Table Of Contents |
Sándor Kocsis |
József Bozsik |
Gyula Grosics |
Gustáv Sebes |
http://magicalmagyars.com/1952_1953.html |
'Match of the Century' |
The 1954 World Cup |
1954-1956 Matches |
Inside 60 Matches |
'The Greatest' Goal Shooters Of All-Time Source: https://xtraimmortal.blogspot.com/2013/04/Total-Skill.html |
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All-Time Rank | Superstar |
Skills Rating |
No. 1 Gold | Ferenc Puskás | 9.85 |
No. 2 Silver | Gabriel Bastituta | 9.72 |
No. 3. Bronze | Pelé | 9.66 |
No. 4 Semifinalist | Eusébio | 9.61 |
No. 1) Ferenc Puskás
'Öcsi' (Little Kid Brother) | 'The Swabian' | 'The Galloping Major' | 'Little Booming Cannon' | 'Pancho'
***** The Rocket Creator Idol Of The Offense *****
The King Virtuoso Top Tier Offensive 'G.O.A.T.' As The Olympian Score-Making Apollo Of The World Proving Ground Sport
The Most Dominant Upcasting Burgeoning Majestic Giant Builder Of 2 1/2 'G.O.A.T.' Teams At 3 Dynasties
The Upholding Atlas Leading Rocket Creator 1st 'Golden Boy Superstar' Of 7 Touchstone Milestone Paramount Record Pillars
The Re-Founding Renaissance Man And Ageless Athletic Marvel Of Youthful Tonic Ambrosia Of 3 Iconic Careers
The Re-Inventing Pioneering Prophetic Oracle Of The Sport's Modern Times As The Main Star In 5 All-Time Super Matches Of Monumental Historic Fames
The Titan Of 2 Precedences Who Wonderfully Surpassed The Greatest Everlasting World Champion National Home-Field Advantage Of All-Time In 1953 And Forged The Greatest Top National League Home-Field Advantage Of All-Time In 1965
Soccer's Folkoric Great Legend Giant, Scoring 'Bambino', Tournament Extraordinaire, Horatio Alger & Journey Coaching Ulysses
1943 - 1949 Budapest Kispest -----> 1950 - 1956 Budapest Honvéd (The Best Herald Pioneering World Club Side Before The 1955 'UEFA Champions League') -----> 1949 - 1956 Hungary (The Topmost Supremest Team) -----> 1958 - 1966 Real Madrid (The Greatest Ever Team)
Greatest Ever Top Offensive Players In Top Tier Major Sports The Top Pillar All-Time Offensive Giants |
Soccer's Greatest Ever Most Accurate Powerful Scorers Source: https://x.com/defence2attack
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Association Sport |
Top Level Soccer |
Top Level Baseball | Top Level American Football | Top Level Hockey | Top Level Basketball | |
Criteria & Source |
Career Goals + Assists / 90 Minutes source: Recent Data From August 2021 |
Career On-Base + Slugging %
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Career Quarterback Passer Rating Minimum: 35,000 Aerial Passing Yards source: NFL Career Passer Rating Leaders | The Football Database (footballdb.com) |
Career Points (Goals + Assists) / Game source: NHL & WHA Career Leaders and Records for Points Per Game | Hockey-Reference.com |
Career Points + Assists / Game Minimum: 750 Games Who Has The Most Points Plus Assists Ever Average | StatMuse |
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No. 1 Gold
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***** Ferenc Puskás 'Galloping Major' / 'Pancho' ***** 1.48 G+A / 90 |
***** Babe Ruth 'The Bambino' ***** 1.16 OPS |
***** Aaron Rodgers 'A-Rod' ***** 103.6 Rating |
***** Wayne Gretzky 'The Great One' ***** 1.92 Points / Game |
***** Michael Jordan 'Air Jordan' ***** 35.4 P+A / Game |
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No. 2 Silver |
Pelé 1.40 G+A / 90 |
Ted Williams 1.12 OPS |
Russell Wilson 100.2 Rating |
Mario Lemieux 1.88 Points / Game |
Oscar Robertson 35.2 P+A / Game |
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No. 3 Bronze |
Lionel Messi 1.26 G+A / 90 |
Lou Gehrig 1.08 OPS |
Drew Brees 98.7 Rating |
Mike Bossy 1.50 Points / Game |
Lebron James 34.5 P+A / Game |
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No. 4 Semifinalist |
Eusébio 1.22 G+A / 90 |
Barry Bonds 1.05 OPS |
Kirk Cousins 97.8 Rating |
Connor McDavid 1.49 Points / Game |
"The World's Greatest Goalscorer" The 2015 Exhibition Of Puskás At The National Football Museum. Ferenc Puskás & His Other Playing Great Teammates In Nándor Hidegkuti (1945-1956), Sándor Kocsis (1948-1956) And Alfredo Di Stéfano (1958-1964) As Weighed By Official Goal-Match Ratios (Shown Right). |
All-Time Greatest Goalscorers In Modern Top Tier Careers In Official Contests Past 760 Matches |
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All-Time Rank | Greatest Official Goalscorer | Goals Per Match | Total Goals | Official Matches | |
No. 1 Gold | Ferenc Puskás | 1.01 | 802 | 792 | |
Tie No. 2. Silver | Abe Lenstra | 0.93 | +789 | 850 | |
Tie No. 2. Silver | Gerd Müller | 0.93 | 735 | 793 | |
Tie No. 3 | Ronnie Rooke | 0.91 | +934 | 1030 | |
Tie No. 3 | Pelé | 0.91 | 778 | 851 | |
No. 44 | Sándor Kocsis | 1.04 | 556 | 537 | |
No. 57 | Nándor Hidegkuti | 0.78 | 523 | 674 | |
No. 56 | Alfredo Di Stéfano | 0.73 | 524 | 720 |
' The Greatests ' Top 20th Century National Scorers Of Europe & The Western Hemisphere source: List of top international men's football goal scorers by country - Wikipedia |
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20th Century Rank |
Star Player | Country | Goals | Matches | Goal Ratio |
1. Gold | Ferenc Puskás | Hungary | 83* | 83* | 1.00 |
2. Silver | Pelé | Brazil | 77 | 92 | 0.836 |
3. Bronze | Sándor Kocsis | Hungary | 75 | 66 | 1.136 |
No. 4 | Gerd Müller | West Germany | 68 | 62 | 1.097 |
No. 5 | Imre Schlosser | Hungary | 59 | 68 | 0.87 |
* The matches against the Soviet Union on May 24th and 27th 1952 were played against a ' Moscow Select XI ' (Moscow city teams' selection and not the 'national Soviet Union team') and will not be included in the statistics. |
' The Greatests ' All-Time Top Total Assist-Makers (Update 2024)
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' The Greatests ' All-Time National Top Division League Scorers
The International Federation of Football History & Statistics (update: January 5, 2022) source: IFFHS World's Best Top Division Goal Scorer - Wikipedia |
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All-Time Rank
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Star Player
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Nationality
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Goals
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1. Gold |
Ferenc Puskás
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Hungary
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511*
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3. Silver
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Cristiano Ronaldo
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Portugal
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487
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3. Bronze
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Lionel Messi
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Argentina
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475
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No. 4
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Imre Schlosser
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Hungary
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417
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No. 5
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Gyula Zsellengér
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Hungary
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416
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Puskás was banned from playing by FIFA for 18-months for his defection from Hungary from 1956-1957. |
Puskas's Full Career At The G.O.A.T. Team From Age 31 To 39 At Real Madrid: 262 Total Matches | 243 Total Goals + 136 Opta Assists ***** 1.45 Goals + Assists Per Match ***** 'The Very Best That Has Ever Been'
Twice Winner/Hero Of "The Match Of The Century" | The Inspiring Co-Captain Of The 'Champions League' Establishment in 1955 With 1954 Honvéd Vs. Wolverhampton The Only Man In History To Have Scored In A: Olympic Final (1952), European Championship Final (1953), World Cup Final (1954), European Cup Final (1960, 1962), Intercontinental Final (1960) & Spanish Cup Final (1960, 1961, 1962) 16-Time M.V.P. Top Scorer 10 Major League National Championships 8-Time League M.V.P. Top Scorer 6-Time UEFA European Cup Team Finalist (3-Time European Cup Team Winner: 1959, 1960, 1966) |
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Total Official Matches | Total Official Assists |
National Hungary (1945-56) |
Top National, Kispest-Honvéd (1943-56) |
Top National, Real Madrid (1958-66) |
UEFA Champions League |
Hungarian Cup |
Spanish Cup |
792 total matches 802 goals 1.01 goals/game |
404 Assists |
83 matches 83 goals 1.00 goals/game |
367 total team matches 383 goals 1.04 goals/game |
262 total team matches 243 goals |
41 matches 36 goals |
11 matches 20 goals 1.82 goals/game |
41 matches 49 goals |
Phenom +800 Career Goal Mark |
(Sport All-Time High) |
World Record Holder (1953-1980) |
0.93 Goals/Match (Franchise 20th Century Peak for Major Player) |
0.88 goals/game All-Time High, (minimum 35 scores) |
1.20 goals/game All-Time High, (minimum 46 scores) |
***** Ferenc Puskás Is The Babe Ruth & The Johnny Unitas Of Soccer ***** The Rocket Creator Idol Of The Offense The Master King Virtuoso Top Tier Offensive 'G.O.A.T.' As The Olympian Score-Making Apollo Of The World Proving Ground Sport The Most Dominant Upcasting Burgeoning Majestic Giant Builder Of 2 1/2 'G.O.A.T.' Teams At 3 Dynasties The Upholding Atlas Leading Rocket Creator 1st 'Golden Boy Superstar' Of 7 Touchstone Milestone Paramount Record Pillars The Re-Founding Renaissance Man And Ageless Athletic Marvel Of Youthful Tonic Ambrosia Of 3 Iconic Careers The Re-Inventing Pioneering Prophetic Oracle Of The Sport's Modern Times As The Main Star In 5 All-Time Super Matches Of Monumental Historical Renown The Titan Of 2 Precedences Who Wonderfully Surpassed The Greatest Everlasting World National Champion Home-Field Advantage Of All-Time In 1953 And Forged The Greatest Top National League Home-Field Advantage Of All-Time In 1965 Ferenc Puskás Is 'The Rocket Creator Idol Of The Offense' As The Sport's Most Complete Colossus As The Most Dominant Extensive Comprehensive Assailing Spectral Offensive Player Of All-Time In Unexampled Deliverance Of Team Fitness And Finesse With Supernatural Au Naturale Evergreen Vitalities Of The Highest Standards And Practices To Be The Remastering Jack Of All Trades Goalscoring Point Man In Burgeoning Buildout Majesties In 2 1/2 'G.O.A.T' Teams In 719 Official Contests Where An Astonishing 3.1 Team Goals (Or 31 Points/Game In American Football Terms) Were Averaged Throughout A Full Modern Career In All Classed Encounters Who Was The 'Total Football' Helmsman Transported By Awesome Visionary Insights Who Featured Such Magnificent Unerring Decisive Outpassing Acumens With The First Rate Impeccable Long Ball, Fast Superb In-Game Situational Maneuvering, Unrivalled Pinpoint Outbound Accuracy With The Zooming Ball Of Thunderstone Propelling Legwork Who Swiftly Raced With Enlivening Converse With The Other Greats Of The Game With Boosting Confidence Of All Win Opportunities And Mercurial Ageless Timeless Youthful Ambiance In Such Powerful Playmaking In Consummate Handling, Crafts And Techniques So Uniquely Singular And Special To Muster The Double Towering Of All-Time Top Major League And National Scoring And The All-Time Assisting To Completely Engage The Premier World Sport With The High Flourish Individual Ace Scoring And Teamwork Enabling Scores-Passing Furtherance To Go Where No Man Has Ever Gone Before To Be The Transforming Re-Establishing Wonderful King Virtuoso Of Élan Who Was Blessed With The Ingenious Midas Touch Where Everything He Touched On The Field Turned To Gold With Enjoyable Fruitions Who Had The Clairvoyant Intuitions, The Volitions And Beautiful Senses For The Game Within All Team Concords And Heaving Score-Making Transcendence That He Wielded The Top Power Ratings On Two 'G.O.A.T.' Teams And Was Decorated With All The Top Records In Longevity That He Was Titular Monumental As 'The Very Best And Greatest Player Who Has Ever Lived'
1.) The Greatest Scorer In History 2.) The Top Ranked National Team In History 3.) The Top National League Team In History 4.) The Most National Top Division Goals In History 5.) The Most National Team Goals In History 6.) The Most Total Assists In History 7.) The Touchstone For Top Tier Modern Careers At '1.48 Goals + Assists Per Career Match' In Added Light Of Puskás' Golden Boy Aura Of Unprecedented Three Teams Fortunes Was His Ingratiating Partnering Arrived Rendezvous Alongside Two Of The Very All-Time Greatest Who Have Performed Super In Sándor Kocsis (1948-1956) And Alfredo Di Stéfano (1958-1964) As Sándor Kocsis Was Per Capita The Very Best National International Player Who Carried The Big Major Winnings And Alfredo Di Stéfano Was The 20th Century's Greatest Ever Top League Player In Dual Unions With Puskás In Glorious Unparalleled Historic High Reaches When Puskás & Kocsis And Puskás & Di Stéfano Once Reigned And Held Foremost Dominion In The Soccer World To Become The Sport's Greatest And Most Replete Scorer And The Truest Emblematic Modern Offensive Star Who Has Ever Lived
1. & 2.) ' Matches Of The Century I & II ' (1953, 1954)
3.) 1954 World Cup Final (Hungary 1 : 0 | 3 : 2 | 3 : 3 West Germany) Puskás Could Be Rightly Owed As A Won Player Who Heroically Scored 2 Goals Where He Could Be Posthumously Re-Awarded At A Later Gathered Future Event With An Honorable Bestow Given To Puskás And His 1954 Teammates With Co-World Champion Official Titles To Best Justify The Controversial 1954 World Cup Finale And Be 1954 FIFA Co-Champions Of The World With 1954 West Germany In The Monumental Title Match That Changed The Course And Affairs Of Soccer, European And World History In A Super Match Of Considerable Historical Relevance 4.) Honvéd 2 : 3 Wolverhampton (1954) The Top League Prestige Friendly Special Rendezvous Between The World's Very Best Top Sides That Was Sensationally Famous For It's Late 0-2 To 3-2 Evening Glowing Quagmire Chastened Thrilling Revival Under Newly Invented Stadium Floodlights That Helped Inspire In 'Champions League' The Following Year In 1955 5.) Real Madrid 7 : 3 Eintracht Frankfurt (1960) The Giant Precedential Famously Celebrated Super Match Very Widely Thought Of, Considered And Celebrated Foundationally As 'The Greatest Match Ever' That Forever Established The Top League World Giants |
***** All-Time Leading World Records Set ***** Career Accomplished: 1943-1966 --- By The First Original 'Golden Boy Superstar' Of Joie De Vivre --- |
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All-Time Pillar High In Modern Top Tier Careers 1.48 Goals + Assists Per All Official Matches |
All-Time Highest Rated Top National Team 2232 Elo Points At 1954 Hungary |
20th Century's Highest Rated Top Division Team 2069 Elo Points At 1961 Real Madrid |
All-Time National Top Division League Goalscorer I.F.F.H.S. Verified 511 Goals |
All-Time Top National Team Career Goalscorer 83 Goals |
All-Time Top Total Career Assist-Maker 404 Assists |
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Surpassed The World's Greatest Ever Team Athletic Sports Reign In 1953 90 Years |
Partook On The Sport World's All-Time Greatest Ever 'Home-Field' 121 Consecutive Undefeated Home League Matches From 1958-1965 |
All-Time Top Total Assist-Maker At National Team In 20th Century 54 Assists |
All-Time Best Offensive Player In The Champions League Past 40 Matches All-Time High 1.39 Goals + Opta Assists Per Match |
Captain Of The First National Team To Surpass 30 Matches Undefeated 31 Consecutive Undefeated Matches |
All-Time Top National Appearances 83 Matches |
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The Super Defining Redefining Offensive Stratocasting Giant Upcasting 2 1/2 Giant Teams Of Highest Scores: 719 Total Top Tier Official Matches: 3.106 Team Goals-Per-Match Average 3.106 Goals - 1.342 = +1.76 Goal Win Average In 719 Total Matches |
The Pillar Exemplar Greatest Offensive Rocket Player On 2 1/2 All-Time G.O.A.T. Teams At Three Dynasties |
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2 1/2 G.O.A.T. Giant Teams |
Teams Matches | Goals + Assist-Per-Match |
Teams Goals-Per-Match |
G + A Per Match Scoring Play Team Bandwidth % |
Teams Goal Win Average |
Distinctions & Honors |
Budapest Kispest (1943-1948/49) |
174 | 1.42 | 2.72 | 52.2% |
+0.84 A Very Good Team |
382 Total Goals In 367 Matches 1.04 Goals-Per-Match Wikipedia Source: |
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1/2 G.O.A.T. Team Budapest Honvéd (1949/50 - 1956) |
164 | 1.98 | 4.30 | 46.0% |
+2.79 Scoring Rout Quality |
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1st G.O.A.T. Team NT Hungary (1945-1956) |
85 | 1.58 | 3.99 | 39.6% |
+2.58 Scoring Rout Quality |
Highest Rated Team Of All-Time With 2232 Elo Points In 1954 | |
2nd G.O.A.T. Team Real Madrid (1958-1966) |
262 | 1.44 | 2.72 |
52.9% (Scoring Play Involved 52.9% Of The Time In Matches) |
+1.70 Top Powerhouse Giant |
Highest Rated Team Of 20th Century With 2069 Elo Points In 1961 |
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Source: 2069 Elo Points As 20th Century Peak With 1961 Real Madrid | Source: 2232 Elo Points As All-Time Peak With 1954 Hungary | Source: 404 Total Assists As Sport All-Time High |
' The Greatests ' All-Time Top Ranked National Teams The Fabulous Highest Performance
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No. 1. Gold |
Hungary Ferenc Puskás |
2232 | July 4, 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 2 Silver | Germany | 2223 | July 13, 2014 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 3 Bronze | England | 2216 | Nov. 9, 1912 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 4 | Brazil | 2195 | Nov. 28, 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 5 | Spain | 2175 | Nov. 15, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 6 | Argentina | 2171 | Sept. 5, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
No. 7 | Belgium | 2158 | June 27, 2021 |
***** Ferenc Puskás Is 16 Times Tournament Top Scorer M.V.P. *****
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*Unawarded (Incomplete Tournament) | 1948 Balkan Cup* | 5 Goals | 4 Tournament Matches |
1.) | 1947 - 1948 Hungarian Top League | 50 Goals | 31 League Matches | |
2.) | 1948 -1953 Central European International Cup | 10 Goals | 7 Tournament Matches | |
3.) | 1949 - 1950 Hungarian Top League | 31 Goals | 30 League Matches | |
4.) | 1950 Hungarian Top League | 25 Goals | 15 League Matches | |
5.) | 1953 Hungarian Top League | 27 Goals | 26 League Matches | |
6.) |
1959 - 1960 Spanish Top League | 25 Goals | 24 League Matches | |
7.) | 1959 - 1960 Spanish Cup | 10 Goals | 5 Cup Matches | |
8.) | 1959 - 1960 UEFA Champions League | 12 Goals | 7 Tournament Matches | |
9.) | 1960 - 1961 Spanish Top League | 28 Goals | 28 League Matches | |
10.) | 1960 - 1961 Spanish Cup | 14 Goals | 9 Cup Matches | |
11.) | 1961 - 1962 Spanish Top League | 20 Goals | 23 League Matches | |
12.) | 1961 - 1962 Spanish Cup | 13 Goals | 8 Cup Matches | |
13.) | 1962 - 1963 Spanish Top League | 26 Goals | 30 League Matches | |
14.) | 1963 - 1964 UEFA Champions League | 7 Goals | 8 Tournament Matches | |
15.) | 1963 - 1964 Spanish Top League | 21 Goals | 25 League Matches | |
16.) | 1962 - 1963 Spanish Cup | 5 Goals | 7 Cup Matches |
Ferenc Puskás 129 Top Level Major League World Tournament Matches Is 145 Goals: 1.12 Goals Per Career To Tournament Match In All Top Tier World Career Tournaments From 1947-1966 Including 'The Matches Of The Century I & II' 16 Times Career Top Scorer M.V.P. Source: https://www.transfermarkt.us/ferenc-puskas/erfolge/spieler/103092 |
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Joyous and winsome 'Pancho' Puskás training to be fit as a fiddle three days prior to the 1964 European Cup Final match. |
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Tournament Occasion |
1947 & 1948 Balkan Cups |
1952 Summer Olympic Games |
1948 - 1953 Central European Cup |
'Matches Of The Century I & II' |
1954 World Cup |
1955 Club Mitropa Cup |
1955 - 1960 Central European Cup |
1951-1966 National Cup Matches |
1955-1966 UEFA Champions League |
1960 Top Division League World Cup |
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Games To Goals & Result |
6 Games 8 Goals |
5 Games 4 Goals |
8 Games 10 Goals |
2 Games 4 Goals |
3 Games 4 (Or 5) Goals |
4 Games 3 Goals |
6 Games 5 Goals |
52 Games 69 Goals |
41 Games 36 Goals |
2 Games 2 Goals |
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1947 Winner |
Winner |
Winner |
Away & Home Winner Unofficial: 'World Champion' |
Officially Silver Finalist Unofficial: 'FIFA 1954 World Cup Champion' |
Semifinal | Silver Finalist |
1961 - 1962 Winner |
3-Time Team Winner 3-Time Silver Team Finalist As Player Or Head Manager |
Winner |
All-Time Greatest And Very Best Pound-Per-Pound Offensive Rocket Players In The UEFA Champions League By Goals + Opta Criteria Assists (40 Min. Matches) No. 1 Gold: Ferenc Puskás (All Played By Puskás Between The Ages Of 31 And 38) 1.39 Goals + Opta Assists Per Match source https://x.com/Puskas998 |
***** The All-Time Greatest Ever Trio ***** 'Pancho'—'The Blonde Arrow'—'Paco' Three Immortal Iconic Legends, the dazzlingly learned grand master craftsmen and grand leaders of the game on the 'FIFA Club Team of the Century': unquestionably the most decorated, completed and greatest leading club strike trio of all time: Di Stéfano - Gento -Puskás (1958-1964) who had 14 won European Cup titles between them, the three would combine for 437 goals together in six years. Alfredo 'The Blonde Arrow' Di Stéfano, the 20th Century's greatest ever top club player, Ferenc 'Pancho' Puskás, the leading epic crackerjack goalscorer as the very best ever top level upcasting offensive player and swift mercurial great winger Francisco 'Paco' Gento who is the only man to have won six European Cup titles as a player were "The Greatest Ever Trio" on the highest rated franchise team of last century in 1961. ***** 43 Important Tournament Matches ***** Puskás In The Champions League & The Intercontinental Cup
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By Debut | Star Key Players |
Goals (30 Goals = Magic) |
Goal Ratio (0.80 = Magic) |
Wins | Draws |
Loss (0 - 1 Loss = Magic) |
Win % (75% = Magic) |
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Aug. 1945 |
Ferenc Puskás A Popular, Lukewarm And Hopeful 50% - 50% Debatable Controversial Decision The Captain Started Amid A Healing Unmended Hairline Fracture Ankle Injury |
67 Leading World Record Magic |
1.22 Magic |
43 | 5 | 7 |
82.7% Magic |
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Sept. 1945 | Nándor Hidegkuti |
30 Magic |
0.81 Magic |
34 | 3 |
1 Magic |
95.9% Magic |
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Oct. 1946 |
Ferenc 'Bamba' Deák A Very Bad Decision To Not Retain The Stellar Services Of Superstar Talented Scoring Ace 'Bamba' Who Was Deselected From The NT In Nov. 1949 By The New Team Coach, Gustáv Sebes, For Reasons Of Being Politically Unreliable In The New Brought In Regime |
29 |
1.45 Magic |
14 | 2 | 4 |
75.0% Magic |
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Aug. 1947 | József Bozsik | 4 |
0.08 |
40 | 5 | 5 |
85.0% Magic |
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Aug. 1947 | Gyula Grosics (GK) |
-1.06 Goals Conceded Per Match Magic |
30 | 3 |
0 Magic |
95.5% Magic |
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June 1948 | Sándor Kocsis |
48 Magic |
1.26 Magic |
32 | 5 |
1 Magic |
90.8% Magic |
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May 1949 |
Lászlo Budai II A Very Bad Decision To Not Start Veteran And Expert Budai In The 1954 Final That Displeased Puskás |
7 | 0.30 | 18 | 4 |
1 Magic |
86.96% Magic |
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July 1949 |
Zóltan Czibor A Very Bad Decision To Ill-Suitedly Place Czibor To Budai's Right-Wing Position In The 1954 Final With No Prior Playing Experience In That Role In Entire Career |
8 | 0.28 | 25 | 4 |
0 Magic |
93.1% Magic |
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Sept. 1950 |
Péter Palotás A Very Bad Decision To Not Start Expert Palotás In The 1954 Final |
11 | 0.69 | 14 | 2 |
0 Magic |
93.75% Magic |
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Oct. 1949 |
Mihály Tóth (In Question) All-Time Worst Decision To Start In The 1954 Final As Any Player |
1 | 0.25 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 87.50% |
Simply the Greatest! 1949-1956 Hungary The Fantasy Team | The Dream Powerhouse | The Oracle Renaissance World Magic Olympian Team | The Top Legendary Crackerjack Side | A Sporting Avalon The Highest Performing, Greatest Scoring And Indisputably Highest Rated No. 1 Team of All-Time As International Football's Strongest, Most Dynamic, Powerful-Balanced, Most Inventive & Influential 35.59% (+ 1/3) Of 59 Matches = 5 to + 5 Goal Margin Victory May 8, 1949 To Nov. 27, 1955 In 59 Matches The classic lineup of the Hungarian 'Golden Team/Magical Magyars': Kocsis-Budai-Zakariás-Lantos-Buzánszky-Bozsik-Czibor-Hidegkuti-Loránt-Grosics-Puskás (pictured May 17th, 1953 in Rome), the highest rated national team of all time. The 'Golden Team' went 49 wins, 9 draws, and 1 defeat (with the omission of the 1954 World Cup Final for a 98.3% undefeated percentage) over the course of seven years that brandished a historic tour de force blockbuster offense in a class of its own that scored 4.36 goals per game at the sport's highest level.
* Does not include the 1954 World Cup Final due to various controversies. The games against the Soviet Union on May 24th and 27th 1952 was played against a ' Moscow Select XI ' (Moscow city teams' selection and not the 'national Soviet Union team') and also will not be included in the statistics. Basic Win By 1 Goal = 7 Matches (11.86%) Covering The Goal Line By 2 Goal Win = 9 Matches (15.25%) Strong Performance By 3 Goal Win = 8 Matches (13.56%) Powerhouse Display By 4 Goal Win = 4 Matches (0.068%) Comprehensive Débâcle By 5 Goals Win = 11 Matches (18.84%) Crushing Tour de Force Rout By 6 to +6 Goal Win = 10 Matches (16.95%) Source: |
Zenith Top Level Game Winning Ace Goal Involvement Player Ratings Per Career Match source: (3) ... (@Trachta10) / Twitter
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' The Greatest ' All-Time League 'Home Fields' |
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All-Time Rank | Franchise | Home Undefeated Streak | Date Began |
Streak End Date |
Star Catalyst Players |
No. 1 Gold | Real Madrid | 121 Undefeated Matches | Feb. 17, 1957 | March 7, 1965 |
Puskás Di Stéfano-Gento-Santamaría |
No. 2 Silver | Crvena Zvezda | 96 | Aug. 29, 1998 | Aug. 7, 2004 | |
No. 3 Bronze | PSV Eindhoven | 93 | Sep. 17, 1983 | Mar. 19, 1989 | |
No. 4 | FC Nates | 92 | May15, 1976 | Apr. 7, 1981 | |
No. 5 | Cobreloa | 91 | 1979 | 1985 | |
No. 6 | Spartak Trnava | 89 | Mar. 30, 1968 | April 2, 1974 | |
No. 7 | Torino | 88 | Jan. 31, 1943 | Nov. 6, 1949 | |
No. 8 | Chelsea | 86 | Mar. 20, 2004 | Nov. 26, 2008 | |
Tie No. 9 | Panathinaikos * | 85 | April 8, 1973 | April 16, 1978 | |
* Puskás was head manager of Panathinaikos from 1970-1974. | |||||
Famous sports hero 'Pancho' Puskás in May of 1962 prior to the 1962 European Cup Final versus great Hungarian manager Béla Guttmann's Benfica in Amsterdam. Puskás in the title game would go on to score 3 big goals and take a 2-0 and 3-2 lead at halftime for Real Madrid. Puskás holds the all-time record for best goal ratio in the European Cup ('Champions League') past 35 scores with 36 goals in 41 matches (0.878%). |
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The Iconic Titan Legendary Six All-Time Rankings |
Team Goals Per Career Match | Goals + Assists - Penalty Kicks / 90 Minutes | |
No. 1 Gold | Ferenc Puskás | Ferenc Puskás | |
No. 2 Silver | Johan Cruyff | Pelé | |
No. 3 Bronze | Pelé | Lionel Messi (ongoing) | |
No. 4 | Lionel Messi | Johan Cruyff |
Budapest Kispest (1943) ----> Budapest Honvéd (The Very Best Herald World Side Before 1955 Champions League) ----> Hungary (The Topmost Supreme Team) ----> Real Madrid (Greatest Ever Of All-Time)
Two of Hungary's most famous native sons from Budapest, Ferenc Puskás and his great strike partner friend Sándor Kocsis were fateful survivors of the pivotal 'Siege of Budapest' that lasted from December 24, 1944 to February 13, 1945. 18-year-old Ferenc Puskás' debut in the Hungarian national team on August 20,1945 ('Saint Stephen's Day') was Hungary's second match in the bellwether turning-point and tough crucible turbulent year. The teenager 'Öcsi' Puskás scored first in Puskás' famous inaugural 5-2 win over the world's No. 7 Austria in Budapest 104 days after 'Victory in Europe Day' on May 8, 1945. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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' The Greatests ' Puskás, the greatest goalscorer and offensive pillar in history with Real Madrid teammates José Santamaría, recognized as one of the greatest centerbacks in history and Alfredo Di Stéfano who was the 20th Century's greatest club player of all-time. |
All association sporting teams have before it an icon of unexampled production, the true favorited ideal perfect soleil of the offense or the idol of the super 'beyond further' (plus ultra) power Midas rocket player.
There is a player everyone has heard of. The annual FIFA Puskás Award well receives those players who have scored the most 'aesthetically significant' or most 'beautiful goal' in a calendar year. Puskás was honored for being named the top national 1st division goalscorer in the 20th century by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (I.F.F.H.S) in 1997. With Hungary Puskás became the international world-record holder for goals with 83 goals in 83 'full national' appearances and who also held the world-record for most national top league goals with 511. Puskás was also a historic plus ultra ('further beyond') 'total-team' game player to dazzle with a dividend of such enlivening converse and decisive final-pass delivery to teammates to still hold the all time world-record with 404 total assists. Puskás would admit the whole triumphant answer with the goals that win, with the assists that glow to form them into a fine scoring athletic ensemble of unparalleled amplitude and there lies all the length and breadth and the bravado of the fondest player, Ferenc Puskás was the 'The Greatest Player of the 20th Century'.
Once there came a man from very humble origins who pursued football's horizons during times severely tried by the calamities of the 20th Century and as by some vast undivided magic played together with the greatest players of the ages on fabulous teams modern as any who helped make European, athletic and sports history and who universalized the greatness of two renowned titan teams of all times. As a player who was never bought or sold in his life Puskás spent his entire career at the very top-flight of his profession that seemed to raise his game to a sublime level.
Ferenc Puskás (b. April 1, 1927, Budapest) also known worldwide as 'Öcsi' ('Sonny', pronounced: Uhchee), 'The Galloping Major' and 'Pancho' was the great maximally élite top level 'total-team' transcending sport-changing mercurial triumphant high fidelity action player as the conductor par excellence of such leading command for whom formalists and sports leaders had been searching for ever since the early 20th Century. With Puskás playing a key role as captain and primarily the No. 10 forward all great teams that he played for statistically soared as the highest scoring and highest ranked everlasting teams of all time.
If the sport of association football is keyed to the tenor of the ruling goal on a perfectly functional team to decide a match's result not necessarily possession then there was no other more influential history-making, landscape-shaping and efficient powerhouse top-flight offensive star player in the game than Ferenc Puskás. Puskás is still considered the most eminent national and national top division goalscorer unified in the sport. As a master milestones-making goalscorer Puskás was somebody who rows somewhere far on a sojourn to set in the sky high scoring numbers, records and historical precedence. But scoring goals is not everything but also conceived in well versed team participation rejoicing with high skill and a decided playmaking presence for players who could excel and perform well with others and for Puskás there is a centerstage to that praise being recognized as one of the 'very greatest players' the sport has ever seen.
2069 Elo points, 20th Century High ***** Greatest Franchise Team Of The 20th Century ***** 1961 Real Madrid
On March 19, 1961 the world great Real Madrid team with 'Pancho' Puskás became statistically the 'Greatest Ever' of the 20th Century.
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--- Match Starting Lineup --- Puskás, Di Stéfano, Gento, Del Sol, Santamaría, Vidal, Canario, Casando, Pachín, Marquitos, Vicente
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Ferenc Puskás' unequalled modern inside No. 10 long forward sublime game of winding ways through alley and trick, the heavy stride and the hard prelude run with the thunderstrike cannonball with teams of magnificent stern array (Budapest Honvéd, Hungary, Real Madrid) who rained goalscoring aura yielding to goalscoring aura as his co-led teams waged contention in 17 huge tournaments (1.00 goal/career tournament match with 73 goals in 73 matches) and 10 national championships that attracts to crush with powerful ardors. With sweet buds of speed and acceleration purposing the playmaking jazz and conjuring the forward missioning winning spirit of gladness as fierce artificer from offensive zone to defensive zone Puskás satisfied the game's full relish, bandwidth and circumference to supersede all teams into the maximally élite record-books of all time rank.
Engaging defensive lines with aplomb in the midst of it all is Puskás as the No. 10 forward fronting the surging tumult ahead where his keener cannonball lightnings flashed who came across with the big-play deft passing who flung the ball to the most difficult spots on the springing grass with chisel legwork to rebuild it as Puskás had gone to bring again 'greatness' for the most fond imponderable dream. His potent, felt, interior command has the quality to strike deep as a marvelous athletic pillar affirming the natural passing scheme that drummed and hummed with a famous familiarity, scoring goals with his many assists that imbues Budapest Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid with a particular genius of hale crushing charms. There is a Midas inexhaustible fund of buoyancy as Puskás help build one superb team after another with a remarkable talent through him the current and index of three risen great master teams that will rank as defining sport-changing powerhouses equal or better than the greatest sides known as the master key player with three of the highest peaks ever assembled.
We can view the 20th Century sport's evolution with perspective with Puskás as the great master player whose teams most completely indicated the ways and the times in which football turned from the traditions of much earlier times to the new mode in the second half of the century. Only he holds the proud distinction of being on three of the most fulsomely hailed teams: mighty Budapest Honvéd (1949-1956), Hungary (1945-1956) and Real Madrid (1958-1966), the latter two have remained for many the greatest teams to be seen in all the records of the sport and the two principal and paramount teams of all time.
Three of his great matches ('The Match of the Century', the 1954 World Cup Final and Real Madrid 7, Eintracht Frankfurt 3) were massive, elemental, becoming widely famous foundational wonder games of the age demanding depth and insight. In these games where Puskás was the chief participant, the 6-3 win over England where he scored two goals and made two more, the 1954 World Cup Final match (the world championship decider where he opened and closed the scoring with two legitimate goals) that lived under a cloud of suspicion and huge controversy and the 7-3 win over Eintracht Frankfurt in the spring of 1960 where he scored four goals are among the best ever done.
The velocity and phenomena of Ferenc '(Öcsi' or 'Sonny' pronounched: 'Uhchee') Puskás, the astute navigator with giants with Hungary from 1947-1956 and with 1958-1966 Real Madrid was the prize-winning sport hero who was on the dial with the serene power of his on-field generalship as a player of superior craft always acting as the true helm of the attack who pressed deep inside with insights and who plays with a profound magical crackling irrepressible 'total-team' game that moved from prim goalscoring who fired goals' certainties (802 total goals in 792 official matches | 1.01 goals / career match) to his idyllic playmaking élan that magnified his on-field greatness.
Mustering game-altering top level scores of the quality of the first and all time greatest American baseball player icon Babe Ruth (the 'Bambino' who scored a world-record 714 homeruns) Puskás never did acclimate to using his nondominant right foot for much except to dribble and he also scored few goals with his head. Footballs warm, break and crackle at his feet with dazzling masteries of swiftness and precision as somebody who lost tough clinging opponents by something he was prized and was renowned by, who upon the sylvan scene on the wide pitch gave the great thunderstone left-footed matchless resplendent hot levitating goal-striking cannonball that Puskás is still widely considered the greatest goal-shooter who has ever played the game.
Considered in relation to any national team on the promontory of all time rank of extraordinary production Puskás was the leader and captain of the magical Hungarian 'Golden Team', the postwar re-inventing renaissance side that glows appraisable as statistically the 'Greatest Ever' (all time high 2232 Elo points); and when faith, hope, and promise around his determination's totem was needed after the 1956 Hungarian Revolt and Revolution he became the star main goalscorer at star-studded Real Madrid that outlined a great team that became the 'Greatest Ever' club franchise in the 20th Century (20th Century high 2069 Elo points). He arrived to his second stunning career and this new powerful Real Madrid team after languishing in exile out of shape, overweight and without much practice in Italy and Spain aged 31 at a rounding time when most players think of retirement.
Before Puskás Real Madrid had won the first three European Cups after the competition opened. After his arrival and on his retirement the Real Madrid team would win three more European Cups plus two runner-up silver medals in the tournament and a top division 'world championship' in 1960 after eight years of service with the top rated franchise of the 20th Century. By his honored retirement in 1966 it could be well said that Puskás had journeyed through statistical realms as the greatest ever offensive 'total-team' bandwidth power rocket player (1.48 Goals + Assists / 90 minutes) who has ever lived after a 22-year unprecedented career, road of adventure and life on the pitch who leaves all great on-field teams solved having beat every mountain tower team with sports all time gloria with a prodigious vaunt of goals united to a near unreachable number of assists.
National Top Division League Scorers: Imre Schlosser (417 goals in 1928) ----> Ferenc Puskás (511 goals in 1966) ----> Cristiano Ronaldo (512 goals in 2023) International Federation of Football History & Statistics - Wikipedia National Teams Scorers: Imre Schlosser (59 goals in 1927) ----> Ferenc Puskás (60 to 83 goals from 1953 to 1956) ----> Mohamed Mokhtar (84 to 89 goals from 1980 to 1985) Players with 100+ Caps and 30+ International Goals (rsssf.org) National Team Appearances: Severino Minelli (80 appearances in 1956) ----> Ferenc Puskás (81 to 83 appearances in 1956) ----> Billy Wright (84 to 105 appearances from 1956-1959 and first to accomplish 100 national matches) |
' The Greatests '
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The very famous national sports superstar 'Öcsi' Puskás enjoying the good time high successes of the team with classic charms of musical acccompaniment in Hungary. |
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2232 Elo points, All-Time High ***** Greatest National Team Of All Time ***** 1954 - 1956 Hungary
On July 4, 1954 the world great Hungary team with 'The Galloping Major' Puskás became statistically the 'Greatest Ever'.
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--- Match Starting Lineup --- Puskás, Kocsis, Hidegkuti, Bozsik, Czibor, Grosics, Lantos, Buzánszky, Lóránt, Zakariás, Tóth
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Under the coaching tutelage of world renowned Béla Guttmann in the 1947-1948 Budapest Kispest team, Guttmann's only management year at Kispest after replacing Ferenc Puskás Sr. as coach before it became the Army sponsored Honvéd in 1949, Puskás would have his most advanced and breakout prolific scoring year with 50 goals in 31 league matches to lead all players in the world. |
Under a radio and newly live televised age of roaring cheers and whistles of the greatest ever sides known, wholly in the midst of goalscoring prowess shouts three dynasties, Budapest Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid that forever changed and revolutionized and dominated football and amazing Puskás, needful to teams as elemental gist and key heaver, became the greatest top level offensive player of the ages. And yet no action of any contemporary or other future player is as so well valuably efficient as the incomparable skills of Puskás.
With bursts of speed whose thoughts were summer lightning on the field with a waltz tune of expert control a strong scoring flair plays ever through them for teams have found nothing mightier than Puskás. Puskás graces teams with octaves of unique skills and unimpeachable long big-play deft passing who brings the new wellspring and style to the association sport to help produce immense electric teams that grew athletically great and far more astonishing from what anyone supposed. Puskás was extrovert, in him drifts of great pace and a daring highly competitive genius. He was a rigorous player who showed like a banner his resilient and contriving wit who was possessed with every and all ingenuity that his keen brain matched his otherworldly accuracy to orient invigorating situations as the whole splendidly cavalier well-wheeled high scoring landscape rang and Victory looks gigantically up.
Across it all in his total 719 official career top level matches Puskás-led teams held the banner true of a supreme emblematic figure of what most considered the qualities of an ideal team player to be and in vigorous participations piled on the triumphs with every team he was on scoring 3.106 goals/career match as day occasions for Budapest Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid ordinarily became one-sided swept avalanching débâcles and tour de force routs with a win margin of +1.67 goals. With the broad width and stage of world international football with Hungary where famous heralded games exacts long devotions from 1945-1956 in 83 'full internationals' the Hungarian teams that featured Puskás scored 337 goals to average 4.06 goals with a average win margin of +2.61 goals.
With Puskás the air is blue, crisp and prodigal and filled with victory's perfume with the three teams Puskás was on broadening outward as they crossed and re-crossed the pitch calling out for gain and in the activity and destiny of eleven performers where the very good, the best and the legended move fantastically, the art is long, turning loose the system of practiced skills for the new maneuver and the unconsciously coordinated acts and upsprang the near perfect team.
With teams of indeed mighty legitimate Olympian scope, match after match with strict inscrutable élan with scoring aura yielding to aura the three teams Puskás played on sparkle hot, outlasting all and were not detainable, kept creations at ease and moved more ways than one amid the palings of their rivals. All fashion of opposing defending unable to douse the old witty one-two-three as Puskás chanced upon the spot and with his rotund body's full consent rend open the candescent heat, the unavoidable Puskás straight beam cannonball sizzling inside over decades of the thoroughly dominant.
It is no more in the legends than as if in some colossal sports drama all along postwar history everywhere on tournaments' geography and conning the new times from the large Cold War politics of the late 1940s, the entire soccer revolution made real by a new race of outdoor athletes with the 1949-1956 'Magical Magyars' to 1958-1966 Real Madrid's peerless compositions, top-flight football seemed to culminate to its crowning stage after its re-invention and set records still altogether unreached. There among 20th Century lanes and paths at forward inside-left all postwar and 'modern football' took its cadence from Ferenc Puskás as the game found the tremendous power rocket player as the captain of the near invincible Hungarian 'Golden Team' that pronounced 'total-team' 'socialist football' chic and outmoded it all and as the key goalscorer at Real Madrid, Puskás' extraordinary double career flashing between gold levels presided over dream teams of the most elevated players and illustrated what it was to play the game accurately as a vision of joy and perfection.
During a busy decade of a difficult rebuilding world in the postwar era in the arc light and formative glow of nascent mass media with a global reach and increasingly networked newswires at the dawn of live television that meet audiences as never before made possible a new kind of connectedness and a new kind of culture that is called 'popular culture'. Around this time Puskás became the game's first superstar both at league and in the world game who foreruns the likes of Alfredo Di Stéfano, Pelé, Johan Cruyff, Diego Maradona and it was Puskás who first spoke to and for this new era as his 'Golden Team' re-invented the game and telecommunications effectively shrank the world.
Mentally striding in to take the lead Puskás became an expert in the management of matches that revealed his calling as the darling 'golden boy' of the regime in communist Hungary. Many thought that no one had a keener relish for the texture of the game than Puskás whose agile intellect came with a precocious talent at an early age making the national team all of eighteen as a supreme possessor with a heroic scoring indulgence on the ball that succeeded in catching the eye of Europe.
Much of what Puskás would come to stand for was determined long before his playing days at Real Madrid. Before the 'Golden Age' of soccer in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s properly declared itself, Puskás, armed with his rhapsodic talent, matchless whistling fastball and insights in the Budapest Kispest team before he reached ripe manhood's brink of twenty-one years showed his true worth scoring 50 goals in 31 matches in the league to lead all players in the world. At present by the 1948-year Puskás had set the current of opinion that he had qualified as one of the elites in the game. His well-known journey at Kispest-Honvéd saw Puskás score 358 goals out of his 350 games that effected an immense enlargement for the club's international prestige and elaborated a climax of Budapest Honvéd as the finest club side in the world before Real Madrid and the Brazilian Santos. Already an initial career like this would have culminated with a first entry into Europe's pantheon of all time greats.
He is both extraordinary in the theme of his world-famed classics that are among the most colorful parts of the mid-century and in the amassed work of his throughput and succeeded in catching the flavor of a time and place in European history the sport shall never see again. The career of Puskás that stretched across the whole modern post-war period showed how a truly great player can reflect the varying developments of his age yet maintain an unmistakable individual sovereignty, unique and inimitable.
He had intuition with extra sensory awareness to grasp other sides' nuances with novel thinking and an encompassing eye in less than fifteen minutes of play by issuing a stream of instructions to align the team and in his younger years often yelling at players many years his senior as a 'playing coach’ solving ever-changing game vistas on the run. He had legendary assured urbanity and a smartness during the match's commotion and flux joined to the feel and rippling strength of his left leg that prized out the tightest defenses from distance done with a rocketed ball of honed dexterity.
A defining moment: the un-whistled and uncalled illegal flagrant rough mid-air interference foul on goalkeeping Gyula Grosics by Hans Schäfer in the 18th minute that tackled and brought down Grosics to the turf. Since Grosics was unfairly tackled the ill-guarded goal was scored upon by Rahn seconds later to re-make an ascendant 2-0 Magical Magyars lead into a heavily contested 2-2 match in the highest rated match of the 20th Century, the 1954 World Cup Final title game. |
Puskás was a match symphony-maker, a conspicuous student of the game and a teacher of athletes and his presence was soon felt at Budapest Kispest in the 1945-46 year where he scored 36 goals in 34 matches as a future player that legend could sing of as a paragon of vitality bringing happiness directed by a wily uomo universale of renaissance dreams who became the sport's first world superstar.
Very few players had careers or stories to tell quite like Puskás for a number of occasions. In all that reporting of his career a common thread in playing days that made him unique, simply that there is an air of the precious about almost all that he did, a glinting Midas touch, everything he touched on the field turned to gold in his life's work. Puskás only played on three teams: Budapest Kispest-Honvéd, Hungary and Real Madrid, three teams that were to take turns in dominating his life amid their greatest successes in golden periods of their own with an elegant yet fiery competitor with gracious outgoing gentlemanly manners whose career crackled with re-inventive life.
After three leading parts of the gigantic career oeuvre of Puskás and beyond as one who distinguished himself favorably in managing teams on five continents, Puskás' life runs into many stories and Puskás' own personal journey is an entire odyssey. Not far from the roars of duty on the pitch Puskás was also somebody famously known to a great many people having managed on five continents and his coaching career takes a different telling.
How little the formative years sometimes tell about an individual's potentialities is exemplified by the fact that Puskás, who was known as Öcsi ('Sonny' or 'Little Kid Brother') in his youth were he mastered the game with a liberated intelligence and talent during the hardscrabble interwar years would lead a life of creativeness and wit, be involved in three of the most stupendous matches of the century from start to finish immersed in the atmosphere of the sensational that caused him to be ranked among the most celebrated players of all time and become a great sports figure of the classic past.
A whole generation will best remember Puskás as a great master player associated with five prestigious European Cup ('Champions League')' title matches while paired with iconic club players Alfredo Di Stéfano and Francisco Gento at Real Madrid. Playing alongside Di Stéfano and Gento from 1958-1964 Puskás was primarily the best and most effective top-flight goalscorer on the 20th Century's highest ranked top league team. By their insatiable passion and many dashes of brilliance showing more always in leading men by their hardworking exampling talents made these three energetic masters of the sport all time eminences. With three such famous steerers piloting events who met problems and dealt with solutions to set things right and doing the kinds of things that others could not Real Madrid reached heights with an insuperable pre-eminence over teams at the Bernabéu Stadium that defined the greatest league 'home-field advantage' in history after Puskás surpassed England's 90-year old legacy in 1953.
Another generation will joyously recall Puskás for his goals and enduring exploits with Budapest Honvéd and the Hungarian 'Golden Team' while teamed with Sándor Kocsis and Nándor Hidegkuti. There alongside Hidegkuti and Sándor Kocsis, Puskás formed the most powerful and greatest scoring trio and winning partnership in all international soccer history. Superlative big wins with Hungary in 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955 and 1956 became a revelation to the people of some great ecstatic sports order and were so shapely and heralded victories a whole new reinvented vision, an entire new conception seemed contained in those games that football became stronger, richer and more varied.
Hungary 2 : 0 Yugoslavia August 2, 1952 in Helsinki. (Puskás 70' + Assist | Czibor 88' ) 1952 Summer Olympic Final
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Hungary 3 : 0 Italy May 17, 1953 in Rome. (Hidegkuti 41' | Puskás 63', 68') 1948-1953 Central European International Cup Final |
Hungary 9 : 0 South Korea June 17, 1954 in Zürich. 1954 World Cup group. (Puskás 12', 89' | Kocsis 24', 36', 50' | Palotás 75', 83' | Czibor 59' | Lantos 18') Largest Win Margin In World Cup History | +9 Goals. |
Hungary 8 : 3 West Germany June 20, 1954 in Basel. 1954 World Cup group. (Puskás 17' | Kocsis 3', 21', 69', 78' | Hidegkuti 52', 54' | J. Tóth 75') West Germany's All Time Heaviest Loss
The captain of the unstoppable 'Golden Team', Puskás and Fritz Walter in the pennants exchange before the 8-3 emphatic rout of West Germany in group play at the 1954 World Cup. The 8-3 win is the all time heaviest loss for West Germany and was then a World Cup record for most combined goals. |
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' The Magical Magyars | The Mighty Magyars | The Magnificent Magyars '
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