Árpád Fazekas (23 June 1930 – 10 August 2018) was a Hungarian international

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who played as a

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Career

Born in

Szombathely } Szombathely (; ; also see #Etymology, names) is the 10th largest city in Hungary. It is the administrative centre of Vas County in the west of the country, located near the border with Austria. Szombathely lies by the streams ''Perint'' and '' ...

, Fazekas played for Budapesti Dózsa, Vörös Lobogo,

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Hessen Kassel KSV Hessen Kassel is a semi-professional German football club based in Kassel, Hesse. KSV competes in the German Regionalliga Südwest, the fourth tier of German football. Nicknamed "Die Löwen" (the lions), the club was founded as FC Union 9 ...

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and RC Tirlemont. Following the

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, he left Hungary and joined

. Verbytsky, I.
Yozhef Sabo: In Moscow I was constantly called fascist
'. UA-Football. 4 March 2015. In 1960 when Dynamo Kiev was visiting Bayern he told Yozhef Sabo to stay in

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. He said that he has his own two stories house and a store in Munich. He earned five international caps for the Hungary national team.

Later life and death

He died in

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on 10 August 2018, at the age of 88.

References

1930 births 2018 deaths Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Újpest FC players MTK Budapest FC players FC Bayern Munich footballers KSV Hessen Kassel players R.S.C. Anderlecht players K.V.K. Tienen-Hageland players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Belgian Pro League players Footballers from Szombathely Men's association football goalkeepers Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in West Germany Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-footy-goalkeeper-stub