Ferenc Mészáros (11 April 1950 – 9 January 2023) was a Hungarian

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 lea ...

who played as a

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Career

Born in

Budapest Budapest is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns of Hungary, most populous city of Hungary. It is the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, tenth-largest city in the European Union by popul ...

, Mészáros played club football in Hungary and Portugal for VM Egyetértés,

Vasas SC Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest. Members of the ''Hungarian Union of Iron Workers'' founded the club as ''Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja'', the "Sport Club of Iron and Metal Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club ...

Sporting CP Sporting Clube de Portugal (), otherwise referred to as Sporting CP or simply Sporting (particularly within Portugal), or as Sporting Lisbon in other countries,

, Farense, Győri ETO and Vitória Setúbal, Mészáros earned a total of 29 caps for

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, and represented them at the

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

and

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street Bridge in Washington, D.C. ...

World Cups.

References

1950 births 2023 deaths Footballers from Budapest Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Vasas SC players Sporting CP footballers S.C. Farense players Győri ETO FC players Vitória F.C. players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Primeira Liga players Segunda Divisão players 1978 FIFA World Cup players 1982 FIFA World Cup players Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Portugal 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen Hungarian football managers vasas SC managers Vörös Meteor Egyetértés SK players {{Hungary-footy-goalkeeper-stub