Gyula Bíró

Gyula Bíró

Personal information
Full name	Gyula Biró
Date of birth	(1890-05-10)10 May 1890
Place of birth	Budapest, Austria-Hungary
Date of death	4 October 1961(1961-10-04) (aged 71)
Place of death	Mexico City, Mexico
Position(s)	Midfielder, Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1905–1916	MTK	135	(17)
International career
1906–1916	Hungary	36	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

The native form of this personal name is Bíró Gyula. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Gyula Bíró (10 May 1890 – 4 October 1961) was a Hungarian Olympic football (soccer) player and manager of Jewish heritage.

Playing career

Club career

Bíró spent his career as player playing for MTK Hungária FC, where he made first team debut in 1905 as the age of 15 as midfielder. Later he also played as forward. He retired from football as player at the age of 26 after playing 135 games in the Hungarian League and scoring 17 goals.

International career

As part of Hungary, Bíró completed at 1912 Olympics.

Coaching career

He started his coaching career with 1. FC Nürnberg in 1920, before moving to Poland in 1923, where he coached Hasmonea Lwów and later the Olympic national team in 1924. From June 1924 until the autumn of 2015 was a coach Warta Poznań. He later returned to Germany as coach of FC Saarbrücken during the 1926–27 season.

Bíró coached FC Baia Mare in Romania in 1930s, before moving to the Spanish squad Atlético Marte. He left Europe before the start of World War II and went to Mexico. He worked as an engineer too in the places where he lived, and he died at the age of 71 in Mexico.

See also

• List of select Jewish football (association; soccer) players

External links

• Profile of Gyula Bíró on JewsInSports.org