Adalbert Kovács

Adalbert Kovács
Personal information
Date of birth	28 September 1920
Place of birth	Timișoara, Romania
Date of death	August 1999 (aged 78)
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
1933–1934	Electrica Timișoara
1934–1939	Chinezul Timișoara
Senior career*
Years	Team
1939–1940	Chinezul Timișoara
1942–1945	Kaposvár
1946–1953	Flamura Roșie Arad
1954–1956	Locomotiva Timișoara
Total
International career
1947–1948	Romania
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 25 January 2020

Adalbert Kovács (28 September 1920 – August 1999) was a Romanian football player who played as a striker.^[1]^[3]

Club career

Adalbert Kovács was born on 28 September 1920 in Timișoara, Romania.^[1]^[2]^[3] He started to play football at the junior squads of Electrica Timișoara, afterwards going to play for Chinezul Timișoara where he also started to play at senior level, afterwards going to play in Hungary at second league side, Kaposvár.^[1]^[2]^[3] On 9 March 1947, Kovács made his Divizia A debut, playing for Flamura Roșie Arad in a 5–1 victory in which he scored a hat-trick against Libertatea Oradea, scoring a total of 13 goals in 13 appearances, helping the club win the 1946–47 Divizia A title.^[1]^[2]^[3] In the following season he helped the club win The Double, scoring 19 goals in 26 Divizia A matches, including managing he and teammate Iosif Stibinger to score each a hat-trick on 7 March 1948 in a 6–1 away victory against CSCA București, it was the first time that two players from the same team scored a hat-trick in a Divizia A match and he also scored his team's first goal in the 3–2 victory at the 1948 Cupa României final against CFR Timișoara, thus helping Flamura Roșie Arad win the first Cupa României in the club's history.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5] He won another title with the club in 1950 when he played three games and helped The Old Lady win another Cupa României in 1953.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[6] After 7 seasons spent at Flamura Roșie Arad, Adalbert Kovács went to play for Locomotiva Timișoara where he made his last Divizia A appearance in a 6–0 loss against CCA București, having a total of 172 Divizia A games played and 80 goals scored.^[1]^[2]^[3] He died at the end of the summer of 1999 at age 78.^[2]^[3]

International career

Adalbert Kovács played three games at international level for Romania, all of them taking place on the Giulești Stadium from Bucharest, making his debut under coach Ferenc Rónay on 21 September 1947 in a friendly which ended with a 6–2 loss against Czechoslovakia.^[7]^[8] His following game was also a friendly which ended 0–0 against Poland in which he came as a substitute in the 56th minute in order to replace Ladislau Incze II.^[7]^[9] Kovács's last appearance for the national team took place on 2 May 1948 in a 1–0 loss against Albania at the 1948 Balkan Cup.^[7]^[10]

Honours

Flamura Roșie Arad

Divizia A: 1946–47, 1947–48, 1950^[1]
Cupa României: 1947–48, 1953^[5]^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l Adalbert Kovács at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h "O sută de ani de la nașterea unui mare campion al UTA-ei – Adalbert Kovacs" [One hundred years since the birth of a great UTA champion - Adalbert Kovacs] (in Romanian). Glsa.ro. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Adalbert Kovács at National-Football-Teams.com
^ "Breviar sportiv arădean după 65 de ani: Imaginaţi-vă azi un Steaua - UTA 1-6!" [Aradean sports round after 65 years: Imagine today a Steaua - UTA 1-6!] (in Romanian). Liga2.prosport.ro. 7 February 2013. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Romanian Cup - Season 1947 - 1948". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b "Romanian Cup - Season 1953". RomanianSoccer. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Adalbert Kovács". European Football. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
^ "Romania - Czechoslovakia 2:6". European Football. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^ "Romania - Poland 0:0". European Football. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
^ "Romania - Albania 0:1". European Football. Retrieved 25 January 2020.