Category: Olympics and Politics

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

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

The Story of the Hungarian Football Team at the 1912 and 1924 Olympic Games “No one should believe that Hungary is just a poor relation in the line of eternal Austrian dominions. This was the latest step in the recognition of Hungary’s independence.” The above words date back to 1912,