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Csaba László

Csaba László

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Playing career

László played for a number of clubs in Romania, Hungary and West Germany including Bayer 05 Uerdingen, Volán FC and BVSC Budapest but has never played at the highest level. He was forced to retire at age 27 due to a knee injury.

Managerial career

László started coaching in Germany with BW Kerpen. He then coached at Tus Grevenbroich and Borussia Mönchengladbach's B team. He discovered players of the calibre of Marcell Jansen, Eugen Polanski and Tobias Levels during his spell as Borussia's Youth Coach.

Hungary national team

László joined the coaching staff at the Hungary national team, where he was assistant coach to Lothar Matthäus in January 2004. He was instrumental for Matthäus as he did not have any knowledge of Hungarian football. The Hungary national team played the World Cup qualifications games for Germany 2006. During his time, the national team achieved good results and showed signs of improvement.

Ferencváros

In June 2004 László was appointed as the manager of Hungarian league side Ferencvárosi TC where he defeated Albanian Superliga side KF Tirana in the Champions League in 2004 before being eliminated by Sparta Prague. Ferencváros were then dropped into the UEFA Cup, where they defeated Millwall and Heart of Midlothian, and earned a 1–1 draw with Feyenoord. His success in Europe earned him the 2005 Hungarian Coach of the Year award. When Ferencváros ran into financial trouble in 2006, he left to join FC Sopron. He lasted only a matter of months at Sopron and left to become manager of the Uganda national squad later that year.

Uganda

After László's appointment as a head coach of Uganda, they missed out on qualification for the African Cup of Nations in Ghana 2008, on goal…

Club
KFC Uerdingen 05 (1988–1989)
Club
Volán FC (1989–1990)
Club
Budapesti VSC (1990–1991)

Personal

Personal life

László is of Székely origin. He is married with two children and studied in the Public Secondary School in Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania and in the university extension in Hoghia, Romania. He speaks four languages: English, German, Hungarian and Romanian. Being part of an ethnic minority while growing up in Communist Romania, he was forced to listen to Hungarian football matches on the radio in secret as foreign radio broadcasts were banned. He said, about this: "Life under the regime was brutal. It was especially hard on us Hungarians living there. We used to secretly listen to Ferencváros matches on the radio". László started working at Ford in Germany in 1987. He was still working there during his time as assistant coach to Lothar Matthäus at the Hungary national team.

Legacy

Honours

Coach

Ferencváros

Szuperkupa: 2004 Individual

Manager of the Year in Hungary: 2003–04. by the Hungarian Football Association SFWA Manager of the Year: 2008–09.

Clubs

Played together with

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

football manager

Position

midfielder

Extract from Wikipedia

Csaba László is a Romanian–Hungarian professional football manager and a former player.

▸ Source: Wikipedia
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