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Péter Palotás

1929 - 1967

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Péter Palotás (27 June 1929 – 17 May 1967), born as Péter Poteleczky, was a Hungarian footballer who played as a forward for MTK Budapest FC and Hungary. During the 1950s he was a fringe member of the team known as the Mighty Magyars and played alongside the likes of Ferenc Puskás, Zoltán Czibor, Sándor Kocsis, Nándor Hidegkuti and József Bozsik. Palotás was an early pioneer of the deep-lying centre-forward role and in 1955 he scored the first ever hat-trick in a European Cup game. In 1959 he retired as a player due to a heart condition. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Péter Palotás is the 1,370th most popular soccer player (down from 1,230th in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 328th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular Hungarian Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Péter Palotás ranks 1,370 out of 21,273. Before him are Márcio Amoroso, Francesco Acerbi, Manuel Amoros, Oreco, Nicolás Otamendi, and José Antonio Reyes. After him are Matías González, José Gonzalvo, Pál Titkos, Memphis Depay, Marc-Vivien Foé, and Juan Bautista Agüero.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Péter Palotás ranks 232. Before him are Józef Glemp, Liselotte Pulver, Barbara Walters, Roger Bannister, June Squibb, and Joe Pass. After him are Nina Ponomaryova, Nigel Hawthorne, Jack Higgins, Kishore Kumar, Anna Walentynowicz, and Liz Sheridan. Among people deceased in 1967, Péter Palotás ranks 135. Before him are Manuel Prado Ugarteche, José Martínez Ruiz, Vincent Massey, Victor de Sabata, Siegfried Sassoon, and Mikhail Kovalyov. After him are Radhabinod Pal, Li Lisan, Nils von Kantzow, Gideon Ståhlberg, Oskar Fischinger, and Tudor Arghezi.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Péter Palotás ranks 347 out of 1,077. Before him are Árpád Szakasits (1888), Tivadar Puskás (1844), Moshe Sanbar (1926), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), Simon of Kéza (1250), and Katalin Szőke (1935). After him are Pál Titkos (1908), Iván Fischer (1951), Pál Losonczi (1919), László Fazekas (1947), Árpád Weisz (1896), and Charles Vidor (1900).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Hungary

Among soccer players born in Hungary, Péter Palotás ranks 33. Before him are Ferenc Szusza (1923), Géza Toldi (1909), Lippo Hertzka (1904), Károly Palotai (1935), Antal Dunai (1943), and György Orth (1901). After him are Pál Titkos (1908), László Fazekas (1947), Árpád Weisz (1896), Ferenc Hirzer (1902), Kálmán Mészöly (1941), and Lajos Baróti (1914).

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