Sándor Kocsis
Hungarian footballer · Hungary · Footballers · Lived 1929 to 1979 · aged 49
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Something wrong?A striker whose heading ability and finishing rate were both freakish: 75 goals in 68 games for Hungary, eleven in the 1954 World Cup alone, and a goals-per-game average no one with more than 43 caps has matched since.
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1952 Summer olympics, olympic stadium. The Hungarian national team after the final (Hungary - Yugoslavia 2-0)
Aankomst elftal van Barcelona op Schiphol, De ex-Hongaar Sándor Kocsis, Bestanddeelnr 911-5238
Az Aranycsapat. Lóránt Gyula, Buzánszky Jenő, Hidegkúti Nándor, Kocsis Sándor, Zakariás József, Czibor Zoltán, Bozsik József, Budai II László, guggol- Lantos Mihály, Puskás Ferenc, Grosics Gyula. Fortepan 6671.jpg?width=1200)
Az Aranycsapat. Lóránt Gyula, Buzánszky Jenő, Hidegkúti Nándor, Kocsis Sándor, Zakariás József, Czibor Zoltán, Bozsik József, Budai II László, guggol- Lantos Mihály, Puskás Ferenc, Grosics Gyula. Fortepan 6671 (cropped).jpg?width=1200)
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Fussball-Weltmeisterschaft 1954 (Com M03-0108-005-0010)Teams 7
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Kocsis came up through Hungarian football in the early 1950s and became the scoring partner to Ferenc Puskás in the Mighty Magyars, the national team that dominated the decade. He led all European leagues in goals in both 1952 and 1954 while playing for Budapest Honvéd. At the 1954 World Cup he scored eleven times - still a record for a single tournament until 1958 - including two hat-tricks and four against West Germany. After the 1956 Hungarian Revolution he left for Spain and joined FC Barcelona, where he played out the late 1950s. Over his career he scored 556 goals in 537 official matches. He died in 1979, forty-nine years old.
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