Győző Martos

Győző Martos was born on 15 December 1949 in Budapest. Hungarian football knew him as Martos Győző, and teammates as Gebin, a nickname that stuck after coach Csanádi Ferenc asked what his parents did for a living. They leased a hospitality business, gebines in the slang of the day, and the dressing room shortened it. He grew up a Ferencváros supporter through his godfather, who took him to watch Albert Flórián and Varga Zoltán. Youth football ran through the XVII. district sports school and Rákosligeti AC before a friend, Szabó László, arranged a trial via Orosz Pál. He joined the club structure around 1970, first into a third team, then the reserves, and waited behind Novák Dezső and Vépi Péter for a first-team chance.

His senior Ferencváros debut came in summer 1971 in the Magyar Népköztársasági Kupa against Paks. His first NB I appearance followed on 28 May 1972, as a substitute at left-back for Megyesi István against Pécs. He insisted he was a right-back but would play anywhere to get into the side. Over eight NB I seasons he became the disciplined, energetic right-back Dalnoki Jenő later called the most consistent player in the 1975-76 championship side. Club records credited by fradi.hu put him at 346 matches and 22 goals in all competitions for FTC, including 202 league games and 8 league goals. He won the Hungarian title in 1975-76 (Toldi-vándordíj as the club's player of the season), four Hungarian Cups (1972, 1974, 1976, 1978), and reached the 1974-75 European Cup Winners' Cup final in Basel, lost 0-3 to Dynamo Kiev. In 1981 Ferencváros made him örökös bajnok, a perpetual champion of the club.

Baróti Lajos gave him his Hungary debut on 15 March 1977 in Tehran against Iran (2-0). Between 1977 and 1983 he won 34 caps without scoring. He marked Ballon d'Or winner Oleg Blohin in the 1977 World Cup qualifier Hungary won 2-1, work that earned the press tag Blohin-ölő. He played six World Cup finals matches across Argentina 1978 (shirt 12) and Spain 1982 (shirt 2), including the 10-1 group win over El Salvador in Elche. Hungary exited both tournaments in the first round. His last international was Denmark 3-1 Hungary on 1 June 1983. In a 2024 Nemzeti Sport interview he said the two World Cup campaigns could have yielded more. He blamed long isolation before Argentina 1978 and a refereeing miss on Jean-Marie Pfaff in the 1982 Belgium game.

Club politics pushed him out of Ferencváros before age thirty. Friedmanszky Zoltán played him all over the pitch. Martos moved to Volán SC (1979-81), then, with help from former teammate Bálint László and agent Balla György, to Belgian side Waterschei SV Thor (1981-83/84). He won the Belgian Cup in 1982 and helped Waterschei reach the 1982-83 Cup Winners' Cup semi-finals, where Aberdeen under Alex Ferguson ended the run. A broken leg on return to Volán closed his playing career. Grosics Gyula urged him into administration. He served as Volán SC executive president (1984-1991), Volán FC president (1991-1992), and president of the Budapesti Labdarúgó-szövetség (1990-1998). He later worked as an MLSZ federal inspector into his final years, and from 2018 to 2026 sat on the board of the FTC Baráti Kör, including as a vice-president. Nemzeti Sport notes an economics diploma that supported those roles, and Sunday-morning tennis with friends in retirement.

He remained a Fradi man off the pitch. Son Ádám Martos later spoke publicly after the death. A daughter is referenced in that reporting without a published given name. Ádám said his mother, Martos's wife, had died long ago and that his father had lived alone for decades. Close friends included Nyilasi Tibor, Szokolai László, Mucha József and Bálint László. Teammates still used Gebin. Public identity was club loyalty more than party politics. In a tempofradi interview later quoted on fradi.hu he insisted his Fradi attachment predated the contract and was not empty talk.

Martos died on 3 September 2026 in Budapest at age 76. MLSZ and Ferencváros announced the death the same day and declared him their saját halottja (own deceased, a club-and-association funeral honour). Official statements did not publish a clinical cause. In a Blikk interview published 7 September 2026, his son Ádám Martos described a home collapse, hospital transfers, a heart attack diagnosis, stent placement after catheterisation, a subsequent circulatory collapse, and a roughly six-hour open-heart operation after which kidney and liver function failed. Treat that account as secondary family reporting to Blikk, not as an MLSZ or FTC medical statement. Ádám also said a farewell gathering near the Albert statue at the Fradi stadium was being organised with Nyilasi Tibor and friends, and that the final resting place would be with Martos's parents in a church burial plot. As of 7 September 2026, a public funeral date had not been widely published in the major obituaries reviewed.