Lajos Kű (born 5 July 1948) is a Hungarian former

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

who played as a

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 ...

for Videoton,

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros ...

, Club Brugge and

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. In his second game for Club Brugge, he played in the

1978 European Cup Final The 1978 European Cup Final was an association football match between Liverpool of England and Club Brugge of Belgium on 10 May 1978 at Wembley Stadium, London, England (the venue was decided in Bern by the UEFA Executive Committee on 20 Septemb ...

against

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. He won a silver medal in

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, and also participated in

UEFA Euro 1972 The 1972 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in Belgium. This was the fourth UEFA European Championship, held every four years and endorsed by UEFA. The final tournament took place between 14 and 18 June 1972. Only four ...

for the Hungary national team. After having spent 15 years abroad, he returned to Hungary in the early 1990s, working as a businessman.

Honours

Ferencváros *

Hungarian Cup The Hungarian Cup ( hu, Magyar Kupa) is the Hungarian cup competition for football clubs. It was started by the Hungarian Football Association, the ''Magyar Labdarúgó Szövetség,'' in 1909, eight years after the commencement of the Hungarian ...

: 1971–72, 1973–74 Club Brugge *

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: runner-up 1977–78 Hungary *

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1972 Within the context of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) it was the longest year ever, as two leap seconds were added during this 366-day year, an event which has not since been repeated. (If its start and end are defined using mean solar tim ...

( silver medal)

References

* ''Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?'' ho's Who in the Hungarian Sport Life Volume II (I–R).

Szekszárd Szekszárd (, formerly also ''Szegzárd''; hr, Seksar; german: Sechshard or ; sr, Сексард) is a small city in southern Hungary and the capital of Tolna County. By population, Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area ...

: Babits Kiadó, 1995, p. 217., * László Rózsaligeti. ''Magyar olimpiai lexikon'' ungarian Encyclopedia of Olympics

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: Datus, 2000. 1948 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers SC Eisenstadt players Belgian Pro League players Ferencvárosi TC footballers Club Brugge KV players UEFA Euro 1972 players Olympic footballers for Hungary Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium People from Székesfehérvár Volán FC players {{hungary-footy-midfielder-stub