Bence Lázár (21 March 1991 – 22 February 2018) was a
Hungarian footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
(
striker) who last played for
Újpest FC
Újpest Football Club () is a Hungary, Hungarian professional association football, football club based in Újpest, Budapest, that competes in Nemzeti Bajnokság I.
Formed in 1885, Újpest reached the first division of the Hungarian League in ...
. He retired from professional football in 2014 at the age of 23 after serious back problems. In 2015, he was diagnosed with
leukemia
Leukemia ( also spelled leukaemia; pronounced ) is a group of blood cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and produce high numbers of abnormal blood cells. These blood cells are not fully developed and are called ''blasts'' or '' ...
.
Lázár died on 22 February 2018, aged 26.
Club career
He made his debut against
Kaposvári Rákóczi FC
Kaposvári Rákóczi FC is a football club in Kaposvár, Hungary. Their home stadium is Rákóczi Stadion. The team is named after Francis II Rákóczi, a Transylvanian prince and national hero and they are also often referred to be the nic ...
on 26 February 2011. In this match, he scored twice.
Honours
Újpest
*
Hungarian Cup
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(1):
2013–14
References
External links
1991 births
2018 deaths
Footballers from Kecskemét
Hungarian men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Hungary men's youth international footballers
Újpest FC players
SV Würmla players
NyÃregyháza Spartacus FC players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
Hungarian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Deaths from leukemia
Deaths from cancer in Hungary
21st-century Hungarian sportsmen
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