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Recall by Toni Barca5/17/2023 ![]() ![]() That “ blond Platko from Hungary”, As Rafael Alberti wrote in a poem, was the first man to unite the destiny of Hungarian football with that of Barça. ![]() ![]() That excellent goalkeeper who had been one of the most famous Barcelonans in the 1920s, died very poor in Chile, where five years ago the management of Colo-Colo, a club where he was also loved, prevented his remains they ended up in an anonymous ossuary making way for the mausoleum that the club has in the cemetery to remember the names that have made this entity great.įerenc Platko (Budapest, 1898 – Santiago, 1983) was the first Hungarian to defend the Barça shirt. Letters that broke his heart, in which he passed a list of his illnesses and miseries. Without a penny in his pocket, Platko had sent letters to the Barça offices asking for financial help until the last days of his life. On September 2, 1983, the Hungarian Ferenc Platko was buried in a modest tomb with his wife in the General Cemetery of Santiago de Chile. ![]()
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