Sándor Bródy

Sándor Bródy started playing football in the Pannonia youth team. From 1902 he played as a central defender for Ferencvárosi TC in Budapest. He played for the club for 12 seasons until 1914, acting as team captain from 1905. During this time he helped them win eight Hungarian championships (1903, 1905, 1907, and 1909-13) and place second four times (1902, 1904, 1908, and 1914). In addition, he won the Hungarian Cup with FTC in 1903, the Silver Ball Cup in 1903, 1904, 1906, 1908, and 1909, and the Challenge Cup in 1909. He scored 17 goals In 307 official games for the club. In 1925, he was named “FTC’s Eternal Champion”.

Bródy won 17 caps between 1906 and 1913, scoring one goal. He was an unused reserve for the 1912 Olympic Games, where the Hungarian team placed fifth as winner of the consolation round.

In World War I, Bródy served in the Austro-Hungarian Army. He was captured by the Russians in March 1915 in Przemyśl (now in Poland) and spent the rest of the war in a Russian POW camp in Siberia until he was released in 1920. He returned to the pitch for two more games before he started coaching IFK Göteborg from Sweden (1921–23). he coached his former club unofficially in the 1925/26 season leading them for another national championship title. In 1937, he returned as coach for just one more match but had to retire after a heart attack. After the occupation of Hungary in 1944 during the World War II, prosecution of Jews was intensified in the country. Bródy was probably arrested and murdered by the Nazis, but details of his fate remain unknown.