Stats made by: Adhitz-Zetsu

Name: Sándor Szűcs



Country: Hungary
Club: Újpest
Position: *CB
Side: RF/BS
Age: 23-27 years (08/01/1921)

Height: 180 cm
Weight: 85 kg

Attack: 59
Defence: 89
Balance: 87
Stamina: 80
Top Speed: 79
Acceleration: 77
Response: 84
Agility: 73
Dribble Accuracy: 76
Dribble Speed: 71
Short Pass Accuracy: 77
Short Pass Speed: 72
Long Pass Accuracy: 75
Long Pass Speed: 74
Shot Accuracy: 62
Shot Power: 81
Shot Technique: 63
Free Kick Accuracy: 61
Curling: 63
Header: 86
Jump: 85
Technique: 76
Aggression: 58
Mentality: 84
Goalkeeper Skills: 50
Team Work: 80

Injury Tolerance: B
Condition/Fitness: 7
Weak Foot Accuracy: 6
Weak Foot Frequency: 5
Consistency: 7
Growth Type: Early Peak


CARDS:
S07: Man Marking
S09: Covering

SPECIAL ABILITIES: Marking - Covering

Attack/Defence Awareness Cards: Defence Minded


INFO:

Sándor Szűcs (January 8, 1921 - June 4, 1951) was a Hungarian football player. He began to play for Szolnoki MÁV, but he spent his best years playing for Újpest FC as a defender and helped the club win Hungarian League in three consecutive years from 1945 to 1947. Between 1941 and 1948, played 19 times Szűcs for Hungary, being one of the best central defenders in Europe during the forties. He played with such great players like Ferenc Szusza and Gyula Zsengellér for Újpest and Ferenc Puskas, Jozsef Bozsik, Ferenc Deák, György Sárosi or Nándor Hidegkuti for Hungary.

After communist takeover of Hungary, an era of conceptual, pre-arranged attempts by the regime has begun with many victims. The Communist Party tried to get involved in every part of daily life, and to rename the club to Újpest Budapesti Dózsa and expose them under police control were just a step of the cases. In 1951 resulting from a nascent plan was Szűcs, which still was an active player from Újpest, defect over the country cheated and extorting AVO. However, as the organizer of the cases, the state police took him prisoner, not far from the edge. After the months spent in prison, he was sentenced to death for high treason during a pre-arranged secret trial and executed later. The law referred in the sentence was never used again, or at any time before. The real reason behind the cases was to warn off Puskás, Bozsik and other members of the Hungarian Golden Team of the defection. Warning was made "successful" because no other Hungarian football players tried to leave the country until 1956.

All the newspapers and books, gave Hungary Witheld out any information and no one officially knew in the implementation of the policy changes to the country 1989th Also, the site of his tomb was strictly confidential. After the fall of the communist regime, Szűcss story was published widely. In 1989, revoked the death sentence and called it a violation of laws. In 1991 he was posthumous said police Lieutenant Colonel title because Újpest the police clubbing of 1950, and he had to be a policeman. Since 1993, a school was named after him inside Újpest, during a soccer tournament for youth players of the district is held every year. A documentary film was shot on his history in 2005. Earlier today the forgotten Sándor Szűcs is regarded as a martyr who was a victim of the Stalinist regime, you riot and made the only Hungarian to be a football player.

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