Ferenc "Frank" Arok ( sr-Cyrl, Ференц Арок, ; 20 January 1932 – 12 January 2021) was a Yugoslavian

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and coach.

Career

Arok played for Jedinstvo in

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during the 1950s before coaching. In the early 1960s Arok coached

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and

FK Vojvodina Fudbalski klub Vojvodina ( sr-Cyrl, Фудбалски клуб Војводина), commonly known as Vojvodina and colloquially as Voša ( sr-Cyrl, Воша), is a Serbian professional football club based in Novi Sad, Serbia, the second large ...

before moving to Australia. In Australia Arok coached

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, and

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, and the Australian national team. Arok coached Australia in 48 A internationals between 1983 and 1989. In the 1990 Australia Day honours, Arok was made a

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(AM) for "service to soccer, particularly as the Australian national coach". He died on 12 January 2021 in Serbia, aged 88.

References

External links

TWG article
* 1932 births 2021 deaths People from Kanjiža Footballers from North Banat District Hungarians in Vojvodina Yugoslav emigrants to Australia Men's association football defenders Yugoslav men's footballers Hungarian men's footballers Yugoslav football managers Serbia and Montenegro football managers Hungarian football managers Australian soccer managers RFK Novi Sad 1921 managers Australia men's national soccer team managers Sydney Olympic FC managers South Melbourne FC managers Yugoslav expatriate football managers Expatriate soccer managers in Australia Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Australia Members of the Order of Australia Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Serbia 20th-century Hungarian sportsmen {{Hungary-footy-bio-stub