István Tóth (footballer)
Personal information | |||
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Full name | István Tóth-Potya | ||
Date of birth | (1891-07-28)28 July 1891 | ||
Place of birth | Budapest, Austria-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 6 February 1945(1945-02-06) (aged 53) | ||
Place of death | Budapest, Hungary | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
Ferencváros | |||
International career | |||
1909–1928 | Hungary | 19 | (8) |
Managerial career | |||
1926–1930 | Ferencváros | ||
1930–1931 | Triestina | ||
1931–1932 | Internazionale | ||
1932–1934 | Újpest | ||
1934–1936 | Triestina | ||
1938–1939 | Triestina | ||
1943 | Ferencváros[1] | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
István Tóth-Potya (28 July 1891 – 6 February 1945) was a Hungarian amateur footballer who played as a forward.
He was a member of the Hungarian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was an unused reserve player for the duration of the games and did not play a match in the 1912 football tournament.[2]
For the Hungary national team he played 19 games and scored 8 goals. He later had a coaching career, with alternating spells managing teams in Hungary and Italy.
Death
Returning from Italy and serving as a reserve officer in the Hungarian army, during World War II he became a member of the Hungarian anti-fascist resistance following Hungary's invasion by Germany, in association with former teammate Geza Kertesz[3] helping several hundred people escape from Nazi custody and death.[4] He and Kertesz were arrested by the German Gestapo in late 1944 and executed in February 1945 in Budapest by Hitler's Hungarian allies, Szálasi's Arrow Cross henchmen.[3]
His body and that of Kertesz were reburied after the war in April 1946 in Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest.[3]
References
- ^ "Hungarian Players and Coaches in Italy". Rsssf.com.
- ^ "István Tóth". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ a b c [1] Archived 15 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine news archive in Hungarian, from Four Four Two, Toth-Potya, Brull, Kertesz - Soccer victims of the Holocaust, accessed 17 May 2021.
- ^ "AS Roma official website Remembering Geza Kertesz, Roma coach and war hero". Retrieved 14 March 2021.