István Sándor (footballer, born 1944)
# István Sándor (footballer, born 1944)

Ishtvan Jorovich Sandor (Hungarian: Sándor István; Ukrainian: Іштван Дьордьович Шандор; born 19 August 1944) is a Ukrainian former football player and coach of Hungarian origin. He was awarded the honorary title of the Master of Sports of the USSR.

## Biography

He started playing football in his youth in his native Zakarpattia Oblast. In 1966 he was invited to the “Polissya” team (Zhytomyr). In 1970 he played for Spartak, Sumy for a short time. After the end of his professional career as a football player, he was appointed as a coach of Hoverla (Uzhhorod), which then played in the second league of the USSR Football Championship (197? -1978).

Halso became an assistant of the second league team Spartak (Ivano-Frankivsk) in 1979. In 1981 he was the head coach of Spartak, which was then called "Prykarpattia" and played in the first league, served on the teams of Bukovina (Chernivsky) (1982–1983), Zakarpattia (Uzhgorod) (1984–1987) and Zirka (Kirovograd) (1988–1989).

After settling in Hungary, he was the coach of Nyíregyháza, Diósgyőr and then Stadler. He became a MTK player observer in 1998. He led the BVSC team in the second half of the year. He has been leading the Csongrád team since the summer of 1999. He held this position until June 2001, when he became the coach of Nyíregyháza again.

