{"id":11992,"date":"2025-10-19T18:12:45","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T16:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/?p=11992"},"modified":"2025-10-25T11:42:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:42:33","slug":"igy-kezdodott-az-egesz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/blog\/igy-kezdodott-az-egesz\/","title":{"rendered":"That\u2019s how it all began.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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I was a young Hungarian boy, full of dreams. As a player for Dinamo Vasas \u2013 today known as Vasas SC \u2013 I chased the ball across the field, until in 1956 I turned my back on the blood-red regime, together with two of my teammates, Andr\u00e1s B\u00e9res and Mikl\u00f3s Mikl\u00f3s. For a short time I lived in a refugee camp before settling in Amsterdam. I played several friendly matches for SC Enschede, since according to FIFA regulations, political refugees were not allowed to take part in official games for two years.<\/p>

After completing my studies at the Dutch Film Academy, I began working as a journalist and later as a model \u2013 yet I always knew that the world of sports was my true home. I gradually built up my network, and in time, the professional world came to know me as a sports manager, particularly active in Eastern Europe.<\/p>

My wife had once been a top model at the Corinne Rothschild agency, and in 1961 she won the Miss World title. We often attended fashion shows together, until suddenly we lost our home in Amsterdam, our apartment in Osdorp. Leaving everything behind, we moved to Brussels, where we saw new opportunities ahead.<\/p>

Fate stepped in when my former coach, Ign\u00e1c Moln\u00e1r \u2013 who had once managed Willem II and the Dutch national team \u2013 asked me to assist him as an interpreter at a negotiation. That\u2019s how I became involved in a transfer deal with Crossing Molenbeek. Although the club wasn\u2019t looking for a player or a coach, through Ign\u00e1c Moln\u00e1r\u2019s strong connections I eventually took part in my very first transfer: I helped arrange the move of Fenerbah\u00e7e player Cenap Genc to Sint-Truiden. That was my first transfer \u2013 and thus began my career as a sports manager.<\/p>

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I was a young Hungarian boy, full of dreams. As a player for Dinamo Vasas \u2013 today known as Vasas SC \u2013 I chased the ball across the field, until in 1956 I turned my back on the blood-red regime, together with two of my teammates, Andr\u00e1s B\u00e9res and Mikl\u00f3s Mikl\u00f3s. For a short time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ocean_post_layout":"","ocean_both_sidebars_style":"","ocean_both_sidebars_content_width":0,"ocean_both_sidebars_sidebars_width":0,"ocean_sidebar":"0","ocean_second_sidebar":"0","ocean_disable_margins":"enable","ocean_add_body_class":"","ocean_shortcode_before_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_after_top_bar":"","ocean_shortcode_before_header":"","ocean_shortcode_after_header":"","ocean_has_shortcode":"","ocean_shortcode_after_title":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_widgets":"","ocean_shortcode_before_footer_bottom":"","ocean_shortcode_after_footer_bottom":"","ocean_display_top_bar":"default","ocean_display_header":"default","ocean_header_style":"","ocean_center_header_left_menu":"0","ocean_custom_header_template":"0","ocean_custom_logo":0,"ocean_custom_retina_logo":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_width":0,"ocean_custom_logo_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_tablet_max_height":0,"ocean_custom_logo_mobile_max_height":0,"ocean_header_custom_menu":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_family":"0","ocean_menu_typo_font_subset":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_size":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_font_size_unit":"px","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_font_weight_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_tablet":"","ocean_menu_typo_transform_mobile":"","ocean_menu_typo_line_height":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_line_height_unit":"","ocean_menu_typo_spacing":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_tablet":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_mobile":0,"ocean_menu_typo_spacing_unit":"","ocean_menu_link_color":"","ocean_menu_link_color_hover":"","ocean_menu_link_color_active":"","ocean_menu_link_background":"","ocean_menu_link_hover_background":"","ocean_menu_link_active_background":"","ocean_menu_social_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_bg":"","ocean_menu_social_links_color":"","ocean_menu_social_hover_links_color":"","ocean_disable_title":"default","ocean_disable_heading":"default","ocean_post_title":"","ocean_post_subheading":"","ocean_post_title_style":"","ocean_post_title_background_color":"","ocean_post_title_background":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_image_position":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_attachment":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_repeat":"","ocean_post_title_bg_image_size":"","ocean_post_title_height":0,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay":0.5,"ocean_post_title_bg_overlay_color":"","ocean_disable_breadcrumbs":"default","ocean_breadcrumbs_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_separator_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_color":"","ocean_breadcrumbs_links_hover_color":"","ocean_display_footer_widgets":"default","ocean_display_footer_bottom":"default","ocean_custom_footer_template":"0","ocean_post_oembed":"","ocean_post_self_hosted_media":"","ocean_post_video_embed":"","ocean_link_format":"","ocean_link_format_target":"self","ocean_quote_format":"","ocean_quote_format_link":"post","ocean_gallery_link_images":"off","ocean_gallery_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[171],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11992"}],"version-history":[{"count":67,"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12488,"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11992\/revisions\/12488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bekeffyfootball.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}