Vilmos Zombori

Vilmos Zombori

Personal information
Date of birth	11 January 1906
Place of birth	Temesvár, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	17 January 1993 (aged 87)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1919–1925	Chinezul Timișoara
1925–1926	Sparta CFR Timișoara
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1926–1929	Chinezul Timișoara
1929–1938	Ripensia Timișoara	44	(5)
1938–1939	ILSA Timișoara
1945–1947	Politehnica Timișoara
International career
1926–1935	Romania	6	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Vilmos Zombori (11 January 1906 in Temesvár, Austria-Hungary (now Romania) – 17 January 1993) was a Romanian footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He was also known as William Zombory.

Biography

At club level, he spent his career in Liga I with Chinezul Timișoara and Ripensia Timișoara.

With the Romania national football team, he was picked by joint coaches Josef Uridil and Costel Rădulescu to play in the 1934 World Cup in Italy. During this competition, the team were eliminated in the first round, after a 2-1 defeat to Czechoslovakia.

Record

As of 5 September 2010, he holds the record for the most goals scored by a goalkeeper in the Romanian First League, with a total of 5.

Honours

Chinezul Timișoara

• Liga I (1): 1926–27

Ripensia Timișoara

• Liga I (4): 1932–33, 1934–35, 1935–36, 1937–38
• Cupa României (2): 1933–34, 1935–36

External links

• Vilmos Zombori at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Vilmos Zombori at National-Football-Teams.com
• An article about Zombori (Romanian)