Sándor Gellér

{{Short description|Hungarian footballer (1925–1996)}}

{{Eastern name order|Gellér Sándor}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}}

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Sándor Gellér

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1925|07|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Veseuș, Kingdom of Romania

| death_date = {{death date and age|1996|03|13|1925|07|12|df=y}}

| death_place = Budapest, Hungary

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| position = Goalkeeper

| years1 = 1945–1947 | clubs1 = Püspökladányi SC| caps1 = |goals1 =

| years2 = 1947–1962 | clubs2 = MTK Budapest| caps2 = 260 |goals2 = 0

| nationalyears1 = 1950–1956 | nationalteam1 = Hungary| nationalcaps1 = 8 | nationalgoals1 = 0

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Sándor Gellér (12 July 1925 – 13 March 1996) was a Hungarian Olympic footballer who played as a goalkeeper.{{cite book|author=Bob Wechsler|title=Day by Day in Jewish Sports History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aOTWUl-9LQoC&pg=PA215|year=2008|publisher=KTAV Publishing House, Inc.|isbn=978-1-60280-013-7|page=215}}{{cite book|author=Joseph Siegman|title=Jewish Sports Legends: The International Jewish Hall of Fame|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oZxnNt28DhcC&pg=PA250|year=2000|publisher=Brassey's|isbn=978-1-57488-284-1|page=250}}{{cite web|url=http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/63987/sid/2252/tid/299/tid2/2792/_/1969_European_Championship_for_Men/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120923233837/http://turkey2010.fiba.com/pages/eng/fa/player/p/pid/63987/sid/2252/tid/299/tid2/2792/_/1969_European_Championship_for_Men/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=23 September 2012 |title= 1969 European Championship for Men: Hungary |publisher=fiba.com |accessdate=25 December 2010}}{{cite web|url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0015_0_15093.html |title=Olympic Games |publisher=Jewish Virtual Library|accessdate=25 December 2010}} He was Jewish, and was born in Veseuș, Romania.{{Cite web|url=https://sem40.co.il/214380-.html|title=Еврейский Футбольный Мир – 5.|website=Центральный Еврейский Ресурс SEM40}}{{cite book|author=Andrew Handler|title=From the Ghetto to the Games: Jewish Athletes in Hungary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VJ1tAAAAMAAJ|year=1985|publisher=East European Monographs|isbn=978-0-88033-085-5}}{{cite book|author=Geoffrey Wigoder|title=Everyman's Judaica: An Encyclopedic Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1bZtAAAAMAAJ|year=1974|publisher=Keter Publishing House Jerusalem|isbn=978-0-7065-1412-4}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1K4UAQAAIAAJ&q=S%C3%A1ndor+Gell%C3%A9r+jewish|isbn = 9780805237115|title = The Jewish Lists: Physicists and Generals, Actors and Writers, and Hundreds of Other Lists of Accomplished Jews|year = 1979|publisher = Schocken Books}}

He made no appearances when he was in the Hungary national team at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/1005750 |title=Sándor Gellér |work=Olympedia |access-date=5 November 2021}} He played with Budapesti Vörös Lobogó between 1954 and 1955, and in the 1954 FIFA World Cup for Hungary.{{cite web|url=http://usa.worldfootball.net/spieler_profil/sandor-geller/ |title=Sandor Geller |publisher=Usa.worldfootball.net |date=20 December 2010 |accessdate=25 December 2010}}

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