Sándor Cséfay

Sándor Cséfay was a versatile sportsman. From 1919 to 1929 he competed in athletics in the colors of MTE. At the so-called Workers’ Olympics in 1927 and in 1929 he won the pentathlon.

In 1927, at the Prague Workers’ Olympics, became acquainted with the developing sport of handball, and from 1930 he played this new sport on the team of Elektromos. From 1930 to 1941 he won the Hungarian championship 8 times and played 14 times in the Hungarian national team. In 1936 he finished 4th at the Berlin Olympics and two years later 3rd at the World Championships.

Cséfay was not only enthusiastic on the pitch. In 1933, he first proposed the formation of a national handball association, and then became a founding member of the Association of Hungarian Handball Associations. From 1937 to 1945 he was the federal captain of the Hungarian women’s handball team and had the same position for men between 1945 and 1951 and between 1957 and 1958. In 1953, Sándor Cséfay became the first master coach of the sport in Hungary and from 1946 to 1950 he was the editor-in-chief of the Handball Newsletter.