Jenő Ábrahám (; 1903 – 1973) was a Hungarian

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who represented the

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at international level. While playing in Yugoslavia, he was recorded in the chronicles as "Saraz", a Serbo-Croatian transliteration of the Hungarian word "Száraz", which means "Dry" in Hungarian, a name he received probably because of his looks. Many websites confuse Jenő Ábrahám with Eugen "Geza" Ábrahám. The two played in SK Vojvodina in same time, and usually the first was recorded as Saraz I and the second as Saraz II. Many football-specialized internet websites merged the two and erroneously named the player described in this article as Geza Abraham Sarasz.

Club career

Born in

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, Hungary, he started playing in his hometown club

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(SZAK). In 1922 he came to Yugoslavia to play in SK Vojvodina. In September 1924 he was back in Hungary playing with SZAK. In summer 1925 he moved to another Yugoslav club, the

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giants 1. HŠK Građanski where he would play one season and win the

1926 Yugoslav First League The 1926 National Championship ( Serbo-Croato-Slovenian: Državno prvenstvo 1926 / Државно првенство 1926) was a football competition held within the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes. The two dominant teams of pre-World War II ...

. He usually played as left-winger. In 1926 he left Yugoslavia and joined Bástya playing with them in the Hungarian Championship between 1926 and 1930.

International career

Between 1922 and 1923, he played two matches for the

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while playing with Vojvodina having scored two goals. He participated, and scored twice, in the friendly match played on 28 July 1922 in Zagreb against

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, which was a first ever win of the Yugoslavia national team, with a final result of 4–3. His other, and last, match was a year later, on 3 July 1923, in a friendly match in

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, against

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, a 2–1 win.Jenő Ábrahám
at EU-football.info

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