TJ OFC Gabčíkovo
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| Full name | OFC Russel Gabčíkovo |
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| Founded | 1923 |
| Ground | TJ OFC Gabčíkovo, Gabčíkovo |
| President | Győrgy Csőrgő |
| Head coach | Jozef Olejník |
| 2014-15 | 3rd |
| Website | Club home page |
OFC Russel Gabčíkovo is a Slovak football team, based in the town of Gabčíkovo. The club was founded in 1923. In February 2013, the club was renamed OFK Russel Gabčíkovo, due to the club's new sponsor.
If we take just football as the basis of organized sports, its origins date back over seventy-two years. However, if we seek the origins of folk games based on active movement, we have a very difficult time finding their first roots.
How did it actually start with football? Easily: in green- and blue-white. It is explained very clearly by the book titled 70 Years of Sports in Gabčíkovo - 1923-1993, according to which right after World War I French Legionnaires had been accommodated in the Castle Amade, who used to play football in the park of the castle. The bystander local youth liked this game very much. However, there was a problem: the villagers had no ball.
Meanwhile, they learned that the French soldiers adored cat meat and, consequently, the population of cats became soon “thinned” in Gabčikovo. The villagers sold male and female cats to Legionnaires and bought a real soccer ball.
Let’s suppose that indeed in 1923 football in Gabčikovo started its “journey of conquest”. However, in that case something is wrong, there is something contradictory in the memories of Imrich Vida and Michal Kovács: “The interest was great, and after all, we urged the youth to play, too!” The idea of founding our own team came up immediately; however, some basic statutes would have been necessary for that, but we did not have available anything like that. Fortunately, the local Roman Catholic Reverend - priest Rezső Bohus also supported us, even joined us... Concerning the previous quote, just two comments: Rezső Bohus was appointed to the post of parish priest of the village of Gabčíkovo only in July 1929, so he could join the football team at the most in the summer of 1930! On the other hand, the basis Statute of BSK - i.e. the Sports Club of Gabčíkovo already existed in 1927!
The football team of Gabčíkovo was in 1927 officially renamed as Gabčíkovský Športový Klub – BSK (BSK is the abbreviation of the Hungarian version of the club’s title). BSK then played matches in green and white colors; players had a set of sports uniforms and two footballs. František Bartalos recorded the statutes of the club. Leadership positions were given to the former athlete from Budapest, Ľudovít Pék and a local player, Štefan Komáromi. The backbone of the team was constituted by: František Pavlovics, Vojtech Bartal, Vojtech Kovács, Jozef Bartal, Jozef Pavlovics, František Vass, Jozef Horváth, and Imrich Vida, just like František Sveiger, Rezső Koczkás, Ladislav Bodó, Eugen Bodó and Štefan Horváth. The team of this club even won a Winning Cup in 1928 against other teams from the surrounding villages.
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