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The native form of this personal name is Pusk\u00e1s Ferenc. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s

Pusk\u00e1s playing for Real Madrid

Personal information

Full name

\nFerenc Pusk\u00e1s

Birth name

\nFerenc Purczeld^[1]

Date of birth

\n1 April 1927

Place of birth

\nBudapest, Kingdom of Hungary

Date of death

\n17 November 2006 (aged 79)

Place of death

\nBudapest, Hungary

Height

\n1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)

Position(s)

\nForward, attacking midfielder

Youth career

1940\u20131943

\nKispest Honv\u00e9d

Senior career\"

Years

\nTeam

\nApps

\n(Gls)

1943\u20131956

\nBudapest Honv\u00e9d^[i]

\n350

\n(358)

1958\u20131966

\nReal Madrid

\n180

\n(156)

Total

\n530

\n(514)

International career

1945\u20131956

\nHungary

\n85

\n(84)

1961\u20131962

\nSpain

\n4

\n(0)

1963

\nCastile

\n1

\n(2)

Managerial career

1966\u20131967

\nH\u00e9rcules

1967

\nSan Francisco Golden Gate Gales

1968

1968\u20131969

1970\u20131974

1974\u20131975

1975\u20131976

1976\u20131977

1978\u20131979

1979\u20131982

1985\u20131986

\nSol de Am\u00e9rica

1986\u20131989

\nCerro Porte\u00f1o

1989\u20131992

\nSouth Melbourne

1993

\nHungary

Medal record

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Men's football\n
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Representing $\"\"$ Hungary\n
Olympic Games\n
$\"Gold$	1952 Helsinki	\n
FIFA World Cup\n
$\"Silver$	1954 Switzerland	\n
Central European International Cup\n
$\"Gold$	1948\u201353 Europe	\n
$\"Silver$	1955\u201360 Europe	\n

\n\"Club domestic league appearances and goals

\n\n

Hungary professional footballer\n

Eponyms and public art\n

Related\n

Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s (Hungarian pronunciation: [\u02c8f\u025br\u025bnt\u0361s \u02c8pu\u0283ka\u02d0\u0283], UK: /\u02ccf\u025br\u025bnts \u02c8p\u028a\u0283k\u0259\u0283, \u02c8p\u028a\u0283k\u00e6\u0283/ FERR-ents PUUSH-k\u0259sh, PUUSH-kash;^[2]^[3]^[4] n\u00e9 Purczeld;^[1] 1 April 1927 \u2013 17 November 2006) was a Hungarian footballer and manager, widely regarded as one of the greatest players of all time and the sport's first international superstar.^[5] A forward and an attacking midfielder, he scored 84 goals in 85 international matches for Hungary and later played four international matches for Spain as well. He became an Olympic champion in 1952 and led his nation to the final of the 1954 World Cup. He won three European Cups (1959, 1960, 1966), ten national championships (five Hungarian and five Spanish Primera Divisi\u00f3n) and eight top individual scoring honors. Known as the \"Galloping Major\",^[6] in 1995, he was recognized as the greatest top division scorer of the 20th century by the IFFHS.^[7]^[8]^[9] Scoring 802 goals in 792 official games during his career, he is the seventh top goal scorer of all time by the RSSSF.^[10]\n

He was the son of former footballer Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s Senior. Pusk\u00e1s started his career in Hungary playing for Kispest and Budapest Honv\u00e9d. He was the top scorer in the Hungarian League on four occasions and in 1948 he was the top goal scorer in Europe. During the 1950s, he was both a prominent member and captain of the Hungary national team, known as the Mighty Magyars. After the Hungarian Revolution, Pusk\u00e1s served a two year ban from UEFA. Despite failing to sign for Ethnikos Piraeus in 1957 under pressure from rival clubs,^[11] in 1958, he emigrated to Spain where he successfully signed for Real Madrid at the age of 31. While playing with the club, Pusk\u00e1s won four Pichichis and scored seven goals in two European Cup finals, winning the competition three times with the club and claiming five consecutive La Liga titles. He scored 619 goals in 618 matches in the Hungarian and Spanish leagues and National Cups.\n

After retiring as a player, he became a coach. The highlight of his coaching career came in 1971 when he guided Panathinaikos to the European Cup final, where they lost 2\u20130 to Ajax. He also led the club to the championship in 1972, becoming an icon in the country. Afterward he'd have spells at various countries and clubs, including Spain, Paraguay and the Saudi Arabia national team, with varying success. He returned again to Greece to manage an exceptionally strong AEK team for the 1978\u201379 season. In 1993, he returned to Hungary and took temporary charge of the Hungary national team.^[12] In 1998, he became one of the first ever FIFA/SOS Charity ambassadors.^[13] In 2002, the N\u00e9pstadion in Budapest was renamed the Pusk\u00e1s Ferenc Stadion in his honor.^[14] He was also declared the best Hungarian player of the last 50 years by the Hungarian Football Federation in the UEFA Jubilee Awards in November 2003.^[15] In October 2009, FIFA announced the introduction of the FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award, awarded to the player who has scored the \"most beautiful goal\" over the past year. He was also listed in Pel\u00e9's FIFA 100.\n

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Game no.\n	Round\n	Date\n	Opponent\n	Pusk\u00e1s\u2019 playing time\n	Score\n	Pusk\u00e1s\u2019 goals\n	Score\n	Times\n	Venue\n	Report\n
1	Prel. R.	15 July 1952	$\"\"$ Romania	90 min.	2\u20131 (1\u20130)	0	\u2014	\u2014	Kupittaa, Turku	^[31]\n
2	1st R	21 July 1952	$\"\"$ Italy	90 min.	3\u20130 (2\u20130)	0	\u2014	\u2014	Pallokentt\u00e4, Helsinki	^[32]\n
3	QF	24 July 1952	$\"\"$ Turkey	90 min	7\u20131 (2\u20130)	2	4\u20130 6\u20131	$\"\"$ 54' $\"\"$ 72'	Urheilukeskus, Kotka	^[33]\n
4	SF	28 July 1952	$\"\"$ Sweden	90 min	6\u20130 (3\u20130)	1	1\u20130	$\"\"$ 1'	Helsinki Olympic Stadium	^[34]\n
5	Final	2 August 1952	$\"\"$ Yugoslavia	90 min	2\u20130 (0\u20130)	1	1\u20130	$\"\"$ 70'	Helsinki Olympic Stadium	^[35]\n

Game no.\n	Round\n	Date\n	Opponent\n	Pusk\u00e1s\u2019 playing time\n	Score\n	Pusk\u00e1s\u2019 goals\n	Score\n	Times\n	Venue\n	Report\n
1	Group 2	17 June 1954	$\"\"$ South Korea	90 min.	9\u20130 (4\u20130)	2	1\u20130 9\u20130	$\"\"$ 12' $\"\"$ 89'	Hardturm Stadium, Z\u00fcrich	^[36]\n
2	Group 2	20 June 1954	$\"\"$ West Germany	90 min	8\u20133 (3\u20131)	1	2\u20130	$\"\"$ 17'	St. Jakob Stadium, Basel	^[37]\n
\u2013	QF	27 June 1954	$\"\"$ Brazil	Did not play	4\u20132 (2\u20131)	0	\u2013	\u2014	Wankdorf Stadium, Bern	^[38]\n
\u2013	SF	30 June 1954	$\"\"$ Uruguay	Did not play	4\u20132 (a.e.t.) (2\u20132, 1\u20130)	0	\u2013	\u2014	Stade Olympique de la Pontaise, Lausanne	^[39]\n
3	Final	4 July 1954	$\"\"$ West Germany	90 min	2\u20133 (2\u20132)	1	1\u20130	$\"\"$ 6'	Wankdorf Stadium, Bern	^[40]\n

List\n	Ref\n
The N\u00e9pstadion in Budapest was renamed the Pusk\u00e1s Ferenc Stadion in 2002.\n	^[14]\n
Asteroid 82656 Pusk\u00e1s, discovered by Kriszti\u00e1n S\u00e1rneczky and Gyula M. Szab\u00f3 in 2001, was named in his honor.\n	^[67]\n
The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 9 August 2006 (MPC 57425).\n	^[68]\n
A street named \u00dajtemet\u0151 utca near Stadium Bozsik in the Hungarian capital of Budapest (specifically the district of Kispest) was renamed after Pusk\u00e1s precisely one year after the footballer's death.\n	^[69]\n
The new Pusk\u00e1s Ar\u00e9na, its metro station, Pusk\u00e1s Akad\u00e9mia FC, Pusk\u00e1s Cup, and the FIFA Pusk\u00e1s Award all bear his name.\n	^[5]\n
A statue of Pusk\u00e1s was unveiled in 2017 in Melbourne, Australia, near the former site of the now demolished Olympic Park Stadium, where he led South Melbourne Hellas to the 1991 NSL Championship as manager.\n	^[70]^[71]\n

List\n	Ref\n
He appears in Wonder Striker (A csodacsat\u00e1r). It was directed by M\u00e1rton Keleti.\n	^[72]\n
He appears in one scene in the Egyptian movie Ghareeb fi Bayti (English: A stranger in my house) while he was watching the football match in the stands. At the time of the film, he was a coach for the Egyptian club Al Masry.\n	^[73]\n
In one scene, he appears with Fl\u00f3ri\u00e1n Albert in The Enchanted Dollar, which was directed by Istv\u00e1n Bujtor.\n	^[74]\n
Tam\u00e1s Alm\u00e1si (director), \u00c1d\u00e1m Nem\u00e9nyi (producer): Pusk\u00e1s Hungary, documentary, 2009.\n	^[75]\n
Csaba Gell\u00e1r (director), Tam\u00e1s Lajos, S\u00e1ndor Tak\u00f3 (producer): The World of Little Pusk\u00e1s animation series, 2021.\n	^[76]\n

Club\n	Season\n	League\n	National cup^[a]\n	Europe\n	Other\n	Total\n
Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals\n
Kispest/Budapesti Honv\u00e9d SE\n	1943\u201344\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	18	7	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	18	7\n
1944\u201345\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	2	1	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	2	1\n
1944\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	11	6	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	11	6\n
1945\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	20	10	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	20	10\n
1945\u201346\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	34	36	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	34	36\n
1946\u201347\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	29	32	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	29	32\n
1947\u201348\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	31	50	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	31	50\n
1948\u201349\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	28	46	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	28	46\n
1949\u201350\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	30	31	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	30	31\n
1950\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	15	25	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	15	25\n
1951\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	21	21	2	4	\u2014	\u2014	23	25\n
1952\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	26	22	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	26	22\n
1953\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	26	27	3	12	\u2014	\u2014	29	39\n
1954\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	20	21	\u2014	\u2014	\u2014	20	21\n
1955\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	26	18	6	4	4^[b]	3	\u2014	36	25\n
1956\n	Nemzeti Bajnoks\u00e1g I\n	13	5	\u2014	2^[c]	1	\u2014	15	6\n
Total\n	350	358	11	20	6	4	\u2014	367	382\n
Real Madrid\n	1958\u201359\n	La Liga\n	24	21	5	2	5^[c]	2	\u2014	34	25\n
1959\u201360\n	La Liga\n	24	25	5	10	7^[c]	12	\u2014	36	47\n
1960\u201361\n	La Liga\n	28	28	9	14	2^[c]	0	2^[d]	2	41	44\n
1961\u201362\n	La Liga\n	23	20	8	13	9^[c]	7	\u2014	40	40\n
1962\u201363\n	La Liga\n	30	26	7	5	2^[c]	0	\u2014	39	31\n
1963\u201364\n	La Liga\n	25	21	0	0	8^[c]	7	\u2014	33	28\n
1964\u201365\n	La Liga\n	18	11	4	4	3^[c]	2	\u2014	25	17\n
1965\u201366\n	La Liga\n	8	4	3	1	3^[c]	5	\u2014	14	10\n
Total\n	180	156	41	49	39	35	2	2	262	242\n
Career total\n	530	514	52	69	45	39	2	2	629	624\n

National team\n	Year	Apps	Goals\n
Hungary\n	1945	2	3\n
1946	3	3\n
1947	5	5\n
1948	6	7\n
1949	8	11\n
1950	6	12\n
1951	3	4\n
1952	12	10\n
1953	7	6\n
1954	11	8\n
1955	12	10\n
1956	9	4\n
Total	85	84\n
Spain\n	1961\n	1\n	0\n
1962\n	3\n	0\n
Total\n	4\n	0\n
Madrid\n	1963\n	1\n	2\n
Total\n	1\n	2\n
Career total\n	90\n	86\n

Team\n	Nat\n	From\n	To\n	Record\n	Ref\n
G\n	W\n	D\n	L\n	Win %\n
H\u00e9rcules\n	$\"Spain\"$ \n	23 July 1966\n	28 June 1967\n	34\n	8\n	9\n	17\n	023.53\n
Alav\u00e9s\n	$\"Spain\"$ \n	1 July 1968\n	26 June 1969\n	38\n	15\n	5\n	18\n	039.47\n
Panathinaikos\n	$\"Greece\"$ \n	1 July 1970\n	4 September 1974\n	170\n	109\n	32\n	29\n	064.12\n
Real Murcia\n	$\"Spain\"$ \n	6 December 1974\n	16 June 1975\n	26\n	6\n	5\n	15\n	023.08\n
Colo-Colo\n	$\"Chile\"$ \n	17 June 1975\n	19 August 1976\n	42\n	21\n	9\n	12\n	050.00\n
AEK\n	$\"Greece\"$ \n	11 June 1978\n	17 March 1979\n	31\n	19\n	6\n	6\n	061.29\n
Hungary\n	$\"Hungary\"$ \n	9 April 1993\n	22 June 1993\n	4\n	1\n	0\n	3\n	025.00\n

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Career in Hungary

Early years

Goldteam

Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s' statistics at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics

Ferenc Pusk\u00e1s' statistics at the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland

Honv\u00e9d World Tour

Spanish career

Real Madrid

Spanish national appearances

Appearance for Madrid autonomous team

Appearance for South Liverpool

Managerial career

Style of play

Later life and death

Legacy

Film

Career statistics

Club

International

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Manager

See also

Notes

References

External links

Ferenc Puskás

Talks

19 February, 1949