- Ladislau Raffinsky
Football_manager_infobox
playername = Ladislau Raffinsky
fullname = Ladislau Raffinsky
dateofbirth = birth date|1905|04|23|mf=y
dateofdeath = death date and age|1981|07|31|1905|04|23
cityofbirth =Miskolc
countryofbirth =Hungary (Austria-Hungary )
cityofdeath =Cluj-Napoca
countryofdeath =Romania
currentclub =Retired
position =Midfielder
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1924-1925
1925-1927
1927-1929
1929-1931
1931-1933
1933-1935
1935-1940
clubs = Unirea Timişoara
CA TimişoaraChinezul Timişoara
Juventus BucureştiRipensia Timişoara
SK ŽideniceRapid Bucureşti
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1929-1938
nationalteam = Romania
nationalcaps(goals) = 20 (1) [ [http://www.info.frf.ro/index.php?articol=196 Evidence of Ladislau Raffinsky's appearances for Romania national football team] ]
manageryears = 1944-1945
1950
1953
1954
1955
1962-1964
managerclubs = Prahova Ploieşti
Mica Brad
Prahova Ploieşti
Chimica Târnăveni
Aurul Zlatna
Tehnofrig Cluj-NapocaLadislau Raffinsky ( _hu. László Raffinsky) (born
April 23 ,1905 inMiskolc ,Hungary (Austria-Hungary ) - diedJuly 31 ,1981 inCluj-Napoca ,Romania ) was aRomania n football player of Hungarian ethnicity who was a member of Romanian team which participated at the1930 FIFA World Cup inUruguay and1938 FIFA World Cup inFrance . He holds the record for most goals scored in aLiga I match, scoring ten goals in the match between Juventus Bucureşti andDacia Unirea Brăila from 1929-1930 season [ [http://www.ziarultricolorul.ro/articole.php?aid=6879&_nr=305 An article about performances made by Romanian football players or teams, including Raffinsky's] ro icon] .Career
Club Career
Ladislau Raffinsky begun his football career in 1924, playing for Unirea, a football club from
Timişoara . In 1925, Raffinsky moved to CA Timişoara, and then, in 1927, atChinezul Timişoara , one of the Romania's best clubs at that time [Chinezul Timişoara won the Romanian championship six times in a row, beetween 1922 and 1927 ] . But Raffinsky's new club entered in a financial crisis, and for the first time in seven years, Chinezul lost the Romanian championship. Eventually, Raffinsky leaves Chinezul in 1929, signing with Juventus Bucureşti. In 1929-1930 season ofLiga I , Raffinsky won his first title of champion with Juventus. In 1931, he returns to Timişoara, playing for another symbol ofinterwar period romanian football,Ripensia . He leaves Ripensia in 1933, after winning another Liga I - champion title, leavingRomania for playing inCzechoslovakia , at SK Židenice. He returns inRomania after two years, his come-back toBucharest , where he previously played at Juventus, being linked with a move toRapid . He played until 1940 forRapid , winning for three times theRomanian Cup . In 1939, he was arrested, together with another three players of Rapid,Iuliu Baratky ,Ştefan Auer and Ioan Bogdan, because of their win in the final of theRomanian Cup againstVenus Bucharest [ [http://news.4romania.com/Sportivi-romani-in-puscarie_19128.html Sportivi romani in puscarie | news 4 romania ] ] . They were arrested at the order of Gabriel Marinescu, theMinister of Foreign Affairs and the Prefect ofBucharest , who was also the chairman of Venus. [ [http://news.4romania.com/Sportivi-romani-in-puscarie_19128.html An article about Romanian football players who were incarcerated] ] After a huge scandal initiated by the press, the four players were released from the jail after a few days, and Gabriel Marinescu was arrested and executed in 1940. In 1940, Raffinsky retired from his playing career.National Team
Ladislau Raffinsky won twenty caps for the
Romania national football team . His first match for Romania was a defeat, in 1929, against Yugoslavia [ [http://www.info.frf.ro/index.php?articol=195 Evidence of Raffinsky's first match at the national team] ] . At his fourth match for the national team, Raffinsky scored his first and only goal for Romania, against Greece [ [http://www.info.frf.ro/index.php?articol=195 Evidence of Raffinsky's first goal at the national team] ] . In 1930, he was called to the Romanian squad which participated at the firstFIFA World Cup , in Uruguay [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/roem-players-wc.html Romania's squad for 1930 FIFA World Cup] ] . But the chairman of Astra Romana, a company where Raffinsky and his team-mateEmerich Vogl wereoffice workers , interdicted the two players to leave their workplace [ [http://www.agenda.ro/news/news/7000/senzational-2.html An article about Romanian players from Timişoara that played at the World Cup. The story with Raffinsky and his chairman is included] ] . At the intevention of Octav Luchide, the two players eventually took theSS Conte Verde ship toUruguay . In Uruguay, Raffinsky played in the both matches for Romania, against Peru and Uruguay [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/roem-players-wc.html Evidence of the two matches played by Raffinsky at the 1930 FIFA World Cup] ] . In the match against Peru, he was fouled by Plácido Galindo of Peru, who was dismissed for the foul, being the first player ever to be dismissed at theFIFA World Cup . [ [http://www.sport365.ro/Romania_la_primul_Mondial__III_-n15258.html The story of Romania's first match at the World Cup] ] He was also included in the1930 FIFA World Cup Best ElevenMihai Ionescu, Mircea Tudoran, "Fotbal de la A la Z", Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism, 1984] . Raffinsky was not called up again at the national team until 1932, when he played in a 6-3 victory of Romania against France. After another three consecutive matches against Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Raffinsky was not called up until 1937. In 1938, he was called again at aFIFA World Cup , playing for Romania in the two matches against Cuba. These two matches were the last matches at the national team for Raffinsky.International goals
Manager Career
Despite being a successful player, Ladislau Rafinsky was not a great manager. He begun his managerial career in 1944, coaching Prahova Ploieşti. He was the manager of the team from Ploieşti until 1945. He was the manager of another few
Liga II andLiga III clubs, like Mica Brad,Chimica Târnăveni or Aurul Zlatna. In 1962, he moved toCluj-Napoca , being the for two years the manager of Tehnofrig, a small football club of the factory with the same name. In 1964, Ladislau Raffinsky retired from football.References and notes
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