Lajos Szűcs (footballer, born 1943)

Lajos Szűcs

Personal information
Date of birth	(1943-12-10)10 December 1943
Place of birth	Apatin, Kingdom of Hungary
Date of death	12 July 2020(2020-07-12) (aged 76)
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
1957–1962	Újpesti Dózsa
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1963–1966	Dorogi Bányász	61	(7)
1966–1969	Ferencváros	102	(7)
1971–1977	Honvéd	180	(18)
1977–1980	Vasas	34	(0)
1982	Hévíz FC
International career
1967–1973	Hungary	37	(2)
Medal record Representing  Hungary Men's football 1968 Mexico City Team Competition 1972 Munich Team Competition
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lajos Szűcs (10 December 1943 – 12 July 2020) was a Hungarian football defender, who played for Dorog, Ferencváros, Budapest Honvéd FC and Vasas Izzó.

He won a gold medal in football at the 1968 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in football at the 1972 Summer Olympics,^[1] and also participated in UEFA Euro 1972 for the Hungary national football team. He was Hungarian footballer of the year in 1968 and 1971.

Personal life

He was born in Apatin, Kingdom of Hungary (today in Serbia).^[2][3] He was married to Ildikó Pécsi, one of Hungary's best known and most popular actresses who also served as a Socialist member of the Hungarian Parliament from 1994 to 1998. He died on 12 July 2020 in Budapest at the age of 76.^[4]

Sources

• Ki kicsoda a magyar sportéletben?, III. kötet (S–Z). Szekszárd, Babits Kiadó, 1995, 181. o., ISBN 963-495-014-0 (in Hungarian)
• Rejtő László–Lukács László–Szepesi György: Felejthetetlen 90 percek (Sportkiadó, 1977) ISBN 963-253-501-4 (in Hungarian)
• Rózsaligeti László: Magyar olimpiai lexikon. Budapest: Datus. 2000. ISBN 963-00-5577-5 (in Hungarian)
• Bocsák Miklós: Hogyan élnek olimpiai bajnokaink? (Budapest, 1998) (in Hungarian)

References

1. "Lajos Szűcs Biography and Statistics". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 October 2009.
2. Lajos Szűcs at magyarfutball.hu
3. Lajos Szűcs at National-Football-Teams.com
4. "Gyászol a Fradi család, elhunyt Szűcs Lajos" [The Ferencváros family mourns, Lajos Szűcs died]. Ferencvárosi TC (in Hungarian). 12 July 2020. Retrieved 12 July 2020.