Iosif Szökő

Iosif Szökő

Personal information
Date of birth	(1930-03-18)18 March 1930
Place of birth	Marghita, Romania
Date of death	2008 (aged 78)
Place of death	Bucharest, Romania
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1945–1947	Bihoreana Marghita
1947–1948	CFR Oradea
1948–1950	ICO Oradea	12	(0)
1951–1960	Dinamo București	95	(10)
Total		107+	(10+)
International career‡
1953–1956	Romania	11	(0)
Managerial career
1962–1963	Dinamo Pitești (assistant)
1963–1970	Dinamo București (assistant & youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14 November 2019 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 November 2019

Iosif Szökő (18 March 1930 – 2008^[1]) was a Romanian footballer of Hungarian descent, who played as a forward for Romania national football team and teams such ICO Oradea and Dinamo București.

Born in Marghita, Bihor County, Szökő started his career at the local club, Bihoreana Marghita, a county level side. After some friendly games against Rapid București, CFR Oradea and ICO Oradea, young Szökő was offered by CFR Oradea, team against which he scored three goals.^[2] Then, after a 3rd place in the Divizia B, Iosif Szökő moved in the great team of ICO Oradea and won a national title, before moving to Dinamo București, where he won another national title and a Romanian Cup, also obtaining five second places and being a Cup finalist one time.

After retirement he started a football manager career being the assistant coach of Virgil Mărdărescu at Dinamo Pitești, then he worked as an assistant coach at Dinamo București, where he was also the manager of various youth squads and between 1970s and 1980s was an important scouter. Among the players he coached, were names such as Dudu Georgescu and Alexandru Sătmăreanu.^[2]

Iosif Szökő played 11 games at international level for Romania.^[3] He made his debut at the 1954 World Cup qualifiers under coach Gheorghe Popescu I, playing in three games, the first one was a 3–1 victory against Bulgaria, the second was a 2–1 victory against Bulgaria and the third was a 1–0 loss against Czechoslovakia.^[3][4][5][6] His following 8 games were friendlies, his last appearance was in a 1–0 away victory against Yugoslavia.^[3][7]

ICO Oradea

• Divizia A: 1948–49

Dinamo București

• Divizia A: 1955
• Cupa României: 1958–59
• Cupa României: Runner-up 1954

• Iosif Szökő at RomanianSoccer.ro (in Romanian)
• Iosif Szökő at National-Football-Teams.com
• Iosif Szökő at WorldFootball.net