Gyula Bíró

Gyula Bíró (10 May 1890 – 4 October 1961) was a Hungarian Olympic football (soccer) player and manager of Jewish heritage.[2][3][4]

Gyula Bíró
Personal information
Full name Gyula Biró
Date of birth (1890-05-10)10 May 1890
Place of birth Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death 4 October 1961(1961-10-04) (aged 71)[1]
Place of death Mexico City, Mexico
Playing position(s) Midfielder, Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1905–1916 MTK 135 (17)
National team
1906–1916 Hungary 36 (3)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only
The native form of this personal name is Bíró Gyula. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

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 the autumn of 2015 was a coach 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. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 December 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2009.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary - Andrew Handler
  4. The Cambridge Companion to Football
  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. Retrieved 28 September 2012.


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