Gyula Bíró
Personal information
Full name Gyula Bíró
Date of birth (1890-05-10)10 May 1890
Place of birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 14 June 1951(1951-06-14) (aged 61)[1]
Place of death Mexico City, Mexico
Position(s) Midfielder, forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1905–1916 MTK 135 (17)
International career
1906–1916 Hungary 36 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Gyula Bíró (25 April 1890 – 14 June 1951) was a Hungarian Olympic football player and manager of Jewish heritage.[2][3][4]

Playing career

Club career

Bíró spent his career as player playing for MTK Hungária FC, where he made first team debut in 1905 as the age of 15 as midfielder. Later he also played as forward. He retired from football as player at the age of 26 after playing 135 games in the Hungarian League and scoring 17 goals.

International career

As part of Hungary, Bíró completed at 1912 Olympics.[5][6]

Coaching career

He started his coaching career with 1. FC Nürnberg in 1920, before moving to Poland in 1923, where he coached Hasmonea Lwów and later the Olympic national team in 1924. From June 1924 until November 1925, he was a coach of Warta Poznań. He later returned to Germany as coach of FC Saarbrücken during the 1926–27 season.

Bíró coached FC Baia Mare in Romania in 1930s, before moving to the Spanish squad Atlético Marte. He left Europe before the start of World War II and went to Mexico. He worked as an engineer too in the places where he lived, and he died at the age of 71 in Mexico.

See also

References

  1. ↑ Gyula Bíró at Olympedia
  2. ↑ "Спорт - Центральный Еврейский Ресурс. Сайт русскоязычных евреев всего мира. Еврейские новости. Еврейские фамилии". Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2009.
  3. ↑ Handler, Andrew (12 September 1985). From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary. East European Monographs. ISBN 9780880330855 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ Steen, Rob; Novick, Jed; Richards, Huw (4 July 2013). The Cambridge Companion to Football. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781107014848 – via Google Books.
  5. ↑ "Gyula Bíró". Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
  6. ↑ "FIFA Player Statistics: Gyula BIRO". FIFA. Archived from the original on 16 August 2012. Retrieved 28 September 2012.
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