Gyula Mándi
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- The native form of this personal name is Mándi Gyula. This article uses the Western name order.
| Gyula Mándi | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Julius Mandel | |
| Date of birth | July, 1899 | |
| Place of birth |  Budapest, Hungary |
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| Date of death | 1969 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1919-1929 1929-1937 |
MTK Hungária FC Hungária FC |
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| National team | ||
| 1921-1934 | Hungary |
31 (0) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1950-1956 1958 1959-1963 1964 |
Hungary América FC Israel Israel |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Gyula Mándi was a Hungarian footballer and manager. He was a member of the successful MTK Hungária FC of the 1920s and 1930s. Playing alongside the likes of Franz Platko, Béla Guttmann, Gusztáv Sebes, Jenő Kálmár, Pál Titkos, Iuliu Baratky and Ferenc Sas, Mándi made 325 appearances for the club. He also won 31 caps for Hungary. After retiring as a player he became a coach and was the nominal manager of Hungary during the era of the Mighty Magyars. However his former MTK team mate, Gusztáv Sebes, who out ranked him as the Deputy Minister of Sport, had the final say in the major decisions and was effectively in charge. In 1958 Mándi moved to Brazil to coach one of the several teams known as América FC. However he struggled to adapt and later took the post of coaching the national football team of Israel, which he did for four years and then returned to the post again in 1964 to fill in.
[edit] Honours
MTK Hungária FC
- Hungarian League
- Winner : 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1925, 1929, 1936, 1937 : 10
- Runner-up : 1926, 1928, 1931, 1933: 4
- Hungarian Cup
- Winner : 1923, 1925, 1932 : 3
- Runner-up : 1930, 1935: 2
| Preceded by Moshe Varon |
Israel national football team manager 1959-1963 |
Succeeded by George Ainsley |
| Preceded by Yosef Mirmovich |
Israel national football team manager 1964 |
Succeeded by Yosef Mirmovich |
[edit] Sources
- Behind The Curtain - Travels in Eastern European Football: Jonathan Wilson (2006) [1]
- The Nearly Men: Brian Glanville, World Soccer, November 2006
