Nicolae Kovács (, 29 December 1911 – 7 July 1977) was a Romanian-Hungarian

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player and coach. He was a dual international football player and played both for

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 ...

and

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. He played in 116 matches and scored 43 goals for Club Atletic Oradea. For the

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, he won 37

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and participated in the 1930,

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and

1938 Events January * January 1 – state-owned enterprise, State-owned railway networks are created by merger, in France (SNCF) and the Netherlands (Nederlandse Spoorwegen – NS). * January 20 – King Farouk of Egypt marries Saf ...

World Cups, being one of five players to have appeared in all three of the pre-war World Cups. The other players were Edmond Delfour, Étienne Mattler, Bernard Voorhoof and

Rudolf Bürger Rudolf Bürger (31 October 1908 – 20 January 1980) was a Romanian international footballer and coach of German ethnicity. He is one of a few men who participated in each of the three pre-World War II FIFA World Cups. At club level, he play ...

, according to official

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match reports. He represented the

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only once, in 1941, also scoring a goal in that game. He was the older brother of Ștefan Kovács, the famous coach who led

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to two European Cups in 1972 and 1973.

International goals

Romania's goal tally first

Honours

Player

;Ripensia Timișoara *

Liga I 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 ...

(1): 1935–36 *

Cupa României The Cupa României () is a Association football, football cup competition for List of football clubs in Romania, Romanian teams which has been held annually since 1933–34 Cupa României, 1933–34, except during World War II. It is the Romania ...

(1): 1935–36

Coach

;CA Oradea *

(1): 1948–49 ;Politehnica Timișoara *

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(1):

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kovacs, Nicolae 1911 births 1977 deaths Footballers from Caraș-Severin County People from the Kingdom of Hungary Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Romanian expatriate men's footballers Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent Hungary men's international footballers Hungarian men's footballers 1930 FIFA World Cup players 1934 FIFA World Cup players 1938 FIFA World Cup players Dual internationalists (men's football) Liga I players Chinezul Timișoara players Banatul Timișoara players FC Ripensia Timișoara players Valenciennes FC players Club Atletic Oradea players Tricolor Ploiești players Crișana Oradea players FC Universitatea Cluj managers CS Gaz Metan Mediaș managers Club Atletic Oradea managers CSM Jiul Petroșani managers Men's association football forwards Romanian football managers Expatriate men's footballers in France Romanian expatriate sportspeople in France 20th-century Romanian sportsmen 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen