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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1912-02-26)26 February 1912 | ||
| Place of birth | Brassó,Austria-Hungary | ||
| Date of death | 9 September 1992(1992-09-09) (aged 80) | ||
| Place of death | Budapest, Hungary | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1922–1929 | Braşovia Braşov | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1929–1937 | CA Oradea | 106 | (68) |
| 1937–1940 | Venus București | 61 | (47) |
| 1940–1945 | Nagyváradi AC | 103 | (69) |
| 1945–1946 | Ferar Cluj | 3 | (0) |
| 1946–1949 | MTK Hungária | 83 | (35) |
| Total | 329 | (192) | |
| International career | |||
| 1931–1939[1] | Romania | 48 | (31) |
| 1940–1948[1] | Hungary | 13 | (4) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1946 | Ferar Cluj | ||
| 1950–1951 | Szolnoki MÁV | ||
| 1951–1953 | Szombathelyi Haladás | ||
| 1953–1954 | Pécsi Lokomotív | ||
| 1954–1957 | Komlói Bányász SK | ||
| 1957–1959 | Pécsi VS | ||
| 1959–1960 | Gyulai SE | ||
| 1960–1961 | Diósgyőri VTK | ||
| 1963 | Salgótarjáni BTC | ||
| 1964–1971 | Ormosbányai Bányász | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Iuliu Bodola (Hungarian:Bodola Gyula; 26 February 1912 – 9 September 1992[2]) was a Romanian-Hungarianfootballer who played as astriker. He represented both theRomania andHungary national team at internationally level.[1][3] His nickname wasDuduş/Dudus.[4] He is Romania's thirdall-time top goalscorer, and he is also the all-time top goal scorer of theBalkan Cup.
Bodola started his career in 1929 (aged 17) forClubul Atletic Oradea, before joiningVenus București, with whom he was the champion ofDivizia A in1938–39 and1939–40.[5] WhenNorthern Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in August 1940, he preferred to play forNagyváradi AC, and with them he won theNemzeti Bajnokság I in1943–44.[5][6] After the end of thewar, he returned to Romania withFerar Cluj-Napoca, but in 1946 he left again for Hungary joiningMTK, where he lived inBudapest until the end of his life. In November 2008, the Municipal Stadium inOradea was renamed after him, becoming theStadionul Iuliu Bodola.
Bodola was a very prolific scorer for theRomania national team, scoring a then-national record of 31 goals in 48 caps. He andWetzer were the top two goalscorers of the1929–1931 (first) edition of theBalkan Cup (whichRomania won). They scored seven goals each for their country in that tournament alone.[7] He was also part of the Romania team that won the1933 Balkan Cup and1936 Balkan Cup, contributing with two goals in each tournament.[8][9] With 15 goals in the Balkan Cup, he is theall-time top goal scorer in the competition's history. Bodola was the hero of the1936 Friendship Cup, scoring a hat-trick in a 3–2 win overYugoslavia,[10] and with these three goals, he is also theall-time top goal scorer of the Friendship Cup. This was Bodola's third international hat-trick (the first two having come in 1931, in a friendly againstLithuania and in the 1929-31 Balkan Cup againstGreece), which still remains a national record. He played at both the1934 FIFA World Cup and1938 FIFA World Cup for Romania, failing to score a single goal at both tournaments.[11]
WhenNorthern Transylvania became part of the Kingdom of Hungary in August 1940, he decided to play for theHungary national team, scoring on his debut on 1 December 1940 againstItaly in a 1–1 draw.
For a long time (50 years) he was the absolute top scorer of the Romania national football team - with 31 goals. Subsequently, he was overtaken byGheorghe Hagi, and then byAdrian Mutu, both with 35 goals scored. Seven decades after retiring, Bodola still occupies the third place in the all-time top scorers list of the Romania national football team, with 31 goals, the first place being shared by Hagi and Mutu, both having 35 goals in Romania's shirt.
"For me, the greatest Romanian footballer of all time was Iuliu Bodola. NeitherNicolae Dobrin, norGheorghe Hagi could be compared with him."
Bodola died inBudapest in 1993 (aged 80).
His sonGyörgy Bodola was a Hungarian illustrator.
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Romania | 1931 | 7 | 10 |
| 1932 | 7 | 4 | |
| 1933 | 5 | 2 | |
| 1934 | 3 | 2 | |
| 1935 | 4 | 1 | |
| 1936 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1937 | 8 | 4 | |
| 1938 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1939 | 5 | 2 | |
| Total | 48 | 31 | |
| Hungary | 1940 | 2 | 1 |
| 1941 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1942 | 3 | 1 | |
| 1943 | 4 | 2 | |
| 1948 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 13 | 4 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Romania goals | ||||||
| 1 | 10 May 1931 | Stadionul ONEF,Bucharest, Romania |  Bulgaria | 2–0 | 5–2 | 1929–31 Balkan Cup |
| 2 | 3–1 | |||||
| 3 | 28 June 1931 | Stadion Maksimir,Zagreb, Yugoslavia |  Yugoslavia | 2–1 | 4–2 | 1929–31 Balkan Cup |
| 4 | 4–2 | |||||
| 5 | 26 August 1931 | Makabi Stadionas,Kaunas, Lithuania |  Lithuania | 1–0 | 4–2 | Friendly |
| 6 | 2–0 | |||||
| 7 | 4–2 | |||||
| 8 | 29 November 1931 | Leoforos Alexandras Stadium,Athens, Greece |  Greece | 1–0 | 4–2 | 1929–31 Balkan Cup |
| 9 | 2–0 | |||||
| 10 | 4–2 | |||||
| 11 | 8 May 1932 | Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania |  Austria Amateurs | 3–0 | 4–1 | 1931–1934 Central European Cup for Amateurs |
| 12 | 12 June 1932 | Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania |  France | 1–0 | 6–3 | Friendly |
| 13 | 6–3 | |||||
| 14 | 28 June 1932 | Beogradski SK Stadium,Belgrade, Yugoslavia | Greece | 3–0 | 3–0 | 1932 Balkan Cup |
| 15 | 11 June 1933 | Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania | Yugoslavia | 3–0 | 5–0 | 1933 Balkan Cup |
| 16 | 4–0 | |||||
| 17 | 30 December 1934 | Leoforos Alexandras Stadium, Athens, Greece | Bulgaria | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1934–35 Balkan Cup |
| 18 | 2–0 | |||||
| 19 | 24 June 1935 | Levski Stadium,Sofia, Bulgaria | Greece | 1–2 | 2–2 | 1935 Balkan Cup |
| 20 | 10 May 1936 | Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania | Yugoslavia | 1–0 | 3–2 | 1936 King Carol's Cup |
| 21 | 2–1 | |||||
| 22 | 3–1 | |||||
| 23 | 17 May 1936 | Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania | Greece | 1–0 | 5–2 | 1936 Balkan Cup |
| 24 | 5–2 | |||||
| 25 | 18 April 1937 |  Czechoslovakia | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1937–38 Eduard Benes Cup | |
| 26 | 4 July 1937 | Stadion ŁKS,Łódź, Poland |  Poland | 3–1 | 4–2 | Friendly |
| 27 | 8 July 1937 | Makabi Stadionas,Kaunas, Lithuania | Lithuania | 2–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 28 | 14 July 1937 | Kadrioru Staadion,Tallinn, Estonia |  Estonia | 1–1 | 1–2 | Friendly |
| 29 | 4 December 1938 | Stadion Letná,Prague, Czechoslovakia | Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | 2–6 | 1937–38 Eduard Benes Cup |
| 30 | 18 May 1939 | Stadionul Venus, Bucharest, Romania |  Latvia | 1–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
| 31 | 4–0 | |||||
| Hungary goals | ||||||
| 1 | 1 December 1940 | Stadio Luigi Ferraris,Genoa, Italy |  Italy | 1–0 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 2 | 1 November 1942 | Üllői úti stadion,Budapest, Hungary |  Switzerland | 1–0 | 3–0 | Friendly |
| 3 | 16 May 1943 | Charmilles Stadium,Geneva, Switzerland | Switzerland | 1–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
| 4 | 3–1 | |||||
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