Lajos Szűcs (10 December 1943 – 12 July 2020) was a Hungarian

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defender, who played for Dorog,

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and Vasas Izzó. He won a gold medal in football at the 1968 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in football at the 1972 Summer Olympics, and also participated in UEFA Euro 1972 for the

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. He was Hungarian footballer of the year in 1968 and 1971.

Personal life

He was born in

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(today in

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). He was married to

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, one of Hungary's best known and most popular actresses who also served as a Socialist member of the Hungarian Parliament from 1994 to 1998. He died on 12 July 2020 in

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at the age of 76.

Sources

* Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, III. kötet (S–Z). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, 181. o., * Rejtő László–Lukács László–Szepesi György: Felejthetetlen 90 percek (Sportkiadó, 1977) * Rózsaligeti László: Magyar olimpiai lexikon. Budapest: Datus. 2000. * Bocsák Miklós: Hogyan élnek olimpiai bajnokaink? (Budapest, 1998)

References

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