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{{Short description|Hungarian footballer (1880–2023)}}
{{eastern name order|Pozsonyi Imre}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Imre Pozsonyi
| image = Jesza Poszony 1921.jpg
| caption = Poszonyi in 1921
| full_name = 
| birth_date = {{birth date|1880|2|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Kisbér]], [[Hungary]]
| death_date = 2 October 1963 (aged 83)
| death_place = [[Budapest]], Hungary
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| years1 = 1901–1902
| clubs1 = [[Magyar Úszó Egylet|MÚE]]<ref name=nela>[https://nela.hu/jatekos/9362/Pozsonyi_Imre Pozsonyi Imre - Nemzeti Labdarúgó Archívum]</ref>
| caps1 = 6
| goals1 = 1
| years2 = 1903–1905
| clubs2 = [[MTK Budapest|MTK]]<ref name=nela/>
| caps2 = 25
| goals2 = 0
| nationalyears1 = 1902
| nationalteam1 = [[Hungary national football team|Hungary]]
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| manageryears1 = 1921
| managerclubs1 = [[Poland national football team|Poland]]
| manageryears2 = 1921–1923
| managerclubs2 = [[KS Cracovia|Cracovia]]
| manageryears3 = 1924
| managerclubs3 = [[FC Barcelona]]
| manageryears4 = 1926
| managerclubs4 = [[Građanski Zagreb]]
| manageryears5 = 1926–1928
| managerclubs5 = [[Újpest FC|Újpest]]
| manageryears6 = 1930
| managerclubs6 = [[Real Club España]]
}}

'''Imre Pozsonyi''' (also known as '''Jesza Poszony''', first name also as '''Emmerich''' and '''Emérico'''; 12 December 1880 – 2 October 1963) was a Hungarian football player and manager.

== Career ==
Pozsonyi started his career playing for [[Magyar Úszó Egylet|MÚE]] and moved 1903 to [[MTK Budapest|MTK]] where he won the Hungarian Championship of Hungary. He also played for the [[Hungary national football team|Hungary national team]] in its first match against Austria.

In 1921 he became manager of the Polish club [[Cracovia Kraków]], with which he won the first national Polish championship in that year. In 1921 he also guided the Poland national team through its [[1921 Hungary v Poland football match|first international match, which was lost 1–0 to Hungary in Budapest in December 1921]].<ref>[https://eu-football.info/_match.php?id=4872 Hungary-Poland 1921] on EUFootball</ref>

In December 1922 he became assistant to the English manager [[Jack Greenwell]] at [[FC Barcelona]]. After Greenwell's sacking August 1923, he took over the head coach role until October, when he was replaced by the Englishman [[Alf Spouncer]]. In July 1924 he was again head coach, but he was replaced in December by the Englishman [[Conyers Kirby|Conyers "Ralph" Kirby]], under whom the team won the Spanish Cup and the Catalan championship until the end of the season.

In April 1926 he became manager of Građanski Zagreb, with which he won the Yugoslav championship of 1926. There he left in October, because he could not get his work permit renewed. After a couple of years with [[Ujpest FC]] in Budapest, where he became runner-up in cup and championship in 1927, he spent some time in the coaching staff of MTK. Early March 1930 he left for Mexico to become manager of [[Real Club España]]. He got the job there, because [[György Orth]] opted for a job in Chile instead. Pozsonyi won with the club the championship of 1930.

He was back in Budapest in 1932 on the occasion of the 30 anniversary of the first match between Hungary and Austria of which he had been a part. By then he had retired from management.

He died on 2 October 1963 in Budapest and was laid to rest at the [[Farkasréti Cemetery]] there.<ref>[https://www.magyarfutball.hu/en/szemelyek/adatlap/858/pozsonyi_imre Pozsonyi Imre (Kisbér 1882.02.26 - Budapest 1963.10.02)], MagyarFutball (per 20 August 2020)</ref><ref>[https://adtplus.arcanum.hu/hu/view/KepesSport_1963_2/?query=pozsonyi&pg=252&layout=s Képes Sport] via ADT archives</ref>

==Honours==
'''MTK'''
* Hungarian Championship: 1904

'''Cracovia'''
*[[List of Polish football champions|Polish Championship]]: [[1921 Polish Football Championship|1921]]

'''Građanski Zagreb'''
*[[Yugoslav First League|Kingdom of Yugoslavia Championship]]: [[1926 Yugoslav First League|1926]]

'''Real Club España'''
*[[Primera Fuerza|Mexican Championship]]: [[1929–30 Primera Fuerza season|1929–30]]

==External links==
* {{WorldFootball.net|jesza-pozsonyi}}
* {{EU-Football.info|16992}}
* [https://www.bdfutbol.com/en/c/entrenador.html?id=7428 Poszony] on BDFutbol
* [https://www.fcbarcelona.com/en/card/648689/jesza-poszony-1923-and-1924 Jesza Poszony (1923 and 1924)], [[FC Barcelona]] (per 20 August 2020)

== Literature ==
* Tamás Dénes, Mihály Sándor, Éva B. Bába: ''A magyar labdarúgás története I.: Amatorök és álamatorök (1897–1926)'', Campus Kiadó (Debreceni Campus Nonprofit Közhasznú Kft.), Debrecen, 2014. {{ISBN|978-963-9822-11-5}}
* [[Jonathan Wilson (writer)|Jonathan Wilson]]: ''Names Heard Long Ago: How the Golden Age of Hungarian Football Shaped the Modern Game'', Blink Publishing (London, UK), 2019. {{ISBN|978-1-788-702-73-7}}

==References==
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