Lajos Senfeld Tusko (born 1901 Szeged – died 1924 Belgrade) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper.
He was one of the most influential players of BSK Belgrade in the early 1920s and is specially remembered for his die hard attitude in the pitch.[1]
He begin his career in Szeged before moving to Budapest. In 1921 he came to Novi Sad in Kingdom of Yugoslavia and was one of the first professional players in FK Vojvodina where he played for two years.[2][3] In 1922 he moved to Belgrade and signed with BSK, at that time, sharing the title with Građanski Zagreb, SK Jugoslavija and Hajduk Split, the biggest club in pre-WWII Yugoslavia.
After two seasons he become an idol in Belgrade but he will suffer a heavy kidney injury in a clash with an opponent forward in a frindly match between the city selection of Belgrade, for whom he played, and the selection of Lower Austria region. After spending a couple of days in a hospital and two cirurgies he died. The main local sports newspaper Sport made an extensive coverage of the event and concluded the report with the following sentence: "He died like a hero and was burried as a small sports King."[4]
He was known in Yugoslav media in his Serbian language name version as Lajoš Šenfeld Tusko, or in Cyrillic as Лajoш Шeнфeлд Tуcкo.