Iuliu Farkaș (also known as Gyula Farkas; 8 September 1923 – 9 May 1984) was a

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n footballer who played as a

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Club career

Iuliu Farkaș was born on 8 September 1923 in

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, Romania, starting to play junior level football in 1930 at local club, Jiul. He started his senior career during the

1940–41 Divizia B The 1940–41 Divizia B was the seventh season of the second tier of the Romanian football league system. The league included 26 teams divided in three regional series. Many changes in the composition of the series were caused by the beginning of ...

season, helping Jiul promote to

Divizia A Liga I (; ''First League''), also spelled as Liga 1 and officially known as SuperLiga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Romania and the highest level of the Romanian football league system. Contested by 1 ...

, contributing with six goals scored. In 1941 he went to play for Hungarian side, Ferencvárosi where he made his

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debut on 6 September 1942 when coach

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used him all the minutes in a 3–3 with

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. His following game in the competition took place in February 1943, scoring a goal in a 8–2 win over Kolozsvári AC, a week later scoring in a 4–0 victory against

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. During his spell with ''

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'', Farkaș won two

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. Afterwards he spent the 1943–44 season at Kolozsvári AC in the same league. In 1944 he returned to Romania, playing for

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for a short while, then he went at

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where on 25 August 1946 he made his Divizia A debut in a 3–1 away win against his former side, Jiul Petroșani in which he netted one goal, managing a personal record of 14 goals until the end of the

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. Then Farkaș went for one season at Ciocanul București who merged with

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in order to form

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where on 21 August 1948 he scored four goals in a 4–1 over his former side, Jiul. He would also score two doubles in two draws with

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. In 1951 he went back to hometown club, Jiul where he spent several successful seasons, earning the nickname "Picior de aur" (Golden Foot), the highlights being four goals netted in a 5–0 win against Știința Timișoara and a hat-trick in a 3–3 with his former club, Dinamo. His last Divizia A appearance took place on 13 March 1955 in a 0–0 with Locomotiva Constanța, having a total of 151 matches with 75 goals scored in the competition. Iuliu Farkaș ended his career in 1956 after playing one season in

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for

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International career

Iuliu Farkaș played nine matches and scored six goals for

, making his debut on 30 September 1945 when coach

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sent him on the field at half-time to replace Francisc Spielmann in a friendly which ended with a 7–2 loss in front of

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. He played four games at the

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, scoring a hat-trick in a 4–0 away victory against

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and one goal in a 3–1 home loss with

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. He played two games at the

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scoring two goals in a 3–2 victory against

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. Farkaș's last game for the national team was a friendly which ended 1–1 with

. He also played one game for Romania's B side.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Farkaș goal''.

Death

Iuliu Farkaș died on 9 May 1984 at age 60.

Honours

Jiul Petroșani *

: 1940–41 Ferencvárosi *

: 1941–42, 1942–43

Notes

References

External links

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