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Sándor Kocsis

1929 - 1979

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Sándor Péter Kocsis (SHAWN-dor KOTCH-ish; Hungarian: [ˈʃaːndor ˈpeːtɛr ˈkot͡ʃiʃ]; 21 September 1929 – 22 July 1979) was a Hungarian footballer who played for Ferencvárosi TC, Budapest Honvéd, Young Fellows Zürich, FC Barcelona and Hungary as a striker. During the 1950s, along with Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, József Bozsik and Nándor Hidegkuti, he was a member of the Mighty Magyars. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sándor Kocsis has received more than 720,249 page views. His biography is available in 47 different languages on Wikipedia. Sándor Kocsis is the 25th most popular soccer player (up from 26th in 2019), the 30th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 33rd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

Sándor Kocsis is most famous for being the youngest member of the Golden Team, which was the Hungarian national team that won the gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Sándor Kocsis ranks 25 out of 16,880Before him are Santiago Bernabéu Yeste, Luis Suárez, Francisco Gento, Lionel Messi, Bobby Charlton, and Raymond Kopa. After him are Rivellino, Mário Zagallo, Just Fontaine, Gunnar Nordahl, Sócrates, and Didi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Sándor Kocsis ranks 24Before him are Frank Gehry, Hafizullah Amin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Christopher Plummer, Irene Papas, and Michael Ende. After him are Peter Higgs, Chet Baker, Oriana Fallaci, Karolos Papoulias, Tigran Petrosian, and Babrak Karmal. Among people deceased in 1979, Sándor Kocsis ranks 12Before him are Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Nino Rota, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Renoir, Hafizullah Amin, and Jean Seberg. After him are Jean Monnet, Dennis Gabor, Mika Waltari, Nelson Rockefeller, Hanna Reitsch, and Ludvík Svoboda.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Sándor Kocsis ranks 30 out of 866Before him are Ernő Rubik (1944), Ilona Staller (1951), Andrew II of Hungary (1175), Archduchess Marie Valerie of Austria (1868), Mary, Queen of Hungary (1371), and László Bíró (1899). After him are Eugene Wigner (1902), Dennis Gabor (1900), Elizabeth of Luxembourg (1409), Edward Teller (1908), Zoltán Kodály (1882), and Joseph Pulitzer (1847).

Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Sándor Kocsis ranks 2Before him are Ferenc Puskás (1927). After him are László Kubala (1927), Flórián Albert (1941), Béla Guttmann (1899), Nándor Hidegkuti (1922), Zoltán Czibor (1929), József Bozsik (1925), Gyula Grosics (1926), Gusztáv Sebes (1906), Gyula Zsengellér (1915), and Ferenc Bene (1944).