Nándor Hargitai
Personal information
Date of birth (1919-10-20)20 October 1919
Place of birth Mátraszele, Hungary
Date of death 11 September 2006(2006-09-11) (aged 86)
Place of death Esztergom, Hungary
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1933–1936 Dorogi
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1936–1937 Dorogi 25 (5)
1937–1938 Ferencváros 1 (0)
1938–1939 Phöbus 15 (1)
1940–1943 NAK Novi Sad
194x–1949 Viscosa
1949–1955 Dorogi 131 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Nándor Hargitai also known as Nándor Szirmai (20 October 1919 – 11 September 2006) was a Hungarian football midfielder.

Career

Born in Mátraszele, he begin his career at the youth team of Dorogi FC. He debuted at age 17 for Dorogi senior team in the 1936–37 season but a year later he was signing with Ferencvárosi TC. He made only one appearance for Ferencváros in the 1937–38 season when they won the Hungarian championship. While playing with Ferencváros he changed his name to Nándor Szirmai.[1] In the 1938–39 season, he joined another Hungarian top-flight club, Phöbus FC.[2] In 1940 he moved to Yugoslav club NAK Novi Sad.[3] However after only one season, and with Second World War on their way, the city of Novi Sad was occupied by Hungarian forces, and NAK begin to be known as Újvideki AC and play in the Hungarian championship. After the war he played with Hungarian side Viscosa SE until 1949 when he returned to Dorogi FC, now known as Dorogi Bányász and had just returned to top-flight, and played there until 1955 making a total of 131 league appearances and scoring once. He reached the 1953 Hungarian Cup final.[4][5]

He died on 11 September 2006, in Esztergom, Hungary.[6]

Honours

Ferencváros
Dorogi Bányász

References

  1. ↑ Szirmai Nándor at tempofradi.hu, retrieved 10-1-2014 (in Hungarian)
  2. ↑ Nándor Hargitai at nela.hu
  3. ↑ Nincs új a nap alatt Archived 4 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine at Magyar Szo online, 1-12-2005, retrieved 4-1-2014 (in Hungarian)
  4. ↑ Petrik József-Péntek Sándor: A Dorogi Bányász SC 75 éves Jubileumi Emlékkönyve/ A Dorogi Bányász labdarúgói
  5. ↑ Solymár Judit - Kovács Lajos: Dorogi lexikon p/111
  6. ↑ Dorog: elhunyt Hargitai Nándor at Nemzeti sport, 15-9-2006, retrieved 10-1-2014 (in Hungarian)

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