18 Facts About Yozhef Sabo

Yozhef Yozhefovich Sabo is a Ukrainian former football player and manager.

From September 1957 to May 1959 Yozhef Sabo played in Class B for Spartak Uzhhorod.

Yozhef Sabo made his name as a player at Dynamo Kyiv, appearing at the club from June 1959 to 1969.

In July 1963 Yozhef Sabo was disqualified for a year for a rough play, but in February 1964 it was changed to a conditional disqualification.

Yozhef Sabo was a member of Dynamo Kyiv when the club in 1961 for the first time gained the Soviet title, breaking the Muscovite spell.

Yozhef Sabo arrived along with two other Uzhhorod players Andriy Havasi and Vasyl Turianchyk.

Yozhef Sabo played in 41 official matches and 35 friendlies.

Yozhef Sabo made his international debut in an away game against Greece on 3 October 1965.

However, Yozhef Sabo became most famous for his coaching, coaching various sides in the late 70s, he has coached Dynamo Kyiv numerous times.

Yozhef Sabo left Dynamo Kyiv by the end of 2007 and has no longer been involved with the club since that time.

Yozhef Sabo has his house near Verecke Pass where he lives with his wife.

At night from 2 onto 3 October 2007 Yozhef Sabo had a heart attack due to which he was immediately taken to hospital.

Yozhef Sabo mentioned that in Moscow he was called fascist, because they knew that his father served in the Royal Hungarian Army during the World War II and later was exiled to Siberia.

Yozhef Sabo later started to learn Russian language after arriving to Kyiv and with a help of a tutor.

Yozhef Sabo was offered to join Komsomol and Communist Party but declined to explain that he could not be communist and stay religious.

Yozhef Sabo said that he became the only Ukrainian who received the medal from the 1966 FIFA World Cup, while at the same time Valeriy Porkujan who played at the Mundial was left without it.

Yozhef Sabo explained that the reason why he refused to travel to Hungary with the Soviet Union national team for the quarter-final game was that he tried to finish his journalist degree in Kyiv University.

In 1960 when Dynamo was playing an away friendly against FC Bayern Munich, Yozhef Sabo said that he was approached by Bayern's goalie Arpad Fazekas who offered him to remain in Munich.