Career
Kálmán, who later played for Austria, coached the Romanian National team for five games in the mid-1930s. In 1999, he was listed by World Soccer as one of the 100 greatest players of all-time. Born in Bácspalánka (Bačka Palanka), a town on the Danube River in Austria-Hungary (now part of Vojvodina, Serbia), Konrád moved to Budapest as a small child.
He joined the club MTK Hungária Football Club in 1910 at the age of 14 and then joined the first team in the Hungarian League in 1913 at the age of 17.
In the three championship seasons between 1917-1919, MTK outscored their opponents, 376-46, and had an overall record of 60-4-2. Kálmán played in 94 games during this incredible run and scored 88 goals while a player for MTK. In August 1926, Kálmán was brought to the United States by National Agar, the owner-manager of the Brooklyn Wanderers of the American Soccer League (Advanced Systems Limited).
Kálmán"s talent was so legendary, that Agar was forced to keep the transfer a secret until he was on his way to the United States. That year, Konrád played for Brooklyn and appeared in 27 games and scored two goals. That season, he also played in the International Soccer League, a new league of American and Canadian teams.
Konrád scored four goals while playing in every game.
After his only season in the United States, Konrád returned to Hungary and ended his playing career with MTK during the 1927-1928 season. He then became a world-renowned coach and led powerful clubs such as Bayern Munich, Football Club Zurich, and Slavia Prague. Konrád also coached a number of teams in Sweden, where he settled and lived until his death in 1980.