Antal "Toni" Szabó (born 1894) was a Hungarian

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...

manager and former player.

Club career

Toni Szabó played with

Vasas SC Vasas SC () is a Hungarian sports club based in Budapest. Members of the ''Hungarian Union of Iron Workers'' founded the club as ''Vas- és Fémmunkások Sport Clubja'', the "Sport Club of Iron and Metal Workers", on 16 March 1911. The club ...

along Ferenc Plattkó and received a call for the Hungarian national team in 1917 for a game against Austria (Hungary won 4–1, Szabó didn't debut)."Prvaci druge lige bićemo mi!" izjavio je Toni Sabo trener "Jugoslavije" iz Jabuke ("We will win the second league!" words of Toni Szabó coach of Jugoslavija Jabuka)
at Vreme, page 10, from 2-3-1939 Then he played with

Budapesti AK Budapesti Atlétikai Klub, also known as BAK, is a Hungarian football club from the town of Budapest that competes in the BLSZ III., url=http://budapesti-atletikai-klub.hu History Budapesti Atlétikai Klub was founded in 1900 by a group of athl ...

in the 1920–21 Hungarian championship.Szabó Antal
at nela.hu It was the post-World War I period and Szabó decided to leave Hungary and moved to Yugoslavia where he joined Serbian side

BSK Belgrade OFK Beograd ( sr-Cyrl, ОФК Београд – Омладински фудбалски клуб Београд, English: ''Belgrade Youth Football Club''), also known in English as OFK Belgrade and currently referred to as OFK Beograd Mozzart ...

. In BSK, besides player, he also became coach of the youth teams. Szabó became among the pioneers in Serbia in the field of youth development. BSK was along

SK Jugoslavija Sportski klub Jugoslavija ( sr-Cyrl, Cпортски клуб Југославија), commonly known as Jugoslavija, was a Serbian football club based in Belgrade. It was originally formed as SK Velika Srbija in 1913 and changed its name to SK Ju ...

the dominating Serbian club, and Szabó youth program produced players such as Blagoje "Moša" Marjanović and

Aleksandar Tirnanić Aleksandar "Tirke" Tirnanić ( sr-Cyrl, Александар "Тирке" Тирнанић; 15 July 1910 – 13 December 1992) was a Serbian football player and manager. Early life and beginnings Born in the central Serbian small town of Krnjev ...

which, soon after, became best Yugoslav players. As first-team player, Szabó became among BSK key-players. His exhibitions kept the fans impressed, and specially notorious was the time when he scored all three goals in a 3–1 victory of BSK against

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 ...

. The three goals he scored against his compatriots entered history because they sealed what became the first ever victory of any Yugoslav club against Ferencvaros, considered back then unbeatable. Aiming to further improve his coaching skills, Szabó left BSK in summer 1924 and became the main coach of PSK Pančevo. Not long afterwards he moved to

FK Slavija Sarajevo Fudbalski klub Slavija Sarajevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Фудбалски клуб Славија Сарајево) is a professional association football club from the city of Istočno Sarajevo, Republika Srpska that is situated in Bosnia and Herzeg ...

where he took the role of player-manager and contributed greatly to Slavija's rise to become among top Yugoslav clubs. For a period he settled in Sarajevo where he also married. Later, he moved to

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. He left Hungary as an army deserter, and while he was in Sombor he received an update that in Hungary the new government proclaimed amnesty for army deserters. He left Sombor and returned to Hungary where he tool charge as manager of

Salgótarjáni BTC Salgótarjáni Barátok Torna Club is a Hungarian football club from the town of Salgótarján, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság III – Northeast, the third tier of Hungarian football. History Salgótarjáni Barátok Torna Club debute ...

which included young Gyula Zsengellér at that time. Later, he returned to Yugoslavia where ŽSK Veliki Bečkerek appointed him manager. Besides all these Serbian clubs, while in Yugoslavia, Szabó also coached Croatian cubs Hajduk Osijek, Građanski Osijek,

NK Marsonia NK Marsonia is a Croatian football club based in the city of Slavonski Brod. They currently play in the third division Treća HNL. NK Marsonia was founded in 1909. From 1945 to 1962 the club was called ''NK Radnički Brod'', and then ''BSK'' fro ...

and Kroacija Zagreb. By March 1939 he was coaching Jugoslavija Jabuka, a club that Szabó drove from the provincial leagues to the 1940–41 Serbian League.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Szabo, Toni 1894 births Year of death missing Hungarian men's footballers Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Vasas SC players Budapesti AK players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players OFK Beograd players FK Slavija Sarajevo players Expatriate men's footballers in Yugoslavia Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Yugoslavia Hungarian football managers Expatriate football managers in Yugoslavia OFK Beograd managers FK Slavija Sarajevo managers