He is considered one of the best European defenders of the 1940s. Hungarian football figure and friend of Puskás.
Not all love stories can have a happy ending, partly because the world of feelings does not often coincide with the world of laws. Sandor Szucs fell in love, risked for those beats that moved his chest and paid for it with his life. His death certificate should clarify that he died of love. However, those papers report that he was hanged for attempting to “desert” in Communist Hungary.
Who was Sandor Szucs? Why did this tragic outcome come about? In this story, you have to go for a better understanding by part. Born in 1921, Szucs was one of the best defenders in Europe in the 1940s.member of a brilliant nest of international stars who failed to win a World Cup because the tournament was suspended from 1938 to 1950 due to World War II.
szucs, friend of a Real Madrid legend like Ferenc Puskásplayed in the Hungarian national team and also starred in the powerful Hungarian team Ujpest FC, a club with which he won the local championship three consecutive years, from 1945 to 1947.
So far the story seemed ideal, at least seen through the eyes of others or the eyes of the press. The story of his personal book would change dramatically in the spring of 1950, in Budapest, when he entered Elizabeth Kovacs’ house21 years old, singer and actress who began to gain recognition in the country already governed under the influence of Stalin’s Soviet Union.
Szucs was married and had two children. Elizabeth, or Erzsi, according to her stage name, was also married. In fact, it was the artist’s husband, passionate about football and a fan of Ujpest, who invited several of the team’s footballers to visit his home and spend a pleasant day.
AND THE LOVE BEGAN… ALSO THE NIGHTMARE
Crossed glances, bold remarks and daring proposals. Szucs and Erzsi fell in love. The attraction was so great that they decided to have an extramarital affair. Of course, because of their fame (especially his), it was almost impossible to hide that love. And the scandal broke making so much noise that the Hungarian regime even intervened through the famous secret police, the so-called AVH. The bond of love was unacceptable to the values the government was trying to propagate.
The resistance option for the couple was to escape to Italy, but the only way to do it was with the help of smugglers, first to Yugoslavia. The operation carried a high risk: life itself.
The escape was prepared, dozens of details were taken into account, but the operation failed. The AVH detected all movements and was able to record them. Did they transfer the couple? Did they betray them? Suspicions of a possible anonymous complaint pointed to Ujpest’s dressing room.
They were arrested on March 6, 1951, the same day the escape began. They were taken to the so-called 60 Andrassy Street (there was the secret police office), where they were tortured. Then there was a trial and on May 16 the verdict was announced: death sentence for Sandor Szucs, and four years in prison and five years deprivation of public activity for Elizabeth Kovacs.
Puskás could do nothing to prevent his companion and friend from being hanged, despite pleas for clemency.
WHAT HAPPENED ON ERZSI’S LIFE?
After it was released, it went platinum after selling over two and a half million copies. In 1964 he moved to Germany, later to Sweden and then back to Hungary. He died in Budapest in 2014, at the age of 85.
WHAT HAPPENED TO PUSKÁS’ LIFE?
His outcome is now better known: he became one of the best players in Real Madrid’s history and was also one of the institution’s six all-time top goalscorers. Meringue. With the Hungarian national team, on the other hand, he played two World Cups: 1954 (runner-up) and 1962.
WHAT HAPPENED TO COMMUNIST HUNGARY?
It lasted from 1949 to 1989. The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was intended to break away from the Soviet Union, but the revolutionary movement was ultimately defeated.
Source: Goal