Ferenc Szojka (7 April 1931 – 17 September 2011) 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 ...

who played as a

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for

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in the

1954 Events January * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...

and

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the 6th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first and only FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Br ...

s. He also played for

Salgótarjáni BTC Salgótarjáni Barátok Torna Club is a Hungarian football club from the town of Salgótarján, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság III – Northeast, the third tier of Hungarian football. History Salgótarjáni Barátok Torna Club debute ...

. He was part of Hungary's squad at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

, but he did not play in any matches.

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* 1931 births 2011 deaths Footballers from Salgótarján Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders 1954 FIFA World Cup players 1958 FIFA World Cup players 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-footy-midfielder-stub