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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lajos Czeizler | ||
| Date of birth | (1893-10-05)5 October 1893 | ||
| Place of birth | Heves,Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 6 May 1969(1969-05-06) (aged 75) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1921–1923 | Vác | 19 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1923–1926 | ŁKS | ||
| 1927–1928 | Udinese | ||
| 1928–1930 | Faenza | ||
| 1930–1931 | Lazio (youth) | ||
| 1935–1936 | ŁKS | ||
| 1940 | Västerås | ||
| 1942–1948 | IFK Norrköping | ||
| 1949–1952 | Milan | ||
| 1953 | Padova | ||
| 1953–1954 | Italy | ||
| 1954–1957 | Sampdoria | ||
| 1957–1959 | Fiorentina | ||
| 1960–1961 | Fiorentina | ||
| 1963–1964 | Benfica | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Lajos Czeizler (5 October 1893 – 6 May 1969) was a Hungarianfootballer and coach. With 11 major titles altogether, he remains one of the most successful football coaches of all time.[citation needed]
Czeizler was born in aJewish family inHeves,Austria-Hungary.[1] He played asgoalkeeper withVác in the Hungarian championship between 1921 and 1923.[2]
He began his coaching career in the 1920s in Poland, inŁódzki Klub Sportowy, where he had between 1923 and 1926 his first coaching experience. After this he spent his first years in Italy, coaching the second division sides ofUdinese andCA Faenza and from 1930 to 1931 the youth ofS.S. Lazio.
From 1935 to 1936 he is coaching ŁKS again before moving to Sweden where his first engagement was in 1940 withVästerås SK. In the Between 1942 and 1948 he had his greatest successes withIFK Norrköping. There he achieved between 1943 and 1948 a record five championships and two national cups in 1943 and 1945.[3] When he led Norrköping to the 1948 championship he became the oldest coach in Sweden to achieve this title. He was then aged 54 years, 8 months and 1 day. The record has since been lost to trainerConny Karlsson withHelsingborgs IF.
After his time in Sweden he returned to Italy where he ledA.C. Milan in 1951 tochampionship honours and a win in theLatin Cup, an annual tournament of the best teams from France, Spain, Portugal and Italy – an important contest in the absence of any other European competition. He coached theItaly national team in the1954 FIFA World Cup. In the season 1961 he coachedFiorentina until January,[4][5] and later, in June, this club won theCoppa Italia, defeating Lazio 2–0 in the final.
In the 1963–64 season he tookS.L. Benfica to their fourth double ofchampionship andcup of Portugal, and set a club record of 103 goals in 26 league matches.[6]
IFK Norrköping
Milan
Benfica
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