István Sallói
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | István Sallói | ||
Date of birth | 26 September 1966 | ||
Place of birth | Oroszlány, Hungary | ||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Videoton FC | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1985–1989 | Videoton FC | 54 | (4) |
1989–1990 | Győri ETO FC | 35 | (8) |
1990–1993 | Videoton FC | 77 | (39) |
1993–1994 | Budapest Honvéd FC | 22 | (9) |
1994–1999 | Beitar Jerusalem F.C. | 116 | (59) |
1999–2000 | Maccabi Herzliya | 47 | (12) |
National team | |||
1992-1995 | Hungary | 13 | (1) |
Teams managed | |||
2002-2004 | |||
2004-2005 | Újpest FC | ||
2005-2007 | Diósgyőri VTK | ||
2007-2009 | Újpest FC | ||
2011-2015 | Kecskeméti TE | ||
2015 | |||
2018-2021 | Zalaegerszegi TE | ||
2021 | MOL Fehérvár FC | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
István Sallói (born 26 September 1966 in Oroszlány) is a former Hungarian football player who came from a real football family. His grandfather played lower divisions and became a referee later. His father played in the Hungarian first league at Tatabanya FC.
Playing career[]
Started his career at Videoton FC young team (1981) and became professional player 1986. Played for ETO FC GYOR (1988–1989) as loan player meanwhile he served his army duty at Győr. Returned to Videoton and became the captain and the leader in his home team. His best year was 1992-93 when he was invited to the national team and voted as the Player of the Year and finished 2nd best scorer. He signed for Honved with the aim to be champion and get an offer from abroad. End of the year of 1994 he accepted the offer from Beitar Jerusalem.
At Beitar Jerusalem F.C. he was known as "Stefan" as the people there had a lot of difficulty in pronouncing the name "István". Played five beautiful years for Beitar and became one of the most favorite foreign player ever played for them. Although he played behind the striker role, he became the best scorer in Beitar in those years and still he is the best Israeli scorer in European competitions with 12 goals. Finished his career at Herzelya in 2000, playing for them 18 months.
Sporting director career[]
After his football career, he worked as the technical director of the National Team for Hungarian Football Federation. He left the federation and became the club manager (CEO) of SIÓFOK FC 2002-2004 . They promoted to first league in the first year and finished 5th position in top league next season. Although the successful seasons, the club got into financial crisis when the owner couldn't finances the club anymore. Sallói made a new business plan, releasing the expensive players and build a young team with a young coach, Aurel Csertoi. They finished the first part of the league in first place causing big surprise for everyone. Seeing his success with small club, Újpest FC, one of the biggest and most popular team in Hungary, offered him the CEO position in winter break and he took the job. Újpest FC started the second part of the league in 8th position without head coach who resigned in winter break. Sallói again, give the job to a young coach, Geza Meszoly who made excellent job with his team, winning the second part of the league and finished the 2nd place in the table at the end of the season. In 2005, when new owner arrived to the club, Sallói resigned. He moved to Diósgyőri VTK to a very popular team which was year by year in financial crisis. For that time Sallói was called in Hungary 'man who can manage the financial crisis'. He did the job again, stabilized the club and madeDiósgyőri VTK a stable mid table team. End of 2007, the new owner of Ujpest FC called him back to Újpest FC as a sport director. His task was to build a team who can win the league. Újpest FC finished in 2nd place after a year and made over 1 million euros profit on transfer fees. End of 2009, he joined to Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club as an Eastern Europe scout. 2011 Sallói returned to Hungarian football and took a job in Kecskeméti TE as sport director until 2015. From July 2015 after Kecskemeti TE lost the licence for the Hungarian professional leagues, he signed for Dunaujvaros PASE as the sport director. In 2018 he became the sport director of the second league club Zalaegerszegi TE In the first season the team promoted to the first league after 7 years. In 2021 he moved and take the sporting director position of MOL Fehérvár FC
Personal[]
Sallói is the father of Dániel Sallói, who currently plays football at Sporting Kansas City.[1]
Honours[]
Player[]
Beitar Jerusalem
- Israeli Championship: 1996–97, 1997–98
- Toto Cup Al: 1997–98
Individual
- Hungarian Player of the Year: 1993
Manager[]
Siófok
- NB II: 2001–02
Újpest FC
- NB I: Runner Up 2003-2004, 2008-2009
Kecskemét
Zalaegerszeg
- NB II: 2018–19
Individual
- Hungarian Club Manager of the Year: 2004
References[]
- ^ Kovzan, Sam (13 January 2016). "Sporting KC signs Daniel Salloi as Homegrown Player". Sporting Kansas City. Retrieved 15 January 2020.
- Medved.M
- Beitar Jerusalem
- Beitar Jerusalem
- cantab.net at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 January 2009)
- István Sallói at FootballDatabase.eu
- István Sallói at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Hungarian footballers
- Hungarian people of German descent
- Fehérvár FC players
- Budapest Honvéd FC players
- Beitar Jerusalem F.C. players
- Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players
- Expatriate footballers in Israel
- Hungary international footballers
- Association football forwards
- Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Israel
- Győri ETO FC players