Ferenc Plattkó
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ferenc Plattkó | ||
Date of birth | 2 December 1898 | ||
Place of birth | Budapest, Austria-Hungary | ||
Date of death | 2 September 1983 | (aged 84)||
Place of death |
Santiago, Chile | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1917–1920 | Vasas | 0 | (0) |
1920 | Wiener AF | 7 | (0) |
1921–1922 |
KAFK | 0 | (0) |
1922–1923 |
MTK Hungária | 17 | (0) |
1923–1930 | Barcelona | 189 | (0) |
1930 | Ripensia Timișoara | 0 | (0) |
1932–1933 | Recreativo de Huelva | 8 | (0) |
1933 | Mulhouse | ||
International career | |||
1917–1923 | Hungary | 6 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1932 | Basel (assistant) | ||
1932–1933 | Mulhouse | ||
1933–1934 | Roubaix | ||
1934–1935 | Barcelona | ||
1935 | Académico do Porto | ||
1936 | USA Olympic | ||
1936–1937 |
Venus București | ||
1937 |
Dacia Unirea Brăila | ||
1937 | Gloria CFR Galați | ||
1938 |
Cracovia[1] | ||
1938–1939 |
Celta Vigo | ||
1939–1940 | Colo-Colo | ||
1940 | River Plate | ||
1941 | Colo-Colo | ||
1941–1945 | Chile | ||
1942 | Magallanes | ||
1942–1943 | Santiago Wanderers | ||
1943–1944 | River Plate (techn. director) | ||
1949 | Boca Juniors | ||
1950 | Chile | ||
1953 | Colo-Colo | ||
1953 | Chile | ||
1955–1956 | Barcelona | ||
1965 | San Luis | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ferenc Plattkó (born in
MTK Hungária FC, FC Barcelona, and Recreativo de Huelva
.
He subsequently worked as a coach in Europe and South America, most notably with
Sagibarba. His bravery as a goalkeeper was immortalized by Rafael Alberti in the poem Oda A Platko. After retiring as a player he returned to the club as a coach on two occasions (1934–35, 1955–56). Plattkó played 6 matches for the Hungarian national team between 1917 and 1923.[3]
Career
Early career
Platko began his career as a goalkeeper in his hometown of
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.[5] In 1922 MTK played two friendlies against FC Barcelona. Both games finished as 0–0 draws and FC Barcelona
, impressed with Platko offered him a contract.
Barcelona
Platko replaced the legendary
Luis Suárez, won 10 consecutive La Liga games in a row. The record remained unbeaten until 2005. Despite this run CF Barcelona only managed to finish second in La Liga behind Atlético Bilbao
and Platko was replaced the following season.
South America
During the two decades away from
Chilean Championionship
.
For the season 1955/56 he returned to FC Barcelona with which he became runner up in the league one point behind
Frank Rijkard in the 2005/06 season. His downfall was a 1–3 defeat on 20 May in the cup quarterfinals against local rivals Español. The club concluded, the relationship between the team and Plattkó was broken, and replaced him for the return match, which ended 4-4, with the club legend Josep Samitier
.
The next years Plattkó spent in Brazil as talent scout and player observer. later he returned to Chile where in 1965 he took on a last coaching assignment when he took on lowly
CD San Luis de Quillota from the region of Valparaíso
, with which he ended third from the bottom, which however was one up from the previous season.
Personal life
The Platko Brothers
Franz Platko also had two brothers,
Celta de Vigo (1944–46), Girona FC (1948–49) and Sporting de Gijón
.
Honours
Player
- Barcelona
- La Liga (1): 1928–29
- Copa del Rey (3): 1925, 1926, 1928
- Catalan Champions (6): 1923–24, 1924–25, 1925–26, 1926–27, 1927–28, 1929–30
Manager
- Barcelona
- Catalan Champions (1): 1934–35
- Venus București
- 1936–37
- Colo-Colo
- Primera División (3): 1939, 1941, 1953
References
- ^ "Ferenc Plattkó – WikiPasy.pl - Encyklopedia KS Cracovia". 29 December 2021.
- ^ Murió el legendario Platko on El Mundo Deportivo
- ^ Ferenc Plattkó at EU-Football.info
- ^ History section Archived 11 June 2016 at the Wayback Machine at FK Hajduk Kula official website, 2-2-2012 (in Serbian)
- ^ Ferenc Platko biography at FK Hajduk Kula official website, 2-2-2012 (in Serbian)
- ^ Omorós, Andrés (28 November 2011). "Platko: El oso rubio de Hungaría" (in Spanish). ABC. p. 66.
Literature
- Tamás Dénes, Mihály Sándor, Éva B. Bába: A magyar labdarúgás története I.: Amatorök és álamatorök (1897–1926), Campus Kiadó (Debreceni Campus Nonprofit Közhasznú Kft.), Debrecen (HU), 2014. ISBN 978-963-9822-11-5
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ferenc Plattkó.
- Ferenc Plattkó at National-Football-Teams.com
- Ferenc Plattkó at BDFutbol
- La Liga players stats
- Franz Platko (1934-35 and 1955-56), FC Barcelona (per 2020-08-20)
- Plattkó Ferenc, Partidos de la Roja: Estadísticas, datos e información sobre la selección chilena de fútbol y todos sus partidos clase A (1910-2023). La Roja matches: Statistics, data and information about the Chile national football team and all its class A matches (1910-2023).(per 2020-08-20)
- Plattkó Ferenc y Waldo Sanhueza Partidos de la Roja: Estadísticas, datos e información sobre la selección chilena de fútbol y todos sus partidos clase A (1910-2023). La Roja matches: Statistics, data and information about the Chilean national football team and all its class A matches (1910-2023). (per 2020-08-20)