Peter Murphy

PETER MURPHY (Armagh, Northern Ireland, 1971) is an Irish freelance journalist who has been living in Budapest, Hungary, and traveling throughout Eastern Europe since the mid-1990s. Most regularly he writes news and features for Xinhua news agency, as well as the online magazine Transitions Online. His work has also been published in UEFA.com, The Times, The Irish Times, CNN, Global Integrity, CNC World, Radio Netherlands, and the Hungarian daily Népszabadság.

GOLD MEDAL GLORY DAYS

Hungary’s Football Team at the Olympics Between 1952 and 1972 “I really thought our name was on the winners’ medals.Everyone said we threw it all away in 1972,but I told them, it wasn’t a failure,you never know when we will go so far again.”(Rudolf Illovszky, Hungarian football coach) INTRODUCTION At

2012.07.09.

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