Sabo began to play in 1954 for a team of Uzhhorod bread factory and his first coach was Zoltan Gyorfi (Hungarian: Győrfi Zoltán).

[1] Sabo was a member of Dynamo Kyiv when the club in 1961 for the first time gained the Soviet title, breaking the Muscovite spell.

[5] In a 2005 interview, he also said that always wanted to coach the Hungary national team, but the Hungarian Football Federation leaders never gave him a concrete offer.

[6] He also mentioned that in Moscow he was called fascist, because they knew that his father served in the Royal Hungarian Army during the World War II and later was exiled to Siberia.

[6] Sabo said that he became the only Ukrainian who received the medal from the 1966 FIFA World Cup, while at the same time Valeriy Porkujan who also played at the Mundial was left without it.

Sabo also explained that the reason why he refused to travel to Hungary with the Soviet Union national team for the quarter-final game was that he tried to finish his journalist degree in Kyiv University.

[6] In 1970 after a short stint in Luhansk, Sabo for a couple of months was working as a sports correspondent of Ukrainian newspaper "Pravda Ukrainy".