{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"Laz\u0103r Sfera (29 April 1909 \u2013 24 April 1992) was a Romanian footballer who played as a defender and occasionally as a midfielder. A native of the Banat region in Austria-Hungary, he was briefly included in the Romanian Yugoslav community. In the 1920s, he moved with his family to Timi\u0219oara, which had been secured for the Romanian Kingdom. It was here that he began playing a variety of sports, including street football. The boy was discovered by the scouts of Unirea CFR, which became his first club. In 1925, Sfera joined Politehnica Timi\u0219oara's first-ever youth squad. Two years later, he was promoted to the main team, where he came to be mentored by Tony Cargnelli. Sfera impressed the Timi\u0219oara fans with his performances in local derbies, and had a stint at Banatul. However, he decided to focus mainly on his education: moving to Cluj for a chance to attend its business school, he played for Rom\u00e2nia Cluj (1929\u20131931) and Universitatea (1931\u20131934). Upon graduation, Sfera took the option of relocating to Bucharest, signing up with Venus Bucure\u0219ti (and marrying his boss' daughter); in subsequent matches against Universitatea, he was sent off for participating in violence against his former teammates. He also became entangled in political controversies, being upheld as an ally by the far-right of Romanian nationalism at a time when many Divizia A players belonged to ethnic minorities. Sfera and Gheorghe Albu together formed the core of Venus' defense, helping the team win three successive editions of Divizia A.","birth_date":"1909-04-29","birth_place":"Lokve","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":45.152778,"longitude":21.031111},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q1080830","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1080830","canonical_name":"Laz\u0103r Sfera","canonical_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/5d77f0f2cc53a07055105a45","citizenships":["Romania"],"death_date":"1992-08-24","description":"Romanian footballer (1909-1992)","external_ids":{},"full_name":"Laz\u0103r Sfera","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":[],"birth":[],"native":[],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["association football player"],"official_websites":[],"photo":{"author":"Unknown authorUnknown author","license":"Public domain","license_url":null,"source":"Wikimedia Commons","source_url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Laz%C4%83r_Sfera.01.jpg","url":"https://instaget-public-commons.tor1.cdn.digitaloceanspaces.com/public/commons/f6c07cf30632a169791636277f7965864180466b4bfd707e890f7ef56d1ed07a"},"profile_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/5d77f0f2cc53a07055105a45","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:16:33Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579777"},"public_hash":"5d77f0f2cc53a07055105a45","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{},"tags":[{"key":"category:sports","label":"Sports","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:association football player","label":"association football player","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:lokve","label":"Lokve","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:romania","label":"Romania","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q579777","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q579777","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laz%C4%83r_Sfera"}