.jpg) Plattkó in 1946 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1898-12-02)2 December 1898 | ||
| Place of birth | Budapest,Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 2 September 1983(1983-09-02) (aged 84) | ||
| Place of death | Santiago, Chile | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1916–1919 | Vasas[1] | 29 | (3) |
| 1919 | Wiener AF | 7 | (0) |
| 1920 | Vasas[1] | 3 | (0) |
| 1921–1922 | KAFK | ||
| 1922–1923 | MTK[1] | 17 | (0) |
| 1923–1930 | Barcelona[2] | 17 | (0) |
| 1930 | Ripensia Timișoara | ||
| 1931 | Onuba | ||
| 1932 | Basel | ||
| 1933 | Mulhouse | ||
| International career | |||
| 1917–1923 | Hungary | 6 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1932 | Basel (assistant) | ||
| 1932–1933 | Mulhouse | ||
| 1933–1934 | Roubaix | ||
| 1934–1935 | Barcelona | ||
| 1935 | Académico do Porto | ||
| 1936 | USA Olympic | ||
| 1936–1937 | Venus București | ||
| 1937 | Dacia Unirea Brăila | ||
| 1937 | Gloria CFR Galați | ||
| 1938 | Cracovia[3] | ||
| 1938–1939 | Celta Vigo | ||
| 1939–1940 | Colo-Colo | ||
| 1940 | River Plate | ||
| 1941 | Colo-Colo | ||
| 1941–1945 | Chile | ||
| 1942 | Magallanes | ||
| 1942–1943 | Santiago Wanderers | ||
| 1943–1944 | River Plate (techn. director) | ||
| 1949 | Boca Juniors | ||
| 1950 | Chile | ||
| 1953 | Colo-Colo | ||
| 1953 | Chile | ||
| 1955–1956 | Barcelona | ||
| 1965 | San Luis | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Ferenc Plattkó (2 December 1898 – 2 September 1983), also known asFranz orFrancisco (in Spain his mothers maiden name "Kopiletz" has been appended according to local customs) was a Hungarianfootballer andmanager. During the 1910s and 1920s he played as agoalkeeper forVasas SC, WAC Vienna,KAFK Kula,MTK Hungária FC,FC Barcelona, andRecreativo de Huelva.
He subsequently worked as a coach in Europe and South America, most notably withFC Barcelona,Colo-Colo,River Plate,Boca Juniors andChile. Plattkó was an earlyFC Barcelona great and was a team-mate ofPaulino Alcántara,Josep Samitier andSagibarba. His bravery as a goalkeeper was immortalized byRafael Alberti in the poemOda A Platko. After retiring as a player he returned to the club as a coach on two occasions (1934–35, 1955–56). Plattkó played 6 matches for theHungarian national team between 1917 and 1923.[4]
Born inBudapest, Hungary, Plattkó began his career as a goalkeeper in his hometown of Budapest with local clubVasas SC in 1916. After a brief spell in Austria atWiener AF in 1919, he returned to Vasas until the end of the 1919–20 season. Between 1917 and 1923, Plattkó also played six games forHungary. In the 1921–22 season he was the coach and goalkeeper[5] forKAFK fromKula, Serbia where he won the Subotica subassociation championship earning promotion to the Second League of theKingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.[6] In 1922 MTK played two friendlies againstBarcelona. Both games finished as 0–0 draws and Barcelona, impressed with Plattkó offered him a contract.
Plattkó replaced the highly ratedRicardo Zamora, but soon established himself as a great in his own right. He spent seven years at Barcelona between 1923 and 1930. During that time he won sixCampionat de Catalunya titles, threeCopa del Rey and the first everLa Liga title.[7] The poemOda A Platko came about following the Copa del Rey final in 1928. Barcelona took three games to beatReal Sociedad and during the first encounter on 20 May,Rafael Alberti was so impressed with the bravery of Plattkó that he later wrote the poem in his honour. Plattkó finished his playing career atRecreativo de Huelva and retired as a player in 1931. He soon began his career as a coach, working in France withMulhouse (1932–33) andRacing Club de Roubaix (1933–34), before returning to Barcelona as a coach for the 1934–35 season. Despite guiding the club to anotherCampionat de Catalunya, the following season he was replaced byPatrick O'Connell. After two decades away from the club Plattkó was reappointed coach of Barcelona for the 1955–56 season. During this season the club, inspired byLadislao Kubala andLuis Suárez, won 10 consecutive La Liga games in a row. The record remained unbeaten until 2005. Despite this run Barcelona only managed to finish second in La Liga behindAthletic Bilbao and Plattkó was replaced the following season.
During the two decades away from Barcelona established himself as a coach in South America. In 1939, during the first of three spells atColo-Colo he guided the club to theChilean Primera División. In 1940 he had a spell in charge ofRiver Plate in Argentina before he returned to Chile and Colo-Colo in 1941, winning a second Chilean Primera División. In 1941 he took charge of theChile national team and continued as national team manager until 1945, coaching the team at both theSouth American Championship in both1942 and1945. During 1942 he also coached two other Chilean clubs,Club Magallanes andSantiago Wanderers. In 1949 he coachedBoca Juniors and in 1953 he returned to Colo-Colo for a third time and won a third Chilean Primera División.
For the 1955–56 season he returned to Barcelona with which he became runner up in the league one point behind Athletic Bilbao. His balance of 22 wins three draws and five defeats had been the best for the club yet. The series of ten straight wins in the league was only outdone underFrank Rijkard in the 2005–06 season. His downfall was a 3–1 defeat on 20 May in the cup quarterfinals against local rivals Español. The club concluded, the relationship between the team and Plattkó was broken, and replaced him for the return match, which ended 4-4, withJosep Samitier.
The next years Plattkó spent in Brazil as talent scout and player observer. later he returned to Chile where in 1965 he took on a last coaching assignment when he took on lowlyfirst division outfitCD San Luis de Quillota from the region ofValparaíso, with which he ended third from the bottom, which however was one up from the previous season.
Ferenc Plattkó also had two brothers,István Plattkó andKároly Plattkó who followed him to Spain and subsequently established themselves as coaches. Esteban coached, among othersReal Valladolid (1928–31, 1934–40),Granada CF (1943–45) andRCD Mallorca while Carlos coachedReal Valladolid (1941–43),Celta de Vigo (1944–46),Girona FC (1948–49) andSporting de Gijón.
Plattkó died inSantiago, Chile on 2 September 1983.[8]
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