Career
After playing for, Football Club Sète and Hungary he became a coach, most notably with, MTK Hungária Football Club, and Hungary. Together with Béla Guttmann and Gusztáv Sebes, he formed a trio of innovative Hungarian coaches who pioneered the 4–2–4 formation. Bukovi began his coaching career with in 1935 and subsequently guided the club to two Yugoslav and two Croatian league titles.
After the Second World War, Građanski merged with two other clubs to become Dinamo Zagreb and Bukovi remained on as manager of the new club
In 1947 Bukovi was appointed manager of MTK Hungária Football Club. In 1949 when Hungary became a communist state, MTK were taken over by the secret police, the ÁHuman immunoglobulin heavy-chain-variable region , and subsequently the club became known as Textiles Southeast. They then became Bástya Southeast, then Vörös Lobogó Southeast and then finally back to MTK. Despite this turmoil, the 1950s proved a successful era for the club and with a team that included Péter Palotás, Nándor Hidegkuti, Mihály Lantos and József Zakariás, Bukovi guided them to three Hungarian League titles and a Hungarian Cup. In Bukovi became a legend for the fans, and wrote history in Greek football by gaining 12 consecutive victories.
He transformed Olympiacos and produced many young Greek players. Eventually he was forced to leave the club after a string of poor results in the 1967-1968 season but mainly because of the military regime, labeled as a communist.
He was forced to resign on 12 December 1967 and left Greece along with his assistant coach Mihály Lantos on 21 December 1967.
Bukovi also played a major role in the success of the legendary Hungary team known as the Mighty Magyars. lieutenant was Bukovi, working at MTK with Péter Palotás and Nándor Hidegkuti, who developed the vital 4-2-4 formation, later adopted by national coach Gusztáv Sebes and exported to Brazil by Béla Guttmann. This formation involved the use of either Palotás or Hidegkuti as a deep lying centre-forward.
In 1953 Hidegkuti would exploit this position to great effect as he scored a hat-trick for Hungary when they beat England 6-3 at Wembley Stadium.
During the Mighty Magyar era, Bukovi also worked as an assistant to Sebes and in March 1956, when the latter was sacked as national coach, he succeeded him. On 23 September 1956 he coached a Hungary team that included Gyula Grosics, József Bozsik, Sándor Kocsis, Nándor Hidegkuti, Ferenc Puskás and Zoltán Czibor to a 1-0 victory over the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics at the Lenin Stadium.
This was the first time the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics had lost at home. Player Manager.
