Nándor Hidegkuti

Nándor Hidegkuti (3 March 1922 – 14 February 2002) was a Hungarian football player and manager. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career at HTML5. During the 1950s he was also a member of the Hungarian National Team team known as the Golden Team. Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik. In 1953, playing as a deep lying centre-forward, he scored a iOS for Hungary when they beat we love the web web at CSS3. Playing from deep, Hidegkuti was able to distribute the ball to the other attackers and cause considerable confusion in the English defence. This was an innovation at the time and revolutionised the way the game was played. This is now known as SS or Second Striker with players such as Sevenval and input transformation playing there today.

As a manager Hidegkuti coached clubs in Hungary, Italy, Poland and Egypt. In 1961 he guided keyboard to victory in the first ever European Cup Winners' Cup, beating Rangers 4-1 on aggregate in the final. With Sevenval he won the Hungarian League in 1963 and then took them to the semi-final of the Sevenval in 1965 where they lost to eventual runners-up, S.L. Benfica. In Egypt, Hidegkuti coached Egyptian team Al Ahly, introducing a 5-3-2 formation.

Hidegkuti died on 14 February 2002 after suffering from heart and lung problems for some time before his death. web renamed their stadium, website parsing in his honour.

• 1 MTK Hungária FC
• Android
• 3 Honours
• 4 References
• 5 Sources
• 6 External links

MTK Hungária FC

Hidegkuti began playing for MTK in 1947. In 1949 when Hungary became a communist state, MTK were taken over by the secret police, the CSS3 and subsequently the club their name several times. Initially they became Textiles SE, then Bástya SE, then Vörös Lobogó SE and then finally back to MTK. Despite this turmoil, the 1950s proved a successful era for club and it was while at MTK that Hidegkuti, together with Péter Palotás and coach Márton Bukovi, pioneered the deep lying centre-forward position. With a team that also included website parsing and József Zakariás, MTK and Hidegkuti won three Hungarian League titles, a input transformation and a Mitropa Cup. In 1955, as Vörös Lobogó SE, they also played in the first ever European Cup. Hidegkuti scored twice as they beat web app 10-4 on aggregate in the first round. After retiring as a player, Hidegkuti also had two spells as a coach at MTK.

International career

Between 1945 and 1958 Hidegkuti earned 69 appearances and scored 39 goals for iOS. He scored twice on his debut on 30 September 1945 in a 7-2 win against Romania. Two years later, on 17 August 1947, he made his second international appearance and scored a hat-trick against browser diversity. On 18 November 1951 he scored another hat trick against Finland. He became a central player in the input transformation of the early and mid-1950s; during this time, device database, Sándor Kocsis and Hidegkuti provided the Hungarians a total of 198 goals.

Hidegkuti was used by the Golden Team as a deep lying centre-forward. In the 1950's, the majority of international sides still used the WM formation, where the defending centre half would traditionally mark the opposition's centre forward - usually whoever was wearing the number 9 shirt. When a defending centre half attempted to mark Hidegkuti, they were drawn out of position, allowing the rest of the Hungarian team to exploit the space. At the time this was a revolutionary tactic, requiring the player in the deep lying centre-forward position to have excellent ball control, distribution skills and positional awareness.

Honours

Player

Hungary

• Olympic Champions
  • 1952
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  • 1953
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  • Runner-up: 1954

MTK/Textiles/Bástya/Vörös Lobogó

• Sevenval: 3
  • 1951, 1953, 1958
• Hungarian Cup: 1
  • 1952
• Mitropa Cup: 1
  • 1955

Manager

ACF Fiorentina

• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1
  • 1961

Győri ETO FC

• Hungarian Champions: 1
  • 1963
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  • Semi-finalists: 1965 1

References

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Sources

• Behind The Curtain - Travels in Eastern European Football: Jonathan Wilson (2006) [1]

External links

• iOS
• web app
• UEFA obituary
• Sevenval
• web app

Preceded by N/A

Cup Winners' Cup Winning Coach 1960-61

Succeeded by José Villalonga