Avosters, informers, politicians ruined the football

• The history of Hungarian football is full of dark spots that the book « Golden Team in Terror » seeks to clarify
• Politicians, seniors and informers were vulnerable to players and coaches
• The aim of the regime was to promote the continuous decline of football, and Hungarian football was reduced due to the system

There are plenty of dark spots in Hungarian football that may never be clarified, but recently published, « Golden Team in Terror », seeks to help them navigate themselves at times. According to the author, Gábor Mező, there are still those who try to make it difficult.

« The players returning from the US tour following the VVK victory were on duty (undressed naked), while Mátrai threw the company. In the locker room, » here is the brick. « … others) ” – a detail from the book that characterized the conditions in Ferencváros. It is absurd to describe it, but it was influenced by a team’s certificates to be a whistleblower in the frame.

But at that time, it wasn’t unusual … much before they did so much, they could. The gold team was smashed, chased by football players, cheated on dagger, and after a conceptual lawsuit, the national defender, Sándor Szűcs, was executed. They relocated clubs, blackmail players, and comrades also competed with each other to make the « team » of state defense, the Ministry of the Interior, or even the Ministry of Defense. The book also reveals that in the fifties and sixties politicians treated clubs almost like glass balls, and did what they wanted with them.

« Yes, but it is important to see that the dictatorship has changed after fifty -six, » Gábor Mező told our newspaper. -The Kádár dictatorship was a much more sophisticated, cunning system compared to the Rákosi dictatorship, so the methods used changed. While during Rákosi, the colors, names, and souls of the associations were taken away and did what they wanted with the players, after 1956 it was rather harmful to talk about Hungarian football, constantly speaking to newer and newer, otherwise brilliant football generations. It is outrageous what they wrote about Albert Flórián. And, of course, it also seemed to be unspoken, but allowed the fur, smuggling, wall positions, pitching, jerking, and then, if they wanted, « scapegoat » was created from a target.

Football players were set up in front of the public as a money -rich, lush, and brilliant (mainly The 1954, lost World Cup final after), most of them have undergone amazing fate. For example, József Raduly spent six and a half years in Soviet captivity, and then he became a national team, and even Nándor Hidegkuti had to change his name (Hidegkuthy) to be acceptable to power. The Golden Team’s stars became traitors, and some could only work abroad if their child stayed at home to blackmail or not « disseminate ».

« There is a barely known quote in Kádár, where he practically says it doesn’t matter if we don’t have a world champion team, » the author said. -The Kádár dictatorship has sought mediocrity in many ways and did not heart the geniuses at all, as they were considered dangerous to the regime. They can be unpredictable, the masses are adorable for them, and they are hard to be overwhelmed – this is what the story of Zoltán Varga said. The regime not only assisted in the steady decline of Hungarian football, but it was also great for football, and it was a serious taboo topic in these works: Hungarian football was not by itself, but was built because of the system.

An average person wouldn’t have thought that In the fifties and sixties Soccer was full of informers.

– This was typical of all areas of life, and renowned athletes – like artists, foreigners, diplomats – could travel a lot, often to the west, and as the Kádár were constantly afraid of dissidents – Many excellent football players left the country Even in the sixties and seventies – it is good for state security to follow everything. It was a terrible system. From this point of view, the story of Dezső Novák, who did not come out on its own, but simply took it out and chose the whisper instead of the expected punishment. You do not need to be released or condemned today, but let’s emphasize that the regime was rotten to the point of the regime, ”said the author at the beginning of the article in connection with the » Nemere « . – The book has a lot of work in the book. I quoted countless historians, journalists, reporters, not to mention the very important interviews in which the world of the late stars, the golden team, talked about their own destiny and lives. I tried to put the mosaics together. Let me thank István L. Pap for the work of the volume. To say, I couldn’t say too many new ones, not very much to György Szöllősi. The conversations with them were also inspired. But let me highlight another sports journalist: I learned a lot from László Kiss at the Hírlap.

We emphasize that stories and destinies of decades ago are read in the book, but the question arises: did the author experience or feel that some people still try to cover up and hide the sins of the past?

– Of course yes, but the situation is better than twenty years ago. Society is changing. Rather, many people paint the seventies and eighties much more beautiful than they were. This is partly typical of older journalists and TVs who lived, traveled, or even stumbled at that time. False nostalgias are dangerous. For example, they seemed to travel freely. For others, the majority, the iron curtain was much more real. Or even the rubber stick. The freezing presence of the labor guard. These opinion leaders, of course, were inquired about talking about their past, better pretending to be more free in the eighties. Free? If this country is free, then Lajos Détári justifies where he wants, not where he wants to, Gábor Mező added.

There was a surprising novelty for him.

– It was all, but most of all, I was really able to do anything and did football players. One with Zoltán Czibor, a Sándor Kocsis. According to the false narrative, they were carried on their palms by the Rákosi, in reality, who were interned, who were executed, or could not be put into the team, recruited others, or simply wrote a new past. This is how Nándor Hidegkuti became a child of a « proletarian woman ». Later, he could go to coach in Italy, but in vain he had to come back. And how could he go out? One of his kids was always home.