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“I was named that way even in Lőrinc, because, as is my good habit, I am always in the middle of the pitch, at the halfway line, apparently having nothing to do there, but when the ball cames, I bamboo, I always move quickly and unexpectedly and I would often go on to score, and this is the most beautiful way to play football! Even so...”
Ferenc Deák [1]
After three years (1947–50) at Ferencváros, he then moved to rival's Újpest (politics played a role in the move), and during his four years with the purple-whites, he did not stop scoring there either, scoring 53 goals in 77 matches. He spent the last years of his playing career at Spartacus Budapest, VM Egyetértés and Siófok. [1] The "goalkeeper" Deák has a total of 303 league goals, winning three Hungarian League titles, and in 1997 he was awarded the title of goal king of the century in Munich. [1]
In 1999 (posthumously) he received the Hungarian Heritage Award and became an honorary citizen of Pestszentimre-Pestszentlőrinc. Ferenc Deák is remembered for the goblet, which is handed over to the top scorer of the top championship every year, and a wandering cup has also been named after him. In 2007 he took his name in an XVIII. district primary and sports school youth football base. His legacy has been preserved by the Puskás Academy since 2015. His life novel was published in 1992 as The Bamba, with the subtitle The Greatest Goal King of All Time. [1]
Deák Bamba was also excellent in the national team, playing in 20 matches for the Hungary national team from 1946 to 1949, scoring 29 goals, [5] thus having a ratio of 1.45, which is a world record, being just ahead of Just Fontaine, who scored 30 goals in 21 matches for France for a ratio of 1.43.[ citation needed ]
He scored 3 hat-tricks for Hungary, including a poker against Bulgaria in the 1947 Balkan Cup, where the Hungarian team beat the Bulgarians 9-0. This 4-goal haul helped him to be the top goal scorer of the 1947 Balkan Cup with 5 goals as Hungary won the tournament in its first attempt. [6] With 9 goals in the Balkan Cup, he is among the all-time top goal scorers in the competition's history. Then, in 1949, the newly appointed coach, Gusztáv Sebes, judged the excellent center to be politically unreliable (the same politic issues that forced him to leave Ferencváros in 1950), so he expelled him from the team and replaced him with Hidegkuti. Bamba was very worn out, as he missed Hungary's Olympic victory at the 1952 Summer Olympics, the match of the century in 1953, the 1954 World Cup which Hungary nearly won and all the successes that made the Hungarian national team the best team in the world for many years.
No. | Cap | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1 | 1 | 6 October 1946 | Üllői úti stadion, Budapest, Hungary | Austria | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
2 | 2–0 | ||||||
3 | 2 | 30 October 1946 | Stade Émile Mayrisch, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg | Luxembourg | 2–1 | 7–2 | |
4 | 5–2 | ||||||
5 | 6–2 | ||||||
6 | 3 | 17 August 1947 | Üllői úti stadion, Budapest, Hungary | Bulgaria | 1–0 | 9–0 | 1947 Balkan Cup |
7 | 3–0 | ||||||
8 | 7–0 | ||||||
9 | 8–0 | ||||||
10 | 4 | 20 August 1947 | Albania | 3–0 | 3–0 | ||
11 | 6 | 21 April 1948 | Switzerland | 2–3 | 7–4 | 1948–53 Central European Cup | |
12 | 5–3 | ||||||
13 | 7 | 2 May 1948 | Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria | Austria | 2–1 | 2–3 | |
14 | 8 | 23 May 1948 | Üllői úti stadion, Budapest, Hungary | Czechoslovakia | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1948–53 Central European Cup and 1948 Balkan Cup [9] |
15 | 9 | 19 September 1948 | Stadion Wojska Polskiego, Warsaw, Poland | Poland | 4–2 | 6–2 | 1948 Balkan Cup |
16 | 10 | 3 October 1948 | Megyeri úti Stadion, Újpest, Hungary | Austria | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
17 | 11 | 24 October 1948 | Stadionul ONEF, Bucharest, Romania | Romania | 2–0 | 5–1 | 1948 Balkan Cup |
18 | 4–0 | ||||||
19 | 14 | 8 May 1949 | Megyeri úti Stadion, Újpest, Hungary | Austria | 1–0 | 6–1 | 1948–53 Central European Cup |
20 | 4–0 | ||||||
21 | 15 | 12 June 1949 | Italy | 1–1 | 1–1 | ||
22 | 17 | 10 July 1949 | Oláh Gábor utcai Stadion, Debrecen, Poland | Poland | 1–0 | 8–2 | Friendly |
23 | 4–0 | ||||||
24 | 6–0 | ||||||
25 | 7–0 | ||||||
26 | 18 | 16 October 1949 | Praterstadion, Vienna, Austria | Austria | 2–1 | 4–3 | |
27 | 3–1 | ||||||
28 | 19 | 30 October 1949 | Megyeri úti Stadion, Újpest, Hungary | Bulgaria | 1–0 | 5–0 | |
29 | 20 | 20 November 1949 | Sweden | 5–0 | 5–0 | ||
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