Árpád Orbán

Árpád Orbán
	Árpád Orbán in 1965
Personal information
Date of birth	14 March 1938
Place of birth	Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
Date of death	26 April 2008 (aged 70)
Place of death	Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1959–1972	Győri ETO FC
International career
1963–1964	Hungary Olympic
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Hungary
Olympic Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Árpád Orbán (14 March 1938 – 26 April 2008) was a Hungarian Olympic champion football player.^[1]

Career

Orbán, born in Győr, Győr-Moson-Sopron, Hungary, was Hungarian.^[2]^[3] He was Jewish.^[4]^[5]^[6]

He played for Győri ETO FC, Győr, in Hungary.^[1] He won a gold medal in football as part of the Hungarian football team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

^ ^a ^b "Árpád Orbán Biography and Olympic Results". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
^ Bob Wechsler (2008). Day by day in Jewish sports history. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 978-0-88125-969-8. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
^ Ministry of Foreign Affairs Budapest (2000). "Hungarian Winners at the Olympic Games" (PDF). The Big Book of Jewish Sports Heroes. SP Books. ISBN 9781561719075. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
^ Joseph Siegman (2020). Jewish Sports Legends; The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
^ "It was a Big Year for Jews in Sports". The Detroit Jewish News. 1 October 1965.
^ Wechsler, Bob (2008). Day by Day in Jewish Sports History. KTAV Publishing House, Inc. ISBN 9781602800137.