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Place of Birth: Budapest, Hungary
About Alex Tarnoczi
- Sándor "Alex" Tarnóczi is a retired Hungarian football (soccer) player who spent eleven seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League and American Indoor Soccer Association. Tarnoczi, a native of communist Hungary, fled his country along with Julie Hegyi for the United States in November 1980.
- At the time, both were playing for Csepel SC on a tour of Yugoslavia.
- The two men walked away from their team and took a flight to Rome where they contacted agents of the Hartford Hellions of the Major Indoor Soccer League.
- The Hellions then signed them both and cleared their way for immigration into the United States.
- Tarnoczi spent one season with Hartford.
- He moved to the New York Arrows for the 1981-1982 season.
- On December 24, 1981, the Buffalo Stallions purchased Tarnoczi's contract from the Arrows.
- He began the 1982-1983 season in Buffalo before moving to the Cleveland Force during the season.
- On December 12, 1986, the Force traded Tarnoczi to the New York Express for a first round draft pick in the 1987 draft.
- The Express withdrew from the league and folded at the All Star break.
- On March 13, 1987, the Dallas Sidekicks signed Tarnoczi on a ten-day contract.
- Six days later, they placed him on a contract until the end of the season.
- Tarnoczi then joined the Canton Invaders of the American Indoor Soccer Association.
- He was captain of the Invaders during their 1988-1989 championship season.
- In the fall of 1989, Tarnoczi joined the Dayton Dynamo.
- In January 1990, he moved to the Chicago Power.
- He began the 1990-1991 season with Chicago.
- He played the 1992-1993 season with the Invaders.
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