Background
Szepesi was born György Friedländer into a Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary. His father, Miklós Friedländer, died in the Buchenwald concentration camp in 1945.
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Gyorgy Szepesi
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Szepesi himself was forced into a labor battalion in Ukraine, which was disbanded in October 1944. Szepesi received his doctorate in sports history from the University of Physical Education in Budapest. He played basketball for Hungary’s Vác-Újbuda LTC until the Fascists disbanded the club in 1942.
Szepesi has been on Hungarian radio since April 1945.
He has covered Olympic Games since 1948, and the Football World Cup since 1954. Szepesi was a Hungarian Olympic Committee member from 1962 to 2000, and was the Executive Committee Chairman for the Fédération Internationale de Football Association (Fédération internationale de football association) from 1982 to 1994.
He was Chairman of the Hungarian Football Association (HFA) from 1978 to 1986.
Achievements
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Szepesi received the Fédération internationale de football association Medal in 1994, and the Olympic Order from the International Olympic Committee in 1995. He received the Pillar of Achievement Award from the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997. In 2004, Szepesi was given the Prima Primissa Award in the Hungarian Electronic Press category. In 2005, Szepesi became an honorary citizen of Budapest. That same year, he was decorated with the Middle Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary.
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He is honorary chairman of the HFA, and an honorary member of Fédération internationale de football association’s Executive Committee.
