The biggest football player

The biggest football player

Ferenc Puskás

His nickname:Öcsi

The greatest player

He was a Hungarian a football player  and a Manager ,widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time.

The Galopping Major

He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and 514 goals in 529 matches in the Hungarian  and Spanish leagues

He was successful

 He became Olympic champion in 1952 He was a World Cup finalist in 1954. He won three European Cups (1959, 1960,

1966), 10 national championships 8 top individual scoring honorsHe was the top goal scorer in EuropeHe was recognized as a top scorer of the

20th century

The Great Hungarian Team

He was both a prominent member and captain of the Hungarian national team, known as the Mighty Magyars.

Early life

He was born in Budapest 1 April 1927 He began his career as a junior with Kispest

FC, where his father, who had previously played for the club, was a coach.

Together with Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik, and Nándor Hidegkuti , he formed the nucleus of the Golden Team that was to remain unbeaten for 32 consecutive games

The biggest hit

They defeated England twice, first with a 6-3 win at Wembley Stadium and then 7-1 in Budapest. Puskás scored two goals in each game against England.

Real Madrid

When the Hungarian Revolution broke out the Football team was in Spain and because of the ambiguous situation in Hungary they went on a South-American tour.

After refusing to return to Hungary he started to play for Real Madrid

He became the top goal scorer four times in Spain.

Spanish succes

After playing football

After retiring as a player, Puskás became a coach and managed teams in Europe, North America, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

In 1971 he guided  Greek team to the European Cup final, the only time a Greek club has reached a European final to date.

The coach

1967-Hercules Alicante, Spain 1967– San Francisco Gales, USA 1968– Vancouver Royals Canada 1970-1974 – Panathinaikósz, Görögország 1974–1975 – FCL Murcia, Spanyolország 1975–1976 – Colo-Colo, Chile 1976–1977 – a Szaúd-arábiai labdarúgó-válogatott edzője, 

Szaúd-Arábia 1978–1979 – AÉK, Görögország 1979–1984 – Al Masri, Egyiptom 1985–1986 – Sol de América, Paraguay 1986 –Cerro Porteno, Paraguay 1990-1991– South Melbourne Hellas, Australia

Time goes by

Last years

Puskás was diagnosed with Alzheimer’ disease  in 2000.

 He was admitted to a Budapest hospital in September 2006] and died on 17 November 2006.

His funeral

He was buried under the dome of the St Stephen’s Basilica in Budapest on 9 December 2006.

Puskás Stadium

The memory of Puskás

Then and now