Sándor Kocsis

Sándor Kocsis was a Football or Hungarian, born the September 23rd 1929 with Budapest and dead the July 22nd 1979, which evolved/moved at the station of attacker.

Biography

At a peak of the team of Hungary of the Years 1950, the best striker of the Mondial 1954 with 11 goals remains dumb only finally. Paradoxically, the German are essential 3-2, whereas with the first turn the Hungarians had dynamited them 8-3. Kocsis begins the test on the hubcaps with a triplet against the South Korea (9-0) then a quadruplet vis-a-vis the Germany. At final, only Just Fountain, with two units more but also an additional match in 1958, will place the bar higher.

After having begun under the shirt from Ferencváros to which there remained faithful up to 23 years, Kocsis played Kijpest Honvéd, like made Ferenc Puskás, József Bozsik and Zoltán Czibor. Olympic champion in Finland in 1952, better striker of the Hungarian championship with 3 recoveries (1951 (30), 1952 (36) and 1954 (33)), it is Hungarian forwarding which ridicules the England (6-3) with Wembley in 1953. Following the Russian invasion of 1956, Kocsis is exiled in Suisse. It carries out only one season with the Young Boys Bern before joining FC Barcelona. With Luís Suárez, László Kubala and Zoltán Czibor, Kocsis arrives, goal after goal, to compete with large the Real Madrid of Alfredo Di Stefano and Ferenc Puskás. When it decides to put a term at its career in 1966, Kocsis gained two Liga (1959 and 1960), two Coupes of the King (1959 and 1963), a UEFA Cup (1960), four championships of Hungary (1949 with Ferencváros; 1952,1954 and 1955 with Honvéd), and be finalist of the Hungarian cut in 1955. It counts 75 goals in 68 selections with Hungary (with which it also gained the Coupe of Dr. Gero in 1953). In its native land, he played 253 matches of the 1st division, for 251 goals. Condemned by a terminal illness, Kocsis commits suicide in 1979.

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