Geza Šifliš

Geza Šifliš

Personal information
Date of birth	(1907-02-25)25 February 1907
Place of birth	Krstur, Austro-Hungary
Date of death	18 November 1948(1948-11-18) (aged 41)
Place of death	Baja, Hungary
Height	1.92 m (6 ft 3+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1927–1929	SAND Subotica
1929–1931	Ferencváros
1937–1938	Újpest
International career
1927–1928	Yugoslavia	5	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Geza Šifliš (Serbian Cyrillic: Геза Шифлиш) (25 February 1907 – 18 November 1948) was a Yugoslav football goalkeeper of Hungarian ethnicity . Nicknamed Gouliver for his height and strength, he played in top league clubs in Yugoslavia and Hungary.

Career

Born in Krstur, Austro-Hungary, (nowadays Srpski Krstur, Serbia), he first appeared playing for SAND Subotica in the 1927 Yugoslav Football Championship. Then in 1929 he moved to Hungary where he first played with Ferencvárosi TC between 1929 and 1931, and then with Újpest FC between 1931 and 1933.

He played 5 matches for the Yugoslav national team, one of them at the 1928 Summer Olympics against Portugal. He played all 5 national team matches while playing with SAND.

He was an ethnic Hungarian, and after joining Hungarian side Ferencváros, he stayed in Hungary. In 1936 he married Hungarian swimmer Magda Szász. He died in Baja, Hungary on 18 November 1948.