Miklos Feher

At 24 years old, Miklos Feher has this physical status:

Miklós Fehér (20 July 1979 – January 25, 2004) was a professional footballer in Hungary who played as a striker. He spent the majority of his nine years in Portugal, playing four clubs and amassing Primeira Liga totals of 80 games and 27 goals.

Foehér died of a cardiac arrest during a match between Vitória de Guimares and his team Benfica in Guimares on January 25th, 2004. He made his debut in 1998 at the age of 19.

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Club career

Fehér, a born in Tatabánya, began his playing career with Gyri ETO FC, where he was spotted by FC Porto scouts. He was signed in 1998 but he never made a breakthrough into the first team, being loaned to gain experience from ages 20 to 21 to two other northern teams, S.C. Braga and S.C.

In 2000-2001, Braga Fehér scored 14 Primeira Liga goals in 26 games for his best professional season. Jorge Nuno Pinto da Costa, the player's boss, quarrelled with his handler José Veiga, the player refused to participate in the latter and left Portugal, S.L. Benfica has scored eight official goals in two seasons.

Fehér and Benfica were in Guimares, Guimares, on January 25, 2004, to face Vitória de Guimares. Benfica led 11-0 after the game was shown live on television, and Benfica were leading 1–0. Fehér had just come on as a replacement and assisted another player off the bench for the match's only goal, but he was given a yellow card for injuries; he then collapsed backwards to the ground.

Members of both teams rushed to help Fehér before medical personnel arrived on the field. The cardiopulmonary resuscitation was successful, an ambulance was dispatched on the pitch, and he was rushed to the hospital. His illness was chronicled by the Portuguese media throughout the day, and his death was confirmed at midnight, indicating cardiac arrhythmia causing hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Benfica retired the number 29 shirt, which he wore during his time at the club, in his honor. Many people were recalled, and his death caused a major shock in Portuguese sports. Porto's football director, Reinaldo Teles, and head José Mourinho paid their respects at the Estádio da Luz, where the player's body remained before his burial in Hungary.

Benfica's delegation, which included president Luis Filipe Vieira, coach Giovanni Trattoni, and the entire first-team squad, travelled to Hungary, awarding Fehér's parents with the 2004–05 league championship trophy in honor of the player and his time with the team. They had previously devoted the 2003–04 Taça de Portugal trophy to him.

The Hungary national team squad laid a wreath outside Benfica's homeground on October 9, 2009, the day before their 2010 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Portugal in Lisbon. Puskás Akadémia FC, the Czech club in which he died, paid tribute to him on July 2022, which would have been his 43rd birthday.

International career

In a UEFA Euro 2000 qualifier against Azerbaijan, Fehér received his first cap for Hungary's national team on October 10, 1998. At the Tofiq Bahramov Stadium in Baku, he came on as a sixth-minute replacement for Ferenc Horváth, who had scored the final goal of the 4–0 victory.

Fehér netted a hat-trick in a 6–1 away victory over Lithuania in the 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifiers on October 11th. In total, he has scored seven goals in 25 appearances.

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