Lajos Szűcs (footballer, born 1943)
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| Date of birth | 10 December 1943 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Apatin, Kingdom of Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 12 July 2020 (aged 76) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Budapest, Hungary | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
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| 1957–1962 | Újpesti Dózsa | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1963–1966 | Dorogi Bányász | 61 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1966–1969 | Ferencváros | 102 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1977 | Honvéd | 180 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1980 | Vasas | 34 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Hévíz FC | ||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1967–1973 | Hungary | 37 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lajos Szűcs (10 December 1943 – 12 July 2020) was a Hungarian football defender, who played for Dorog, Ferencváros, Budapest Honvéd FC 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,[1] and also participated in UEFA Euro 1972 for the Hungary national football team. He was Hungarian footballer of the year in 1968 and 1971.
Personal life
[edit]He was born in Apatin, Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia).[2][3] He was married to Ildikó Pécsi, 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 Budapest at the age of 76.[4]
Sources
[edit]- Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, III. kötet (S–Z). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, 181. o., ISBN 963-495-014-0 (in Hungarian)
- Rejtő László–Lukács László–Szepesi György: Felejthetetlen 90 percek (Sportkiadó, 1977) ISBN 963-253-501-4 (in Hungarian)
- Rózsaligeti László: Magyar olimpiai lexikon. Budapest: Datus. 2000. ISBN 963-00-5577-5 (in Hungarian)
- Bocsák Miklós: Hogyan élnek olimpiai bajnokaink? (Budapest, 1998) (in Hungarian)
References
[edit]- ^ "Lajos Szűcs Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
- ^ Lajos Szűcs at magyarfutball.hu
- ^ Lajos Szűcs at National-Football-Teams.com
- ^ "Gyászol a Fradi család, elhunyt Szűcs Lajos" [The Ferencváros family mourns, Lajos Szűcs died]. Ferencvárosi TC (in Hungarian). 12 July 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020.
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