Miklós Vadas (1906 – 7 April 1981) was a Hungarian

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player and coach who played as a

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Football career

As a player, he played with third-tier side Somogy between 1923 and 1927 before joining ERSO from Budapest. Later, he left Hungary and moved overseas to the United States, where he played with

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in 1929, with

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between 1929 and 1930, and

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. Then he returned to Europe and played in France with

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in 1934–35, and then in Switzerland with Porretruy, where he was player-coach between 1936 and 1939.Vadas Miklós
at tempofradi.hu He was a globetrotter as a player, and he would so in his coaching career as well. In the Autumn of 1950 he coached ÉDOSZ Ferencvaros in the 1950 Hungarian championship season, but he disappointed as he finished only 10th out of 16 teams and got sacked. He then started his coaching career abroad, where he first coached the Albania national team in 1953, leading the team in a friendly.National games under Miklós Vadas
/ref> He managed

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between 1960 and 1965 and

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between 1965 and 1966.

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* 1906 births 1981 deaths Hungarian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Brooklyn Hakoah players Brooklyn Wanderers (1922–1931) players American Soccer League (1921–1933) players Olympique Lyonnais players Hungarian football managers Ferencvárosi TC managers Albania national football team managers Syria national football team managers Jordan national football team managers Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Hungarian expatriate football managers Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in France Expatriate men's footballers in France 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-footy-bio-stub