Sándor Kocsis (born September 21, 1929 in Budapest; died July 22, 1979) was a Hungarian football striker, who ranks fourth all-time with 75 international goals (in only 68 caps). Amazingly, he is not the top scorer for Hungary, as Ferenc Puskás scored 84.
Kocsis' international career spanned from 1948 to 1956. He led the 1954 World Cup in scoring with 11 goals as Hungary finished second. That number has only been topped once, by Just Fontaine scored 13 in 1958; it seems unlikely that it will be surpassed again in the foreseeable future.
Sándor Kocsis (born September 21, 1929 in Budapest; died July 22, 1979) was a Hungarian footballstriker, who ranks fourth all-time with 75 international goals (in only 68 caps).
Amazingly, he is not the top scorer for Hungary, as Ferenc Puskás scored 84.
Kocsis' international career spanned from 1948 to 1956.
Kocsis delivers a thrilling account: he's particularly good at making each multi-ethnic folk-inspired episode sound genuinely idiomatic, particularly where raw, primitive effects are employed, and he has the technique and stamina needed to traverse vast dynamic extremes, too.
Kocsis gives a barnstorming account of this astonishing piece of Bartók juvenilia but leaves you in no doubt that the first version is the best.
Kocsis doesn't always create the spine-chilling intensity and atmosphere that these slower sections should afford, but since Sándor's version is presently unavailable this is more than satisfactory, and the short pieces that complete this issue are also very well done.
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