István Tóth (footballer)

István Tóth-Potya (28 July 1891 – 6 February 1945) was a Hungarian amateur footballer.

István Tóth
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[1]
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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.[2]

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[3] helping several hundred people escape from Nazi custody and death.[4] 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.[3]

His body and that of Kertesz were reburied after the war in April 1946 in Kerepesi Cemetery, Budapest.[3]

References
  1. "Hungarian Players and Coaches in Italy". Rsssf.com.
  2. "István Tóth". Olympedia. Retrieved 25 May 2021.
  3. 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.
  4. "AS Roma official website Remembering Geza Kertesz, Roma coach and war hero". Retrieved 14 March 2021.
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