Yozhef Betsa
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's football | ||
Representing  Soviet Union | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
.svg.png){kind=icon} | 1956 Melbourne | Team |
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yozhef Yozhefovich Betsa | ||
| Date of birth | 6 November 1929 | ||
| Place of birth | Mukačevo, Czechoslovakia | ||
| Date of death | 24 February 2011 (aged 81) | ||
| Place of death | Mukachevo, Ukraine | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Mukachevo Tobacco Factory | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1946 | Bilshovyk Mukacheve | ||
| 1947–1949 | Spartak Uzhhorod | ||
| 1950–1951 | GDO Stanislav | ||
| 1951–1953 | Spartak Stanislav | ||
| 1953–1954 | ODO Lviv | 22 | (0) |
| 1954–1958 | CDSA / CSK MO Moscow | 35 | (2) |
| International career | |||
| 1955–1956 | USSR | 2 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1959–1961 | Lenin Military Athletic Institute | ||
| 1961 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (assistant) | ||
| 1963 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (assistant) | ||
| 1964–1967 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don | ||
| 1968 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (assistant) | ||
| 1969–1970 | SKA Lviv | ||
| 1971–1972 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don | ||
| 1972–1973 | ZGV (East Germany) | ||
| 1975 | FC SKA Rostov-on-Don | ||
| 1976–1978 | FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia | ||
| 1979–1981 | FC Ararat Yerevan | ||
| 1982 | FC Kairat | ||
| 1985 | SKA Odesa | ||
| 1989 | FC Torpedo Zaporizhia | ||
| 1989–1990 | SKA Rostov-on-Don | ||
| 1991 | Pryladyst Mukacheve (director) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Yozhef Yozhefovich Betsa (Hungarian: József Beca, Ukrainian: Йожеф Йожефович Беца, Russian: Иосиф Иосифович Беца; 6 November 1929 – 24 February 2011) was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player and coach.
Betsa was an ethnic Magyar. Russian variation of his name had both variants, the Ukrainian transliteration of Hungarian as well as the standard Russian adaptation for Yozhef as Iosif.[1] In December 2006, he was denied the invitation to accept a medal from the President of the Union of Russian football veterans, Alexander Bagratovich Mirzoyan, with the explanation that he had to reside in the Russian Federation. He was born and died in Mukacheve.
Honours
- Soviet Cup winner: 1955.
- Olympic champion: 1956.[2]
International career
Yozhef Betsa capped only two games for the Soviet Union national football team. With one that he played at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where the Soviet Union played with its senior (first) team.
Betsa made his debut for USSR on 23 October 1955 in a friendly against France.
See also
Other famous Soviet Magyar footballers:
References
- ↑ Йожеф БЕЦА. www.rusteam.permian.ru
- ↑ "Yozhef Betsa". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 December 2021.
External links
- Profile (in Russian)
- Yozhef Betsa's obituary (in Russian)
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- 1929 births
- 2011 deaths
- Footballers from Mukachevo
- Ukrainian people of Hungarian descent
- Soviet men's footballers
- Soviet Union men's international footballers
- Soviet football managers
- Ukrainian men's footballers
- Ukrainian football managers
- PFC CSKA Moscow players
- SKA Lviv players
- FC Spartak Ivano-Frankivsk players
- FC Hoverla Uzhhorod players
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- SKA Lviv managers
- FC Metalurh Zaporizhzhia managers
- FC Ararat Yerevan managers
- FC Kairat managers
- SC Odesa managers
- FC Torpedo Zaporizhzhia managers
- Olympic footballers for the Soviet Union
- Footballers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in football
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Soviet people of Hungarian descent
- Men's association football midfielders
- Sportspeople of Hungarian descent
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen