Gyula Mándi

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Gyula Mándi
Personal information
Date of birth (1899-07-14)14 July 1899
Place of birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 26 November 1969(1969-11-26) (aged 70)
Place of death Budapest, Hungarian PR
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1919–29
MTK
 324 (12)
1929–37
Hungária FC
International career
1921–1934 Hungary 32 (0)
Managerial career
1950–1956 Hungary
1957–1958
America FC (RJ)
1959–1963 Israel
1964 Israel
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Israel (as manager)
AFC Asian Cup
Runner-up 1960
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gyula Mándi, also referred to as Mándi Gyula or Julius Mandel (14 July 1899 – 26 November 1969) was a Hungarian Olympic national team (for whom he played 32 matches) and club

fullback/[1][2][3] He was also a manager of club and national teams.[4] He was Jewish.[5][6][4]

Playing career

Club

Mándi was born in Budapest, Hungary.[4] As a footballer, he was dubbed "the artist of positioning, and world champion of timing."[7] Playing club football, he won 10 league titles.[1]

He was part of the greatest era of

Jenő Kálmár, Imre Schlosser, Iuliu Baratky and Ferenc Sas
. Between 1919 and 1925 he won seven consecutive championships with MTK.

The professionalisation of the game in Hungary weakened MTK's absolute dominance, but they remained amongst the leading sides. Until the end of his career in 1937, he could celebrate three more championships. Between 1923 and 1933, he also won cups with the club; altogether, Mándi made 325 appearances for MTK.

International

1924 Maygar team; Károly Fogl, Zoltán Opata, Ferenc Hirzer, Rudolf Jeny, József Eisenhoffer, Béla Guttmann, Gyula Mándi, Gábor Obitz, József Braun, György Orth, János Biri, and Gyula Kiss

. Mándi's career with the Hungary national team commenced in June 1921 with a match against Germany. Soon he featured regularly in the side, forming the defense together with Károly Fogl.[4] He won 32 international caps.[1]

Hungary participated in the football tournament of the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris.[10] Hungary's hopes rose after a decisive first round win over Poland. However, a sensational 0–3 defeat at the hands of Egypt in the second stage ended the aspirations of the Magyars. Mándi played in both matches.[11]

A knee injury prevented Mándi from continuing his international career until 1929, when he again featured regularly until 1932, including five matches for the Central European International Cup. After missing out on further nominations for a two years, he returned once more to the Hungarian side for a World Cup qualifier against Bulgaria in 1934. Altogether he played 32 times for his country.[7][9]

Nazi occupation

Mandi survived

Nazi occupation of Poland in World War II with the assistance of his Christian brother-in-law, György Szomolányi.[1] Szomolányi was the managing director of a paper mill that had been converted to produce wooden stocks for rifles to support the Nazi war effort.[1] He was able to employ whomever he wished.[1]

In 1942 he saved Mándi from a Jewish labor detail by giving Mándi papers to work in his factory.[1] Two years later, however, Mándi couldn’t avoid labor service.[1] He was sent on a train bound for Ukraine, but wrote a postcard to Szomolányi and threw it from the train.[1] Someone found it and mailed it, but when it arrived it had been torn, and all that could be read was the word ‘KELPUSZTA’.[1] Szomolányi realised this must be Ekelpuszta, where a transit camp had been set up.[1] He donned his World War I officer’s uniform, strode into the camp, and demanded that he be given five men for an essential task.[1] Impressed, the guards told him to take his pick.[1] Szomolányi selected Mándi and four others.[1]

Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Mándi became a coach and was the manager of the

Mighty Magyars.[12][4][13] His training regimen for the team was unusual for the time, as he encouraged the men to practice athletics and mountaineering, and to train with the ball and in match situations.[4][13]

From 1956 to 1958 he coached Brazil.[4]

In mid-August 1957 Mándi became coach of

Rio-São Paulo Tournament
of 1958 was considered unsatisfactory and ended at the end of April 1958.

Between 1959 and 1964, Mandi had two spells as coach of Israel, with whom he reached the final of the 1960 Asian Cup.[8][15][6][4]

Honours

MTK Hungária FC

  • Hungarian League
    (10): 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1936, 1937
  • Hungarian Cup: 1923, 1925, 1932; runner-up 1930, 1935[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n "How Hungary's stars left their football mark with Olympic success | Jonathan Wilson". the Guardian. 15 August 2019.
  2. ^ Gyula Mándi at National-Football-Teams.com
  3. ^ Gyula Mándi at WorldFootball.net
  4. ^ a b c d e f g h Jewish Sports Legends; The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
  5. ISBN 9781785902642
    – via Google Books.
  6. ^
    ISBN 9783895085956
    – via Google Books.
  7. ^
    ISBN 9780880332989
    – via Google Books.
  8. ^
    ISBN 9781785902642
    – via Google Books.
  9. ^ a b The Names Heard Long Ago; How the Golden Age of Hungarian Soccer Shaped the Modern Game
  10. ^ "Gyula Mándi". Olympedia. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
  11. ^ "Gyula MANDI - Olympic Football | Hungary". International Olympic Committee. 13 June 2016.
  12. ISBN 9780571271276
    – via Google Books.
  13. ^
    ISBN 9780571271276
    .
  14. ISBN 9781409109044
    – via Google Books.
  15. ISBN 9780195025859
    – via Google Books.
  16. ^ Strack-Zimmermann, Benjamin. "Gyula Mándi". www.national-football-teams.com.

Sources

External links
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