József Dzurják

József Dzurják (born 2 March 1962) is a Hungarian professional football manager and former player.

Playing career His youth career was at Ikladi Vasas, Jászberényi Lehel, Jászárokszállási Vasas, Békéscsaba, and L. Szabó Hónved SE.

He made his debut in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I in the season 1983–84 playing with Diósgyőri VTK. That season his team ended up relegated and played in Nemzeti Bajnokság II with Dzurják being the league top-scorer two seasons in a raw. This meant that for Dzurják was time to move abroad, signing with the East German 1990 vice-champions Chemnitzer FC, being one of the few foreigners to play in the last season of the DDR-Oberliga. After six months during the winter break, he moved to FK Spartak Subotica where he spend the rest of the season playing in the Yugoslav First League. After this, he returned and played half season with Ferencvaros, before moving again, this time to Cyprus, to play with AC Omonia one and a half seasons. He will return to Hungary and play with III. Kerületi TUE, Vác FC and Diósgyőri VTK before moving to the Maldives in 1996 where he ended his career. He played as a striker.

International career On 13 May 1987, Dzurják received a call on behalf of coach József Verebes to be part of the Hungary Olympic team and played in a game against Spain scoring a goal in the game.

Coaching career After retiring, he initially became a sports journalist at Nemzeti Sport. Then he started his coaching career, first coaching the youth teams of Dunakeszi, BVSC, Rákospalota and the U-17 and U-19 teams of Ferencváros. Then he worked as assistant manager, initially in Hungary at Diósgyőr, Videoton and Zalaegerszeg, and then abroad in Albania, Malaysia and the Maldives, where he won the championship. Since 2012 he has been assistant manager at Diósgyőri VTK.

In the summer of 2014, Dzurják was appointed as manager of Nemzeti Bajnokság III side REAC. He achieved a third place with the team in the central group of the 2014–15 season. However, on 16 October 2015, Dzurják was sacked as the club's manager, with the team at the bottom of the table after ten games of the 2015–16 season.

Honours

As player Diósgyőri VTK Nemzeti Bajnokság II top scorer: 1984–85, 1985–86 Dhivehi League: 2008 Maldives National Championship: 2008