Sándor Gellér

Sándor Gellér

Personal information
Date of birth	12 July 1925
Place of birth	Vesszős, Romania
Date of death	13 March 1996 (aged 70)
Place of death	Budapest, Hungary
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1945-1947	Püspökladányi SC
1947-1962	MTK Budapest	260	(0)
National team
1950-1956	Hungary	8	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Sándor Gellér was a Hungarian soccer player who played goalkeeper.^{[1][2][3][4][5]} He was of Jewish ethnicity.^[6]

He won a gold medal with the Hungarian national team on 2 August at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.^[1][2] He played with Budapesti Vörös Lobogó between 1954 and 1955, and in the 1954 FIFA World Cup for Hungary.^[7]

See also

• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

References

1. Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 1-60280-013-8. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
2. Joseph Siegman (2000). Jewish sports legends: the International Jewish Hall of Fame. Brassey's. ISBN 1-57488-284-8. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
3. "Football: Sandor Geller". Footballdatabase.eu. 12 July 1925. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
4. "1969 European Championship for Men: Hungary". fiba.com. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
5. "Olympic Games". Jewish Virtual Library. Retrieved 25 December 2010.
6. http://www.sem40.ru/index.php?newsid=214380
7. "Sandor Geller". Usa.worldfootball.net. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 25 December 2010.

External links

• Soccer: technique, tactics, coaching, Árpád Csanádi, Corvina Press, 1972
• From goals to guns: the golden age of soccer in Hungary, 1950–1956, Andrew Handler, East European Monographs, 1994, ISBN 0-88033-298-0