Ladislau Raffinsky

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playername = Ladislau Raffinsky


fullname = Ladislau Raffinsky
dateofbirth = birth date|1905|04|23|mf=y
dateofdeath = death date and age|1981|07|31|1905|04|23
cityofbirth = Miskolc
countryofbirth = Hungary (Austria-Hungary)
cityofdeath = Cluj-Napoca
countryofdeath = Romania
currentclub = Retired
position = Midfielder
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1924-1925
1925-1927
1927-1929
1929-1931
1931-1933
1933-1935
1935-1940
clubs = Unirea Timişoara
CA Timişoara
Chinezul Timişoara
Juventus Bucureşti
Ripensia Timişoara
SK Židenice
Rapid Bucureşti
caps(goals) =
nationalyears = 1929-1938
nationalteam = Romania
nationalcaps(goals) = 20 (1) [ [http://www.info.frf.ro/index.php?articol=196 Evidence of Ladislau Raffinsky's appearances for Romania national football team] ]
manageryears = 1944-1945
1950
1953
1954
1955
1962-1964
managerclubs = Prahova Ploieşti
Mica Brad
Prahova Ploieşti
Chimica Târnăveni
Aurul Zlatna
Tehnofrig Cluj-Napoca

Ladislau Raffinsky ( _hu. László Raffinsky) (born April 23, 1905 in Miskolc, Hungary (Austria-Hungary) - died July 31, 1981 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) was a Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity who was a member of Romanian team which participated at the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay and 1938 FIFA World Cup in France. He holds the record for most goals scored in a Liga I match, scoring ten goals in the match between Juventus Bucureşti and Dacia Unirea Brăila from 1929-1930 season [ [http://www.ziarultricolorul.ro/articole.php?aid=6879&_nr=305 An article about performances made by Romanian football players or teams, including Raffinsky's] ro icon] .

Career

Club Career

Ladislau Raffinsky begun his football career in 1924, playing for Unirea, a football club from Timişoara. In 1925, Raffinsky moved to CA Timişoara, and then, in 1927, at Chinezul Timişoara, one of the Romania's best clubs at that time [Chinezul Timişoara won the Romanian championship six times in a row, beetween 1922 and 1927 ] . But Raffinsky's new club entered in a financial crisis, and for the first time in seven years, Chinezul lost the Romanian championship. Eventually, Raffinsky leaves Chinezul in 1929, signing with Juventus Bucureşti. In 1929-1930 season of Liga I, Raffinsky won his first title of champion with Juventus. In 1931, he returns to Timişoara, playing for another symbol of interwar period romanian football, Ripensia. He leaves Ripensia in 1933, after winning another Liga I - champion title, leaving Romania for playing in Czechoslovakia, at SK Židenice. He returns in Romania after two years, his come-back to Bucharest, where he previously played at Juventus, being linked with a move to Rapid. He played until 1940 for Rapid, winning for three times the Romanian Cup. In 1939, he was arrested, together with another three players of Rapid, Iuliu Baratky, Ştefan Auer and Ioan Bogdan, because of their win in the final of the Romanian Cup against Venus Bucharest [ [http://news.4romania.com/Sportivi-romani-in-puscarie_19128.html Sportivi romani in puscarie | news 4 romania ] ] . They were arrested at the order of Gabriel Marinescu, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Prefect of Bucharest , who was also the chairman of Venus. [ [http://news.4romania.com/Sportivi-romani-in-puscarie_19128.html An article about Romanian football players who were incarcerated] ] After a huge scandal initiated by the press, the four players were released from the jail after a few days, and Gabriel Marinescu was arrested and executed in 1940. In 1940, Raffinsky retired from his playing career.

National Team

Ladislau Raffinsky won twenty caps for the Romania national football team. His first match for Romania was a defeat, in 1929, against Yugoslavia [ [http://www.info.frf.ro/index.php?articol=195 Evidence of Raffinsky's first match at the national team] ] . At his fourth match for the national team, Raffinsky scored his first and only goal for Romania, against Greece [ [http://www.info.frf.ro/index.php?articol=195 Evidence of Raffinsky's first goal at the national team] ] . In 1930, he was called to the Romanian squad which participated at the first FIFA World Cup, in Uruguay [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/roem-players-wc.html Romania's squad for 1930 FIFA World Cup] ] . But the chairman of Astra Romana, a company where Raffinsky and his team-mate Emerich Vogl were office workers, interdicted the two players to leave their workplace [ [http://www.agenda.ro/news/news/7000/senzational-2.html An article about Romanian players from Timişoara that played at the World Cup. The story with Raffinsky and his chairman is included] ] . At the intevention of Octav Luchide, the two players eventually took the SS Conte Verde ship to Uruguay. In Uruguay, Raffinsky played in the both matches for Romania, against Peru and Uruguay [ [http://www.rsssf.com/miscellaneous/roem-players-wc.html Evidence of the two matches played by Raffinsky at the 1930 FIFA World Cup] ] . In the match against Peru, he was fouled by Plácido Galindo of Peru, who was dismissed for the foul, being the first player ever to be dismissed at the FIFA World Cup. [ [http://www.sport365.ro/Romania_la_primul_Mondial__III_-n15258.html The story of Romania's first match at the World Cup] ] He was also included in the 1930 FIFA World Cup Best ElevenMihai Ionescu, Mircea Tudoran, "Fotbal de la A la Z", Bucharest: Editura Sport-Turism, 1984] . Raffinsky was not called up again at the national team until 1932, when he played in a 6-3 victory of Romania against France. After another three consecutive matches against Greece, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, Raffinsky was not called up until 1937. In 1938, he was called again at a FIFA World Cup, playing for Romania in the two matches against Cuba. These two matches were the last matches at the national team for Raffinsky.

International goals

Manager Career

Despite being a successful player, Ladislau Rafinsky was not a great manager. He begun his managerial career in 1944, coaching Prahova Ploieşti. He was the manager of the team from Ploieşti until 1945. He was the manager of another few Liga II and Liga III clubs, like Mica Brad, Chimica Târnăveni or Aurul Zlatna. In 1962, he moved to Cluj-Napoca, being the for two years the manager of Tehnofrig, a small football club of the factory with the same name. In 1964, Ladislau Raffinsky retired from football.

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