| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 18 November 1894[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Budapest,Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 6 February 1945 (aged 50) | ||
| Place of death | Budapest,Hungary | ||
| Position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1911–1919 | BTC Budapesti | ||
| 1920–1923 | Ferencváros | 19 | (8) |
| 1925–1926 | Spezia(player-manager) | 13 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 1914 | Hungary | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1925–1926 | Spezia | ||
| 1926–1928 | Carrarese | ||
| 1928–1929 | Viareggio | ||
| 1929–1931 | Salernitana | ||
| 1931 | Catanzaro | ||
| 1931 | Salernitana | ||
| 1931–1933 | Catanzaro | ||
| 1933–1936 | Catania | ||
| 1936–1938 | Taranto | ||
| 1938–1939 | Atalanta | ||
| 1939–1940 | Lazio | ||
| 1940–1941 | Salernitana | ||
| 1941–1942 | Catania | ||
| 1942 | R.S.T. Littorio | ||
| 1942–1943 | Roma | ||
| 1943–1944 | Újpest | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Géza Kertész (18 November 1894 – 6 February 1945), also known asKertész IV, was aHungarianfootballer and manager fromBudapest. He is most noted for his career as a football manager in Italy at clubs such asLazio,Roma andAtalanta.
DuringWorld War II, Kertesz returned from Italy to Hungary in 1943, when he was recalled to serve as lieutenant-colonel in theHungarian Army[2] in training role. In liaison with theAmerican secret service he set up a clandestine resistance network with former teammateIstvan Toth which rescued many Hungarian partisans and Jews from deportation to Nazi concentration camps during German occupation andArrow Cross Party rule, sometimes disguising himself as a GermanWehrmacht officer for cover. He was denounced to theGestapo by an informer for sheltering Jews and was executed atBudapest alongside Toth on 6 February 1945, a few days before the city was liberated by the Soviet forces.[3][4]
His body and that of Toth were reburied together with honour atKerepesi Cemetery, Budapest, in April 1946.[4]
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