István Kocsis (6 October 1949 – 9 June 1994) was a Hungarian professional
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
er who played as a
defender. He participated in the 1978 World Cup in which
Hungary
Hungary is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning much of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the south, Croatia and ...
was eliminated in the first round. His nicknames were Sandor and Pischta.
From 1975 to 1981, he played for
Budapest Honvéd
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 ...
before moving to Belgium where he played for
Lierse for two seasons (66 games),
after which he decided to return to Hungary to play for
FC Sopron
FC Sopron is a Hungarian football club from the town of Sopron, near the Austrian border. It was founded in 1921 as ''Soproni Postás''. The club's home stadium is Stadion Városi with a capacity of 5,300.
History
With the beginning of the sea ...
, before ending his career in a lower-class Austrian team.
He died of cancer at the age of 44.
References
External links
FIFA Official Website*
Magyar Version of Wikipedia
1949 births
1994 deaths
People from Csorna
Hungarian men's footballers
Footballers from Győr-Moson-Sopron County
Men's association football defenders
Hungary men's international footballers
1978 FIFA World Cup players
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Lierse S.K. players
Hungarian expatriate men's footballers
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Deaths from cancer in Hungary
20th-century Hungarian sportsmen
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