Csaba Györffy (9 July 1943 – 18 October 2018) was a

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n footballer who played as a winger.

Career

Csaba Györffy was the one who influenced Steagul Roșu Brașov to change its official colors from white and blue to black and yellow. The change came after in December 1966 Györffy went on a tournament with Romania's Olympic football team in

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. After a match with

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, Györffy received from captain

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the shirt with which he played. Györffy was fascinated by the combination of yellow and black stripes and decided at the return in the country to wear the shirt during his training sessions with the team. The decision to change the colors of the club was taken by coach

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, who considered that, in the new colors, the team will be seen better on the field. Since January 1967, the team from

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has yellow-black as official colors, recalling the Uruguayan Peñarol team. After he retired from his playing career he continued to work at Steagul Roșu Brașov as a

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, assistant and youth coach in different periods. In 2013 he was named Citizen of Honor in Brașov.

International career

Csaba Györffy played one game for Romania's national team under coach

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in a 1–1 friendly against

, which took place in

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. He also played one game for Romania's Olympic team in which he scored in a 3–2 loss against

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at the 1972 Summer Olympics qualifiers. He was selected to be in Romania's 1970 World Cup squad, but because he got ill with

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, Györffy missed the tournament.

Honours

Steagul Roșu Brașov *

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: 1968–69

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Csaba Györffy
at Labtof.ro {{DEFAULTSORT:Gyorffy, Csaba 1943 births 2018 deaths Footballers from Harghita County Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent Székely people Romanian men's footballers Romania men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Liga I players Liga II players ASA Târgu Mureș (1962) players FC Brașov (1936) players Romanian football managers FC Brașov (1936) managers 20th-century Romanian sportsmen