Personal information | |||
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Full name | László Raffinsky | ||
Date of birth | 23 April 1905 | ||
Place of birth | Miskolc, Hungary (Austria-Hungary) | ||
Date of death | 31 July 1981 | (aged 76)||
Place of death | Cluj-Napoca, Romania | ||
Playing position | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1924–1925 | Unirea Timişoara | - | (-) |
1925–1927 | CA Timişoara | - | (-) |
1927–1929 | Chinezul Timişoara | - | (-) |
1929–1931 | Juventus Bucureşti | - | (-) |
1931–1933 | Ripensia Timişoara | - | (-) |
1933–1935 | SK Židenice | - | (-) |
1935–1940 | Rapid Bucureşti | - | (-) |
National team | |||
1929–1938 | Romania | 20 | (1) |
Teams managed | |||
1944–1945 | Prahova Ploieşti | ||
1950 | Mica Brad | ||
1953 | Prahova Ploieşti | ||
1954 | Chimica Târnăveni | ||
1955 | Aurul Zlatna | ||
1962–1964 | Tehnofrig Cluj-Napoca | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
László Raffinsky (Romanian: Ladislau Raffinsky) (born 23 April 1905 in Miskolc, Hungary (Austria-Hungary) - died 31 July 1981 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania) was a Romanian football player of Hungarian ethnicity who was a member of Romanian team which participated at the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay and 1938 FIFA World Cup in France. He holds the record for most goals scored in a Liga I match, scoring ten goals in the match between Juventus Bucureşti and Dacia Unirea Brăila from 1929-1930 season.
László Raffinsky begun his football career in 1924, playing for Unirea, a football club from Timişoara. In 1925, Raffinsky moved to CA Timişoara, and then, in 1927, at Chinezul Timişoara, one of the Romania's best clubs at that time. But Raffinsky's new club entered in a financial crisis, and for the first time in seven years, Chinezul lost the Romanian championship. Eventually, Raffinsky leaves Chinezul in 1929, signing with Juventus Bucureşti. In 1929-1930 season of Liga I, Raffinsky won his first title of champion with Juventus. In 1931, he returns to Timişoara, playing for another symbol of interwar period Romanian football, Ripensia. He leaves Ripensia in 1933, after winning another Liga I - champion title, leaving Romania for playing in Czechoslovakia, at SK Židenice. He returns in Romania after two years, his come-back to Bucharest, where he previously played at Juventus, being linked with a move to Rapid. He played until 1940 for Rapid, winning for three times the Romanian Cup. In 1939, he was arrested, together with another three players of Rapid, Iuliu Baratky, Ştefan Auer and Ioan Bogdan, because of their win in the final of the Romanian Cup against Venus Bucharest. They were arrested at the order of Gabriel Marinescu, the Minister of Internal Affairs and the Prefect of Bucharest, who was also the chairman of Venus. After a huge scandal initiated by the press, the four players were released from the jail after a few days, and Gabriel Marinescu was arrested and executed in 1940. In 1940, Raffinsky retired from his playing career.