Yozhef Betsa

Yozhef Betsa
Medal record
Men's football
Competitor for  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
Gold 1956 Melbourne Team
József Beca / Yozhef Betsa
Personal information
Full nameYozhef Yozhefovich Betsa
Date of birth6 November 1929
Place of birthMukachevo, Czechoslovakia
Date of death24 February 2011 (aged 81)
Place of deathMukachevo, Ukraine
Playing positionMidfielder
Youth career
Mukachevo Tobacco Factory
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1946Bilshovyk Mukacheve
1947–1949Spartak Uzhhorod
1950–1951GBO Stanislav
1951–1953Spartak Stanislav
1953–1954ODO Lviv22(0)
1954–1958CDSA / CSK MO Moscow35(2)
National team
1955USSR1(0)
1956USSR Olympic1(0)
Teams managed
1959–1961Lenin Military Athletic Institute
1961FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (assistant)
1963FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (assistant)
1964–1967FC SKA Rostov-on-Don
1968FC SKA Rostov-on-Don (assistant)
1969–1970SKA Lviv
1971–1972FC SKA Rostov-on-Don
1972–1973ZGV (East Germany)
1975FC SKA Rostov-on-Don
1976–1978FC Metalurh Zaporizhya
1979–1981FC Ararat Yerevan
1982FC Kairat
1985SKA Odessa
1989FC Torpedo Zaporizhia
1989–1990SKA Rostov-on-Don
1991Pryladyst Mukacheve (director)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Yozhef Yozhefovich (or Iosif Iosifovich) Betsa (Hungarian: József Beca, Ukrainian: Йожеф Йожефович Беца, Russian: Иосиф Иосифович Беца; 6 November 1929 – 24 February 2011) was a Ukrainian and Soviet football player and coach. Betsa was an ethnic Magyar. In December 2006 he was denied the invitation to accept a medal from the President of the Union of the Russian football veterans, Alexander Bagratovich Mirzoyan with the explanation that he has to reside in the Russian Federation. He was born and died in Mukacheve.

Honours

International career

Betsa made his debut for USSR on 23 October 1955 in a friendly against France.

See also

Other famous Soviet Magyar footballers:

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