Edvard Platz

Edvard "Edo" Platz (born 15 May 1911) was a Yugoslav-Hungarian football goalkeeper.

Edo Platz
Personal information
Full name Edvard Platz
Date of birth 15 May 1911
Place of birth Sarajevo, Austro-Hungary
Playing position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1925–1926 NAK Novi Sad
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1926–1932 NAK Novi Sad
1932–1933 Juda Makabi
1933–1934 Vojvodina
1934–1937 Jugoslavija Belgrade 13 (0)
1937–1941 Vojvodina
1941–1944 Újvidékí AC 25 (0)
Teams managed
1942–1944 Újvidékí AC (coach/player)
Srem S. Mitrovica
Bačka Bačka Palanka
Hajduk Kula
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Club

Born in Sarajevo,[1] during the Austro-Hungarian rule in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in a family of German-Jewish origin,[2] at some point during his childhood he moves to Novi Sad and while a highschool student he starts playing in the youth team of local NAK Novi Sad.[2] Initially, he played as forward,[2] but one day he had to replace the goalkeeper and after a splendid performance the coach has started since next day to coach him at the goalkeepeing position. He was only 15 when he debuted for the first team.[2]

Later, after a brief spell at Juda Makabi,[1] he will sign with FK Vojvodina where he will make himself described by the press as the best goalkeeper Vojvodina had in the period between wars.[2] His great performances called the attention of the major teams from the capital, and in 1937 he joins SK Jugoslavija.[2] His main goal was to archeve a call for the Yugoslav national team, however, in Jugoslavija he had to face the tough competition of taking the starting-place from an already well established and highly reputable Franjo Glazer.[2]

After 3 seasons spent mostly as reserve, although he managed to make 13 appearances at Yugoslav First League,[3] he leaves Belgrade and returns to Vojvodina where he is enthusiastically received back.[2] In 1938 he gots named the team captain for being the most balanced and regular player, and the one most capable of dealing with referees and adversary players.[2] In those next years Vojvodina will create a so-called Millioners team with Platz as main goalkeeper and captain, in what were seasons left in the memory of Vojvodina supporters for decades to come.[2]

In 1941 Second World War starts in Yugoslavia, and Nazi Germany invades the kingdom and creates a total new arrangement of borders and territories. Novi Sad becomes part of the Hungarian occupation of Yugoslav territories. A group of Vojvodina players forcefully joined NAK during the period of Hungarian occupation in order to avoid problems or even being sent to labour (concentration) camps, among them there was goalkeeper Platz, Ivan Medarić (Iván Mézes), Jovan Marjanović (János Máriás), Veljko Avramović (Velykó Avar), Jovica Jovanović (György Jánosi) and Lazar Živković (Lázár Zsoldos).[4] This was specially crucial for Platz because of his Jewish origin. During the period of Second World War, NAK, playing as Újvidéki AC, played 3 seasons in the Hungarian Championship, between 1941 and 1944.[1] In the first two seasons they made mid-table results, by finishing 12th in 1941–42, and 11th in 1942–43, however in 1943–44 they impressed by finishing in 6th place. The 1944–45 season was abandoned after only four match days, with UAC having played only 2 games.[5] Platz because of his experience was made player-coach in the first half of 1942–43 seson, and first 6 rounds of 1943–44 and 1944 seasons.[1]

Managerial career

At the end of the war Novi Sad returned to Yugoslavia and NAK was disbanded. Having gained already coaching experience, Platz decided to accept a coaching position at several Yugoslav clubs, among them FK Srem,[1] FK Bačka Bačka Palanka, FK Vardar, FK Hajduk Kula,[6] among others.

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References
  1. Platz Ede at magyarfutball.hu
  2. Edo Plac at fkvojvodina.com
  3. Edvard Edo Plac at exyufudbal.in.rs
  4. Josip Velker at Reprezentacija.rs (see eight paragraph)
  5. Hungary – List of Final Tables 1941–1950 at RSSSF
  6. "FK Hajduk Kula - Ponos Ravnice". Fkhajduk.rs. Archived from the original on 15 May 2012. Retrieved 30 August 2017.
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