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Nándor Hidegkuti
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Hungarian football player and manager (1922–2002)
Key facts
- 1966
- FC Tatabánya
- 1972
- Stal Rzeszów
- 1973
- Egri Dózsa
- Date of birth
- ( 1922-03-03 ) 3 March 1922
- Place of birth
- Budapest , Hungary
- Date of death
- 14 February 2002 (2002-02-14) (aged 79)
- Place of death
- Budapest, Hungary
- Height
- 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Positions
- Forward attacking midfielder
- Years
- Team
- 1942 1945
- Elektromos FC
- 1945 1946
- Herminamezei AC
- 1946 1958
- MTK Hungária
- 1945 1958
- Hungary
- 1959 1960
- MTK Hungária FC
- 1960 1962
- ACF Fiorentina
- 1962 1963
- A.C. Mantova
- 1963 1965
- Győri ETO FC
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nándor
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Hungary
- Place of birth
- Budapest
- Place of death
- Budapest
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Hungarian
- Participant in
- 1952 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Hungary men's national football team
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Hungary
- Mass
- 73
- Image
- Hidegkuti 1953 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 176
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- date of birth
- 1922-03-03
- date of death
- 2002-02-14
- Commons category
- Nándor Hidegkuti
- end of work period
- 1958-00-00
- start of work period
- 1942-00-00
- name in native language
- Hidegkuti Nándor
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Nándor Hidegkuti (3 March 1922 – 14 February 2002) was a Hungarian football player and manager. He played as a forward or attacking midfielder and spent the majority of his playing career at MTK Hungária FC. During the 1950s he was also a key member of the Hungary national team known as the Golden Team. Other members of the team included Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis and József Bozsik. In 1953, playing as a deep-lying centre-forward, a position which has retroactively been compared to the modern false 9 role, he scored a hat-trick for Hungary when they beat England 6–3 at Wembley Stadium. Playing from deep, Hidegkuti was able to distribute the ball to the other attackers and cause considerable confusion to defences. This was an innovation at the time and revolutionised the way the game was played.
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