[1] In 1938 he was part of the team that lost the World Cup final in Colombes, France, with 2–4 to Italy.

There are reports that he may have spent 1957 in Luxembourg, where his compatriot Nándor Lengyel was coaching the national team in this period.

It is generally said, that he moved to Australia in the late 1950s, and that he may have coached St. George Budapest, a club run by Hungarian immigrants there.

There is a record of a man named Antal Szalay with the birthdate of 3 March 1912 who has died from a heart attack on 10 May 1959 in Olary in the outback of South Australia, circa 120 kilometres west of Broken Hill.

[2][3] This would imply, that Szalay found employment within the context of the local Radium Hill uranium mine.