First goal - book launch

Dr. Gáspár Borbás footballer, lawyer, life of a lifesaver - a core member of the ancestral Fradi; the national team's first goalscorer both home and away; participant and goalscorer in the first Hungarian match in England; left winger for the first FTC championship team; the first "doctor footballer" - Gáspár Borbás is mentioned in most football history summaries, he also has a special place in the memory of the Fradistas, but his public involvement with Endre Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and Károly Rassay and his involvement in the Second World Cup is noteworthy. His biography, which details his involvement with Rassay and Bajosky and the World War II rescue effort, will be published for the first time in 2023, the 120th anniversary of the first goal scored by the national team. THE FIRST GOAL is a biography of Gáspár Borbás, a member of the "Generation of 1900", which traces the complex and highly exciting career of the man who made the first goal. How did football take off in Hungary at the turn of the century? Why did his contemporaries sneer at the national team's first winning match, and how did the first goal become a cult decades later? How did a Budapest vice-attorney become a cooperative leader and then a supporter of the Bajcsy-Zsilinszky and Rassay third-party politics? How did he help Ede Teller's family and others to escape during the Holocaust? This volume uses newly discovered archival sources to describe hitherto unknown episodes of Hungarian anti-German resistance and rescue. The author is Barna Borbás, journalist, historian and great-grandson of Dr. Borbás.