Best player never to play for AWs

The third goal in this clip.

Ahhh Israel that's right. I remember being horribly pissed the night before and feeling very unwell in the main stand at Mt Smart

Bob Wilson [swoon]

Was there too. Girlfriend on one side, mother on the other, both screaming throughout. Ronnie Rosenthal got yelled at quite a bit.

And I have just realised that was 30 years ago. 30 years! Probably half the regulars here weren't born!

Nice goal from Malcolm Dunford there though. Dura and Siggy should watch! 

Colin Walker was a hero at the club,  lots of us kids (at the time) were Colin Walker in our kick abouts.  There was another player we had a couple of years before him at Gisborne called Richard Dawson,  best player to ever be at the club,  I think he was only there for one season and then back to the UK.  Had some health issues or an accident and never kicked on,  but he was ruthless in front of goal

Lionel Messi

Does anybody know if Lotsy or Andy Polyansky are still around,or any of the Hungarian side,Graham McDowell,Julius Beck?

Any old Hungarian shirts still exist,I have one,must be quite rare

That is Hungaria,

Hi,do you know if the Polyansky brothers are still with us?

I sure hope so. I played against both of them.

I would say that the old Hungaria shirts would be very rare - white with one green and red hoop. Bear in mind though that Wellington City played in those shirts for a lot of their existence. Wellington City ones would have a badge on them , the Hungaria ones probably not.

Lotsy passed away last year

Andy is still around lives in Titahi Bay with his son, Dean

Julius Beck is in Tauranga these days

Imre Kiss is in New Plymouth, still fit as, one of those guys that looks about 20 years younger than he is

Lotsy Varga is in a home in New Plymouth  think he is suffering from dementia

Stefan Nemet passed away a few years ago now

Steve,you are the only other person I know who has one,any chance of a photo mate,I am a collector of anything Hungaria or Wgtn City,interested in buying if your selling?

Karma, thanks for that,really sorry to hear about Lotsy Polyansky,I am in London at present,got stuck here with this virus,have been trying to get in touch with some of them with no luck,facebook etc,do you have any contacts.Would love to talk to Julius Beck or Andy etc,regards Tony.

Thats wonderful mate,that Hungaria team is legendary,who did you play for?,it seems football has gone backwards since the 60s and 70s in NZ,I remember going to Newmarket Park and it was packed,over 10,000 sometimes,

Big Pete,Yep Gisborne City were a great club,watched them at Newmarket Park heaps of times from Alan Vest days to Keith Bowley times,wonderful

Barrie,you don't see games like those anymore,there was a real atmosphere about them,places like Gisborne have gone down the plug hole,it was a huge club

Bloody amazing some of those guys are still around given the smokes and grog some of them used to put away. Some brilliant memories watching those guys toy with the opposition. Bloody sure had they put their minds to it and trained and got fit there wouldn't have been many teams that could have stayed with them. 

Would love to see a photo sometime when you can,awesome mate,didn't Hungaria have a badge on their shirt in the later years when they were in the Central League around 75,Graeme McDowell was still playing for them then.

I went to a Stop Out V North Shore game at Te Whiti Park back in about 75. BIG crowd there for that one too. Steve, any pics of you as a player??

Jack,are they still playing at Te Whiti Park?

Has anyone got photos of Hungaria,apart from the common ones? I am getting a Hungaria jersey made with L Polyanzsky on the back,Mark of respect to a great player,saw him once when I was about 8 at Newmarket Park

Any contacts to Hungaria dvd would be greatly appreciated

Hungaria fc that is.

Our shirts didn't have badges,reading this has brought back some good memories of going to watch them play. Remember one day at the Basin when Lotsy and Andy got really pissed off with the reefing. Again LOL. So for awhile all they did was pass backwards and forwards among them selves was a crack up and opposition got more and more PO. Today that team would  probably be lauded for their skill sadly not many thought that back then.

Was good going to the Basin in those days was generally a good crowd most games and  Chatham Cup final was always a good day out 

That would be brilliant, but unfortunately none of the TV footage was kept - I've tried hard to locate some

Two years a go I wrote a book for Wellington United's 125th and included a sizable chapter on Hungaria as after the merged with Wellington City, City merged with WDU to form Wellington United and quite a number of Hungaria players also played for WDU (and a couple still come and watch United)

We don't have any hard copies of the book left but should be able to sort out an eletronic copy

This is a video we put together for the event and has a fair bit of Hungaria and Hungaria players in it 

For shirts etc - they are quite rare, about three years ago the Hungarian embassy made up a set and presented them to the members of the Hungaria team (Men and Women - Hungaria were the first women's club in NZ as well)

send me an email at davewebsterdufc@gmail.com and I can send you more stuff and give you a couple of contacts

 Football is still played at Te Whiti Park but Stop Out moved many years ago to Hutt Park where they now have a very good complex

Yep,remember those big games at Newmarket Park, Mt Wellington v Chch Utd days,especially in the earlier days around 1972-75 they were huge,10,000-15,000 at a lot of them, Graeme Dacombe,Brian Hardman,Victor Pollard,

Had one of those car stickers in the early 70s

Step Out with Stop Out

Top league soccer Te Whiti Park

Jimmy Cudd ?

Te Whiti Park is the home of Wellington's Gaelic games now, I think

Is this Alf Stamp that played for Caversham,way back?

I am looking for Hungaria and Wgtn City shirts,if anyone ever comes across one,or Wgtn City green tracksuit top

Jimmy Cudd was a real talent. I believe, but may be wrong, that he got a call up at one point without taking the field.

Sam Jasper