The website of the water polo association announced sad news: the legend of Fradi, a sportsman who served the green and whites for a lifetime, has passed away - Tamás Wiesner is considered by the FTC to be their own dead, Magyar Nemzet wrote .

He was Ferencváros water polo himself: he joined the club from KSI in 1968, spent his entire adult playing career there, and later served the club for two decades as a department manager, when the team experienced another era of success - waterpolo.hu reminded him.

In the 1970s, it was a huge challenge to get into the national team - and in order to travel to world competitions, especially the Olympics, one really had to be among the very best. Tamás Wiesner participated in two European Championships and one World Cup: in 1970, he won a silver medal, and in 1977, at the Jonköping Continental Championships, and at the 1979 Rijeka National Championships, he was a member of the gold medalist team.

Tamás himself later testified about this period, when eleven-man teams could still be nominated for major competitions:

As a contemporary of so many classics, it's no shame that I was the twelfth or thirteenth in line. If I'm nostalgic, I cook with what I have and I'm satisfied with it, I don't feel any sense of deprivation. I was a European champion, a World Cup winner, we won the KEK and the Super Cup with Fradi, there are no coincidences, that's how I was coded

- the website of the association recalled the previous words of Tamás Wiesner.

The green and whites were truly cup specialists at the time: besides Vasas and OSC, the league title was unattainable at the time, but at the same time they often caused surprises in the cup. And not only at home: in 1974, 1977 and 1979, they conquered the KEK Cup, and in the European Super Cup final organized after the last two successes, they also managed to defeat the current BEK winner (first Canottieri Napoli, then Vasas).

In the 1990s, Tamás Wiesner again took on a major role at his beloved club, and as department manager, he played a major role in the fact that the green and whites were able to play in three European Cup finals in four years, and after two losing LEN Cup finals, they managed to win the KEK cup in 1998. Moreover, in 2000, he succeeded in what he could never experience as a player: Fradi's young team surprisingly defeated top favorite BVSC, who had triumphed the previous four years, in the championship final.

Tamás continued to serve Fradi for several years - from 2011, now as department president - and during his 41st season at the club, he once remarked: "I am the oldest non-retired person here." He was both a hard-nosed club manager with first-rate business acumen (and a seventh sense) and the eternal bohemian, from whom we could always count on a few ironic remarks, since for him good humor was the basis of every situation in life.

This did not change even after the retirement years finally came - however, he was not separated from the swimming pool, we were able to meet him regularly at the most important matches. terrible news came that he had suffered a stroke - soon, however, he was able to say the good news himself: he was on the road to recovery. We believed it would stay that way, and we can see him in the stands for a long time, with that never-fading smile on his face.

Now there are no smiles, no good news, only the sad news - Tamás has also moved in with his old teammates, his one-time president, István Szivós, his eternal friend, Gábor Csapó and the rest of his contemporaries, who sadly passed away early.

On behalf of the domestic polo community, the Hungarian Water Polo Association shares the grief of the Wiesner family - rest in peace, Tamás - wrote waterpolo.hu.

Ferencváros announced that it considers Tamás Wiesner to be the dead body of the Ferencváros Gymnastics Club.

Cover photo: Tamás Wiesner (Source: Fradi.hu)