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Ladislau "Gioni" Brosovszky (Romanian: Broșovschi) (23 March 1951 – 23 December 1990) was a Romanian football midfielder with Hungarian roots.
Club career
Ladislau "Gioni" Brosovszky was born on 23 March 1951 in Arad, Romania and started to play football in the 1967–68 Divizia B season at local club, Vagonul. In the following season he went to play for UTA Arad with whom he made his Divizia A debut on 1 September 1968 in a 1–0 away loss in front of Petrolul Ploiești, being used by coach Nicolae Dumitrescu in a total of 21 matches in which he scored one goal as the team won the title by the end of the season. After another title won in the next season in which he contributed with one goal scored in 30 appearances, he took part in UTA's performance in the 1970–71 European Cup season in which they eliminated Feyenoord who were European champions at that time but got eliminated by Red Star Belgrade in the following round against whom he scored a goal. Brosovszky also played 8 matches in the 1971–72 UEFA Cup campaign, scoring one goal against Austria Salzburg and one against Zagłębie Wałbrzych helping The Old Lady reach the quarter-finals where they were eliminated with 3–1 on aggregate by Tottenham Hotspur who would eventually win the competition. In the beginning of his career, Brosovszky played as a left defender but afterwards he played more as an offensive midfielder, a position from which he managed to score a personal record of 16 goals in the 1976–77 season. Ladislau Brosovszky made his last Divizia A appearance on 24 June 1979 in a 6–2 home victory against Politehnica Iași, having a total of 314 appearances in which he scored 100 goals, being UTA's top-goalscorer in the competition and made a total of 16 appearances with four goals scored in European competitions. He spent the last two years of his career in Divizia B at Rapid Arad.
International career
Ladislau Brosovszky played three friendly games at international level for Romania, making his debut under coach Gheorghe Ola on 30 January 1972 in a 4–2 away victory in front of Morocco in which he scored a goal. His following two appearances were in a 2–2 against Peru and a 2–1 loss in front of Argentina.
= International goals
=Scores and results list Romania's goal tally first. "Score" column indicates the score after the player's goal.
Personal life
Brosovszky's father, Antoniu was also a footballer who played for UTA Arad and his daughter, Monica Brosovszky-Boriga is a former basketball player who played 270 games for the Romania women's national basketball team and won the Liga Națională 6 times with BC ICIM Arad and CSM Târgoviște. Ladislau Brosovszky died on 23 December 1990 at age 39 after suffering a heart attack.
A book about Brosovszky was written by Radu Romănescu and Ionel Costin, called Gioni Brosovszky – ultimul mare romantic (Gioni Brosovszky – the last great romantic), which was released on 18 April 2022 with the occasion of 77 years since the foundation of UTA Arad.
Honours
UTA Arad
Divizia A: 1968–69, 1969–70
Notes
References
External links
Ladislau Brosovszky at WorldFootball.net
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- 1969–70 Divizia A
- List of Romania international footballers
- 1968–69 Divizia A
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