Career
Deșu, of Hungarian origin, was born in Gátalja (Gătaia) and started his football career in his hometown. After a while he moved to Reşiţa, playing for two years at UDR. In 1929, he was called up to the Romania national football team for the first time, scoring in a friendly against Bulgaria. The chairman of the club where he played, Wolfgang Auschnit, refused to pay him the salary in the period of the World Cup.
After the World Cup, Deșu eventually left the club because of the chairman.
Deșu scored Romania"s first goal against Peru, and played his last match for the national team in the second match of that World Cup for Romania, against Uruguay. After the World Cup, he signed with Banatul Timişoara, but in 1933 he retired from football because of pneumonia.
In 1937, he died of pneumonia, aged 28. Romania"s goal tally first.