In essence, he had a Southern civic attitude, which included a successful football coach, publisher and columnist in Magyar Szó, giving his first tennis racket to his colleague, the daughter of cartoonist Caroli Celis, Monica, who spent decades in Australia, then moved to his home in Novi Sad .
He was one of the last representatives of the great generation of Hungarian football, starting from the innumerable cultural capital, multi-history, and if necessary he wrote articles, if necessary, was a fitness coach, if necessary, an excellent manager.
Honored by the Queen of England at the pinnacle of his career and was Australia’s most celebrated man, he is known across the country as “Frank’s Companion” as he escorted the national team to the Seoul Olympics, where he defeated the superpower of Yugoslavia as an incredible feat, previously only a talented young coach Between the great worlds, Nigeria, and reached the quarter-finals, and only his team were knocked out of the finalists, Brazil and the Soviet Union.
Before becoming a captain, of course, he was helped by a global network of South Slavic and Hungarian refugees in Australia, he worked with the St.George Budapest team, and after six years as a captain in the 1990s, he also worked with the former Puskas Greek team, South Melbourne. He has had a huge impact on football on the continent, as did Highland Soccer captain Frank Lowe (Ferenc Lowe), commentator 56 Immigrant Football Not Murray (Laszlo Org) or the 1974. Attila Abuni, 90 years old and of course Ferenc Puskas.
He has maintained his friendship with György Szepesi for many decades, who has always found and cuddled Hungarians as captain in FIFA as he travels around the world. He wanted to bring her to a Hungarian captain several times, but to no avail. Its habitat was not fully known until recently. I met myself a few years ago, we asked him to be the honorary editor for the Hungarian edition of the football magazine FourFourTwo, and he would read regularly and comment on our articles and topics. We were invited to the opening of the Pancho Arena in 2014 when the Prime Minister Viktor Orban asked him to monitor the work at the academy and provide advice. He was very proud of this and as long as his health permitted, he would often visit Hungary and Topolia, where recently a new football citizen with a Hungarian identity had been built, with a great academy and professional team already at the forefront of Serbia. Owner János Zsemberi asked for an honorary president, Ferenc Árok was happy to help Topolya during his stay in Novi Sad city center, writing articles for Magyar Szóba, but after losing his wife, he became more and more tired and sad. Trends in football were not brought up either when we called from National Sports on the topic of Southern Slavic, and there was not much opinion about football today, nor about trends in Serbian football. He also predicted that the growing Hungarian national team would beat Serbia, Fradi and Dinamo Zagreb …
It’s a great experience to remember the six-year-old guest at the Puskas-Suzuki Cup, Not Murray, who unfortunately passed away since then, and then Robert Belteky, now known as NB I Budafok owner, (Róbert Bélteky), and Ferenc Árok, who is clever Always and don’t skimp on his sharp comments.
Brother Ferry, rest in peace! I miss you so much, we preserve your knowledge and memory.
s. Gray.
