Lajos Kű (born 5 July 1948) is a Hungarian former

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who played as a

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for Videoton,

Ferencvárosi TC Ferencvárosi Torna Club, commonly known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, FTC is a Hungary, Hungarian professional Association football, football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hunga ...

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and

SC Eisenstadt SC Eisenstadt is an Austrian association football club based in Eisenstadt. Established in 1907, it played in the Austrian Football Bundesliga. It folded in 2008. In 2018, SC Eisenstadt started again in the lowest league (2. Klasse Nord) in Burge ...

. In his second game for Club Brugge, he played in the 1978 European Cup Final against

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. He won a silver medal in

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, and also participated in

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for the Hungary national team. After having spent 15 years abroad, he returned to Hungary in the early 1990s, working as a businessman.

Honours

Ferencváros *

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: 1971–72, 1973–74 Club Brugge *

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: runner-up 1977–78 Hungary *

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(

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)

References

* ''Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?'' ho's Who in the Hungarian Sport Life Volume II (I–R).

Szekszárd Szekszárd (, formerly also ''Szegzárd''; ; or ; ) is a small city in southern Hungary and the capital of Tolna County. By population, Szekszárd is the smallest county capital in Hungary; by area, it is the second-smallest (after Tatabánya). ...

: Babits Kiadó, 1995, p. 217., * László Rózsaligeti. ''Magyar olimpiai lexikon'' ungarian Encyclopedia of Olympics

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 ...

: Datus, 2000. 1948 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers SC Eisenstadt players Belgian Pro League players Ferencvárosi TC footballers Club Brugge KV players UEFA Euro 1972 players Olympic footballers for Hungary Footballers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Hungary Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Austria Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Austria Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium People from Székesfehérvár Volán FC players 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{hungary-footy-midfielder-stub