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Lajos Senfeld Tusko

1901 – 1924

Hungarian footballer

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Lived 1901 – 1924 (aged 22). Lajos Senfeld Tusko was a Hungarian association football player.

Lajos Schönfeld, commonly known as Tusko (born 7 September 1901 in Szeged – died 25 June 1924 in Belgrade ) was a Hungarian football goalkeeper.

He was one of the most influential players of BSK Belgrade in the early 1920s and is specially remembered for his die-hard attitude in the pitch.

He began his career in Szeged where he played with Szegedi T.C. mostly in the youth team and occasionally as reserve in the first squad. until 1917 when he joins Ferencvárosi TC where he plays until the end of the First World War. In 1918 because of the hard conditions in his hometown, he leaves Szeged and moved to Novi Sad in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia and joins NAK Novi Sad. and the 1922. That year, despite the interest of numerous clubs, he opted to move to Belgrade and signed with BSK, a team he already knew from the tournament he was a guest in few years earlier, and where he will become one of the main players of the Yugoslav Championship which started in 1923. However, in 1924 he suffered a heavy kidney injury in a clash with an opponent forward in a friendly match between the city selection of Belgrade, for whom he played, and the selection of Lower Austria region. After spending a couple of days in hospital and two surgeries he died. The main local sports newspaper Sport had extensive coverage of the event and concluded the report with the following sentence: "He died like a hero and was buried as a small sports King."

As a result, the Belgrade Football Subassociation created a fund named after him in order to financially support the injured footballers.

He was known in Yugoslav media in his Serbian language name version as Lajoš Šenfeld Tusko, or in Cyrillic as Лajoш Шeнфeлд Tуcкo.

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Who was Lajos Senfeld Tusko?

Hungarian footballer (1901-1924)

When was Lajos Senfeld Tusko born?

Lajos Senfeld Tusko was born on 7 September 1901 in Szeged.

When did Lajos Senfeld Tusko die?

Lajos Senfeld Tusko died on 25 June 1924 in Belgrade.

What was Lajos Senfeld Tusko's occupation?

Lajos Senfeld Tusko was an association football player.

What nationality was Lajos Senfeld Tusko?

Lajos Senfeld Tusko was Hungarian.

Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Lajos Senfeld Tusko

· Wikidata: Q16031309

· DBpedia: Lajos Schönfeld

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