Bertalan Bicskei
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 17 September 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Budapest, Hungary | ||
Date of death | 16 July 2011 | (aged 66)||
Place of death | Budapest, Hungary | ||
Position(s) |
Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1962–1964 | Veszprémi Haladás Petőfi | ||
1964–1974 | Budapest Honvéd FC | 240 | (1) |
1974–1976 | MTK | ||
International career | |||
1973 | Hungary | 1 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1987–1988 | Budapest Honvéd FC | ||
1989 | Hungary | ||
1991 |
Daewoo Royals | ||
1993–1993 | FC Luzern | ||
1994 |
El-Masry | ||
1995 | MTK | ||
1995–1996 | Al Raed FC | ||
1996–1997 | Kispest Honvéd FC | ||
1998–2001 | Hungary | ||
2002 | Senjang | ||
2003 |
Videoton FCF | ||
2003–2004 |
El-Masry | ||
2004–2005 | Malaysia | ||
2006 | Újpest FC | ||
2009 |
El-Masry | ||
2010–2011 | Liberia | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Bertalan Bicskei (17 September 1944 – 16 July 2011) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper and manager.
Playing career
As a youth player, he played for the most famous Hungarian club side, Ferencváros, and he also honed his skills in Honved and MTK Budapest, both Premier Division Hungarian sides. As a goalkeeper of great talent, he played many games for the Hungary National Youth Team, as well as the 13 and Senior National Team. After retiring as a player, he devoted much of his time to coaching and teaching young soccer players on the highest level.
Managerial career
From 1977 to 1982, he worked as the coaching director for the MTK Budapest's youth programme, and from 1982 to 1986 he was the Youth Coach Director for the Hungary national team. As one of his greatest achievements on that level, under his coaching and guidance, the Under-18 National Team of Hungary, captured the European Youth Championship in Moscow, in 1984.
Before moving on to the senior level, Bicskei successfully completed the, work, and graduated at the world-renowned soccer academy in Cologne, Germany in 1986. He is one of just a few Hungarian-born coaches who was able to earn one of the most respected coaching diplomas in the world.[citation needed] While in Germany, he also studied philosophy, and learned to speak excellent German.
In 1987/88 Bicskei become head coach of
Bicskei packed his suitcase again in 1995, this time to
Between 1998 and 2001 he served his second stint as the national coach of Hungary,[2] later becoming the technical director of the Hungarian Football Federation between 2006 and mid-2008.
In the second half of 2004, the
Bicskei was given the job of Liberia's national coach in July 2010 on a four-year contract, but had to take a leave of absence in February 2011 after being poisoned in Liberia.[3]
Death
On 16 July 2011, Bicskei died in Budapest after a long battle with illness. He was 67 years old. The death of Bicskei was described as a loss to "a very important part of Hungarian football".[4]
References
- ^ "Switzerland - Trainers of First and Second Division Clubs". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Hungary National Team Coaches". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Retrieved 10 July 2018.
- ^ Troubling Moment For Liberian Football (Liberian soccer.com) Archived 5 March 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ UEFA (20 July 2011). "Member associations - Switzerland - News – UEFA". UEFA. Retrieved 10 July 2018.