| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | István Tóth-Potya | ||
| Date of birth | (1891-07-28)28 July 1891 | ||
| Place of birth | Budapest, Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 6 February 1945(1945-02-06) (aged 53) | ||
| Place of death | Budapest, Hungary | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Ferencváros | |||
| International career | |||
| 1909–1928 | Hungary | 19 | (8) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1926–1930 | Ferencváros | ||
| 1930–1931 | Triestina | ||
| 1931–1932 | Internazionale | ||
| 1932–1934 | Újpest | ||
| 1934–1936 | Triestina | ||
| 1938–1939 | Triestina | ||
| 1943 | Ferencváros | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
István Tóth-Potya (28 July 1891 – 6 February 1945) was a Hungarian amateur footballer who played as a forward.
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.
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 helping several hundred people escape from Nazi custody and death. 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.
His body and that of Kertesz were reburied after the war in April 1946 in Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest.
References
- "Hungarian Players and Coaches in Italy". Rsssf.com.
- "István Tóth". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
- ^ 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.
- "AS Roma official website Remembering Geza Kertesz, Roma coach and war hero". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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- 1891 births
- 1945 deaths
- Footballers from Budapest
- Hungarian men's footballers
- Ferencvárosi TC footballers
- Hungary men's international footballers
- Olympic footballers for Hungary
- Footballers at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- Hungarian football managers
- Ferencvárosi TC managers
- US Triestina Calcio 1918 managers
- Inter Milan managers
- Újpest FC managers
- Men's association football forwards
- Hungarian resistance members
- Resistance members killed by Nazi Germany
- People executed by the Government of National Unity (Hungary)
- Burials at Kerepesi Cemetery