Geza Šifliš

Geza Šifliš

Šifliš in 1928
Personal information
Date of birth	(1907-02-25)25 February 1907
Place of birth	Ókeresztúr, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	18 November 1948(1948-11-18) (aged 41)
Place of death	Baja, Hungary
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1927–1929	SAND Subotica
1929–1931	Ferencváros
1937–1938	Újpest
International career
1927–1928	Kingdom of SCS	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Geza Šifliš (Serbian Cyrillic: Геза Шифлиш, Hungarian: Siflis Géza; 25 February 1907 – 18 November 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper of Hungarian ethnicity. He was part of Yugoslavia's team at the 1928 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Nicknamed Gouliver^[2] for his height^[3] and strength, he played in top league clubs in Yugoslavia and Hungary.^[4]

Career

Born in Ókeresztúr,^[4] Austria-Hungary (nowadays Srpski Krstur, Serbia), he first appeared playing for SAND Subotica^[5] in the 1927 Yugoslav Football Championship.^[4] Then in 1929 he moved to Hungary where he first played with Ferencváros between 1929 and 1931, and then with Újpest between 1931 and 1933.^[4]

He played five matches for the Yugoslavia national team, one of them at the 1928 Summer Olympics^[6] against Portugal.^[7] He played all 5 national team matches while playing with SAND.^[8]

He was an ethnic Hungarian, and after joining Hungarian side Ferencváros, he stayed in Hungary. In 1936, he married Hungarian swimmer Magda Szász. He died in Baja, Hungary on 18 November 1948.^[4]

References

1. "Geza Šifliš". Olympedia. Retrieved 17 September 2021.
2. Geza Šifliš at EU-Football.info
3. Siflis Géza at tempofradi.hu (in Hungarian)
4. Geza Šifliš at Reprezentacija.rs (in Serbian)
5. Match report at tempofradi.hu
6. Geza Šifliš Archived 6 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine at sports-reference.com
7. Geza Šifliš at FIFA.com
8. Geza Šifliš at National-Football-Teams.com