Istvan_Toth_(footballer)

István Tóth (footballer)

István Tóth (footballer)

Hungarian footballer and manager

István Tóth-Potya (28 July 1891 – 6 February 1945) was a Hungarian amateur footballer who played as a forward.

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He was a member of the Hungarian Olympic squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was an unused reserve player for the duration of the games and did not play a match in the 1912 football tournament.[2]

For the Hungary national team he played 19 games and scored 8 goals. He later had a coaching career, with alternating spells managing teams in Hungary and Italy.

Death

Returning from Italy and serving as a reserve officer in the Hungarian army, during World War II he became a member of the Hungarian anti-fascist resistance following Hungary's invasion by Germany, in association with former teammate Geza Kertesz[3] helping several hundred people escape from Nazi custody and death.[4] He and Kertesz were arrested by the German Gestapo in late 1944 and executed in February 1945 in Budapest by Hitler's Hungarian allies, Szálasi's Arrow Cross henchmen.[3]

His body and that of Kertesz were reburied after the war in April 1946 in Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    "Hungarian Players and Coaches in Italy". Rsssf.com.
  2. [2]
    "István Tóth". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. [3]
    Archived 15 May 2021 at the Wayback Machine news archive in Hungarian, from Four Four Two, Toth-Potya, Brull, Kertesz - Soccer victims of the Holocaust, accessed 17 May 2021.
  4. [4]
    "AS Roma official website Remembering Geza Kertesz, Roma coach and war hero". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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