A club legend of Ferencvárosi TC, Albert joined the team yet as a schoolboy and spent his whole playing career at Fradi.
He also starred for Hungary, winning 75 international caps and scoring
31 goals. He was joint top-scorer at the 1962 World Cup with four goals
and played a key role in Hungary's third-place finish at the European
Championship in 1964.He stayed loyal to Ferencváros after his retirement as well, actively participated in the club's life and also held administrative positions. Since 2007 the stadium of Ferencváros bears his name.
Albert died in October 2011, aged 70, in a hospital in Budapest after complications following heart surgery carried out a few days earlier.
Albert spent his entire club career with Ferencvárosi TC, where he played from 1952 to 1974. He came through the ranks quickly and made his debut in the senior team on 2 November 1958 against Diósgyőr, in a match in which he hit the back of the net two times. The forward was also spotted by Hungarian national team manager Lajos Baróti in a youth match between Hungary and Yugoslavia,
and not much later Albert already received his first call-up. His first
appearance in the national selection came on 28 June 1959 against
Sweden, who finished runners-up in the World Cup a year earlier. Albert
contributed with two assist to Hungary's 3–2 win over the Scandinavians.
He scored 31 goals in 75 caps
for the Hungarian team, with them he has collected the bronze medal on
both of the Olympic Games in 1960 and the European Championship in 1964.
At the 1962 World Cup, despite Hungary being knocked out in the quarter-finals, Albert, tied with five others, managed to win the Golden Boot Award with four goals.On club level, his biggest success came in 1965, when in the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, Ferencváros, that knocked-out among others AS Roma and Manchester United F.C. en route to the final, triumphed over Juventus F.C. 1–0 in the decisive match and obtained the cup title.
