György Szepesi
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Szepesi (left) interviewing bantamweight boxing champion Tibor Csík, 1949
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| Born | György Friedländer February 5, 1922 Budapest, Hungary |
| Nationality | Hungarian |
| Alma mater | University of Physical Education, Budapest |
| Occupation | Radio personality, journalist, and sports executive |
György Szepesi (born February 5, 1922) is a Hungarian radio personality, journalist and sports executive.[1][2][3]
Early life
Szepesi was born György Friedländer into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary.[1][4] His father, Miklós Friedländer, died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.[4] Szepesi himself was forced into a labor battalion in Ukraine, which was disbanded in October 1944.[4] Szepesi then returned to Budapest and lived with Gábor Kocsis, a fellow battalion survivor, Kocsis' wife, and their four children, until mid-January 1945, when the German troops retreated from Hungary.[5]
Szepesi received his doctorate in sports history from the University of Physical Education in Budapest.[1] He played basketball for Hungary’s Vác-Újbuda LTC until the Fascists disbanded the club in 1942.[1]
Career
Szepesi has been on Hungarian radio since April 1945.[1][2][6][7][8] He has covered Olympic Games since 1948, and the Football World Cup since 1954.[1]
Szepesi was a Hungarian Olympic Committee member from 1962 to 2000, and was the Executive Committee Chairman for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) from 1982 to 1994.[1] He was Chairman of the Hungarian Football Association (HFA) from 1978 to 1986.[1] He is honorary chairman of the HFA, and an honorary member of FIFA’s Executive Committee.[1]
Honors
Szepesi received the FIFA Medal in 1994, and the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee in 1995.[1][3] He received the Pillar of Achievement Award from the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.[1][2][6]
In 2004, Szepesi was given the Prima Primissa Award in the Hungarian Electronic Press category.[9] In 2005, Szepesi became an honorary citizen of Budapest.[10] That same year, he was decorated with the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.[4]
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External links
- The match of the century, by György Szepesi, Hungarian News and Information Service
- Népesedésünk ma és holnap, by György Szepesi, Kossuth, 1986, ISBN 963-09-2840-X
- Hungarian football rhapsody: 70 years of soccer history, by György Szepesi, Pannonia Press, 1968
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- People from Budapest
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- Sports executives and administrators
- International Olympic Committee members
- Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
