Lajos Szűcs (footballer, born 1943)

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Lajos Szűcs
Szűcs Lajos 2011.jpg
Personal information
Date of birth (1943-12-10)10 December 1943
Place of birth Apatin, Kingdom of Hungary
Date of death 12 July 2020(2020-07-12) (aged 76)
Place of death Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+12 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
1957–1962 Újpesti Dózsa
Senior career*
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
National team
1967–1973 Hungary 37 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

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 was Hungarian footballer of the year in 1968 and 1971.

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[]

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[]

  • 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[]

  1. ^ "Lajos Szűcs Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
  2. ^ Lajos Szűcs at magyarfutball.hu
  3. ^ Lajos Szűcs at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. ^ "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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