for Újpesti Dózsa. Nagy is most famous for his participation in the gold medal-winning Hungarian team on the
1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...
, and for playing at the
1978 FIFA World Cup The 1978 FIFA World Cup was the 11th edition of the FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football world championship tournament among the men's senior national teams. It was held in Argentina between 1 and 25 June. The Cup was won by t ...
. He played 25 games and scored 7 goals for the Hungarian national team. He also played a season for
FC Locarno FC Locarno is a Swiss football club based in Locarno in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino Ticino (), sometimes Tessin (), officially the Republic and Canton of Ticino or less formally the Canton of Ticino,, informally ''Canton Ticino'' ...
. After finishing his career, Nagy became a coach, managing
Újpest FC Újpest Football Club () is a Hungarian professional association football, football club, based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I. Formed in 1885, Újpest reached the first division of the Hungarian League in Nemzeti ...
from 1996 to 1997.


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* MTI Ki Kicsoda 2006, Magyar Távirati Iroda, Budapest, 2005, p. 1233. * Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, II. kötet (I–R). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, p. 358., * RejtÅ‘ László–Lukács László–Szepesi György: Felejthetetlen 90 percek (Sportkiadó, 1977)
Stats at MOB (p. 10.)
1949 births Living people 1978 FIFA World Cup players Hungarian men's footballers Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Hungarian football managers Olympic footballers for Hungary Olympic gold medalists for Hungary Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Men's association football forwards Újpest FC players Újpest FC managers FC Locarno players Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Footballers from Somogy County BFC Siófok managers Kecskeméti TE managers Nemzeti Bajnokság I managers {{Hungary-footy-forward-stub