Tibor Simon (1 September 1965 – 23 April 2002) was a Hungarian

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player and manager.

Career

Simon, who played as a defender, spent his entire professional club career with

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, and also earned 16 caps at international level for

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, including three FIFA World Cup qualifying matches. He also managed

FC Sopron FC Sopron was a Hungarian football club from the town of Sopron, near the Austrian border. It was founded in 1921 as ''Soproni Postás''. The club's home stadium is Stadion Városi with a capacity of 5,300. With the beginning of the season 2007 ...

between 2001 and 2002.

Death

On 21 April 2002, Simon was beaten to death by security personnel outside a pub in

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, dying two days later. Three of the four men arrested for his murder were later freed.

References

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