Erdélyben ringatták a román futball bölcsőjét
The Cradle of Romanian Football Was Rocked in Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The cradle of Romanian football was rocked in Transylvania – there is no exaggeration in this statement. It’s enough to point out that on the national team’s first match, ten ethnic Hungarian footballers played. The eleventh member was the team captain… The teams from the regions of Transylvania, Partium, and Banat gained prominence in the revitalized Romanian championship after 1920: the best teams from Kolozsvár/Cluj and Temesvár/Timişoara contested the Romanian championship final in 1922, with Kinizsi (Chinezul) winning six consecutive championship titles from 1921. Timişoara’s team, Ripensia, was actually the first proper professional team in Romania. From the introduction of the professional championship in 1932 until 1940, with a single exception, the top scorer was consistently of Hungarian ethnicity. Among them stood out Gyula Bodola, known as Dudus, who was the most exceptional goal scorer in the history of the Romanian national team for sixty-six years. He was also one of the thirteen footballers who played for both the Hungarian and Romanian national teams.

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