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Gusztáv Sebes

1906 - 1986

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Gusztáv Sebes (born Gusztáv Scharenpeck; 22 January 1906 – 30 January 1986) was a Hungarian footballer, who played as a midfielder, and became a well-known coach later. With the title of Deputy Minister of Sport, he coached the Hungarian team known as the Mighty Magyars in the 1950s. Among the players in the team were Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, József Bozsik, and Nándor Hidegkuti. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gusztáv Sebes has received more than 93,511 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia. Gusztáv Sebes is the 235th most popular soccer player (down from 229th in 2019), the 137th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 113th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Gusztáv Sebes is most famous for being the architect of the Hungarian national football team that won the 1954 World Cup.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Gusztáv Sebes ranks 235 out of 16,880Before him are Johnny Rep, Mesut Özil, Abedi Pele, Peter Shilton, Tameo Ide, and Yasuo Takamori. After him are Michel Preud'homme, František Plánička, Yochanan Vollach, Osvaldo Ardiles, Helmut Haller, and Giovanni Ferrari.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Gusztáv Sebes ranks 75Before him are Nelson Goodman, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Janet Gaynor, Walter Rauff, Ivan Chernyakhovsky, and Brigitte Helm. After him are Carlo Scarpa, Zhou Youguang, Lillian Asplund, John Carradine, Markos Vafeiadis, and Hans Aumeier. Among people deceased in 1986, Gusztáv Sebes ranks 57Before him are Theodor Busse, Nikolay Semyonov, Ray Milland, Gunnar Björnstrand, Sterling Hayden, and Juan Rulfo. After him are Raimundo Orsi, Altiero Spinelli, Marcel Dassault, Lilli Palmer, Megumu Tamura, and Gabdulkhay Akhatov.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Gusztáv Sebes ranks 137 out of 866Before him are László Papp (1926), George I Rákóczi (1593), Leopold Auer (1845), André Kertész (1894), László Sólyom (1942), and Michael Polanyi (1891). After him are Magda Szabó (1917), Samuel Aba (990), Nikolaus Lenau (1802), Ladislaus Hunyadi (1431), Gusztáv Jány (1883), and Michael Balint (1896).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Gusztáv Sebes ranks 10Before him are Flórián Albert (1941), Béla Guttmann (1899), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Zoltán Czibor (1929), József Bozsik (1925), and Gyula Grosics (1926). After him are Gyula Zsengellér (1915), Ferenc Bene (1944), Gyula Lóránt (1923), György Sárosi (1912), Ferenc Deák (1922), and Máté Fenyvesi (1933).