Mourning: deceased András Törőcsik

The emblematic player of the purple and white club struggled with serious personal problems, he had to be hospitalized several times due to his alcohol problems. He died on Saturday in the Honvédkórzáz, as a result of pneumonia.

In the second half of the 1970s, he was the favorite football player of Újpest, who won three league titles. "Dance, Törő!" was born as a result of his virtuoso playing and tricks. rhyme. Based on his football skills, he was predicted to have an outstanding career at the international level, but he failed to realize this - partly due to a serious injury.

Törőcsik participated with the Hungarian national team in the 1978 Argentina and 1982 World Championships in Spain, scoring 12 goals in 45 national team matches. Two events marked a break in his career: he was sent off at the first World Cup, as well as his serious car accident in 1979, in which he injured his left hip.

András Törőcsik was born on May 1, 1955 in Budapest. He started playing football at the age of 12 in the BVSC, and was certified by the Újpesti Dózsa in 1974. With the club, he became Hungarian champion in 1975, 1978 and 1979 and also won the Hungarian People's Republic Cup three times (1975, 1982, 1983).

He gave a memorable performance in the European Cup Winners' Cup (KEK) 1983/84 season, in which Újpest reached the quarter-finals.

He moved abroad in 1985, played for one year in the French Montpellier team, and from 1986 he played in Canadian indoor soccer teams (Toronto, North York Rockets). After returning home, in the spring of 1987, he signed a contract with Bp. Honvéd, but did not get a chance to play in a single match there. After that, he first became a player for the second division Bp. Volán and then for the top division MTK-VM, but he was injured in the second match and did not play on the field several times.

He returned to Újpest in 2011 and worked as the association's supply coordinator. His health was not the same at that time, he was in the hospital several times, sometimes for hip surgery, sometimes for head injuries.

The footballer, who was also referred to as the last Hungarian world star, was chosen by the Hungarian magazine FourFourTwo in the 21st place among the 50 best Hungarian players of all time. Several books have been written about him, Ferenc Szabó: Dance on, Törő! (1970), Sándor Péter Rokob-Zombori: A Törő (1995) and Zoltán Egressy: Lila csík, behér csík (2015).

(Source: Source: sportrajongo.hu, mti/Photo: pixabay)