He has always stayed that simple, good-hearted human being who he had been before the world got to know him as one of the greatest football talents of all times. Puskás Öcsi (Öcsi means ’Little Brother’ in Hungarian, that’s how he was called here in his homeland with lots of affection) was team captain of the legendary Hungarian ’Golden Team’(Aranycsapat) also called ’The Mighty Magyars**’ which won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952. And this same team defeated England by 6:3 in 1953 in the Wembley stadium and also in the return match in 1954 here in Hungary where our team trounced them again, by 7:1. Puskás scored 2 goals on both matches.

It was very interesting about Puskás Öcsi that he was a leftfooted/leftlegged footballer and had a such a sharp logic for the game that he could think well ahead and then realize all those actions on the field before the footballers of the other team could find out about what had actually happened.

He scored 84 goals in 85 international matches.

His results (Source: Wikipedia (Hungarian version
http://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pusk%C3%A1s_Ferenc )

As a player:

Olympic champion (1952)
World championship silver medalist (1954)
European Cup winner (1953)
5-times Hungarian champion
4-times Hungarian ’goal king’
6-times Spanish champion (part of Real Madrid)
84-times Hungarian National Team member
3-times winner of Champions' European Cup
2-times ’goal king’ of Champions' European Cup

His work as a coach:

1966-1967 Alicante Spain
1967-1967 San Francisco Gales USA
1968-1969 Vancouver Royals Canada
1969-1974 Panathinaikos FC Athene Greece
1974-1975 FCL Murcia Spain
1975-1977 Colo Colo Chile
1978-1979 AEK Athene Greece
1979-1980 El Masri Port Said Egypt
1984-1985 El Masri Port Said Egypt
1985-1986 Sol de América Paraguay
1990-1991 South Melbourne Hellas Greece
1992: dealing with young Hungarian talents in the frame of MLSZ (Hungarian Football Association)-, later international director of MLSZ
April-July 1993: coach of the Hungarian National Team


From 1998 he worked as ’FIFA for SOS Children’s Villages embassador’.
He received the FIFA Order of Merit in 2004 for his talent and his sportsmanship and has been voted by people as The Greatest Footballer Of All Times, preceding such footballers as Pelé or Maradona.


Öcsi Bácsi was 79 years old.





More about him and his life in English:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Pusk%C3%A1s
http://www.fifa.com/en/mens/index/0,2527,125905,00.html?articleid=125905
http://www.uefa.com/uefa/history/associationweeks/association=57/newsId=168329.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/europe/6155766.stm
http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/puskas-intlg.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-puskas18nov18,1,2453964.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california

In German:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferenc_Pusk%C3%A1s





* bácsi = uncle, used to address old man in a kind but respectful way in Hungarian
** Magyars = means ’Hungarians’ in Hungarian