He was a member of Romania national football team which competed at the 1930 FIFA World Cup in Uruguay.
He scored a goal in the first minute of his team's first group game of the first football world cup.
[2] Deșu, of Hungarian origin,[3] was born in Gátalja (Gătaia) and started his football career in his hometown.
In 1929, he was called up to the Romania national football team for the first time, scoring in a friendly against Bulgaria.
The chairman of the club where he played, Wolfgang Auschnit, refused to pay him the salary in the period of the World Cup.