Ferenc Bene was a Hungarian

Hungary

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 football (soccer)

Football (soccer)

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 player of Újpesti Dózsa

Újpest FC

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, who was a member of the team that won the gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics

1964 Summer Olympics

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 in Tokyo

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, Japan

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. He was the top scorer of the tournament (12 goals in 5 matches).

Bene was born in Balatonújlak

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. He played his first international match against Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia national football team

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 on 14 October 1962, and his last against Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia national football team

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 on 12 September 1979. He obtained 76 caps and scored 36 goals. He was bronze medallist at the European Championship of 1964

1964 UEFA European Football Championship

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, and a quarter-finalist at the World Cup of 1966 (at the latter event he was the top scorer of the Hungarian national team). Bene was named Footballer of the Year in 1969. He died in Budapest

Budapest

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, after a lengthy treatment following a fall at the end of 2005. His son Ferenc Bene jr. is also a former player, currently working as a coach

He played for the following teams:

• Újpesti Dózsa (1961–1978)
• Volán FC
  Volán FC
  Volán FC is a now defunct Hungarian football team from the Rákospalota neighborhood of Budapest, named after one of the main bus companies in the country Borsod Volán...
  
   (1978–79, 1983–84)
• Sepsi-78, Finland (1981–82)
• Soroksári VOSE (1984)
• Kecskeméti SC (1985)