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What would have been if the Communists didnt go rampant. Hungary might have been an elite team till today.
Communists are long gone and now Hungarians are Putin's most coward puppets, so it must be something with them.. destined to lose, that's their heritage
The true travesty of the communist era laid bare.
They making a comeback
The odds of them having that sort of team again though are tiny. Even brazil struggle to replicate teams like the wc70 team.
If anything communism had a focus on competing at a global level in sports hence why the Soviet Union got to a semifinal, Poland got to two (or three can't remember) and czechoslovakia even won the euros.
they were still a top team well into the seventies (just checked, and i think the first time they dropped out of the Elo top 10 post-WW2 was 1974).
i mean they had a good team, Florian Albert was European Footballer of the Year in ‘67. Just I think they always tried to compare themselves to the ‘52 team and they weren’t able to
I thought 1954 was their peak when they reached the world cup final?
i mean the '52 squad won the Olympics, where they beat Sweden 6-2 in the semi-finals, its really the same squad, just 2 years older. In '54 you also had Puskas injured until finals and such
i mean it’s also would be a ‘what-if’ that if Hungary won in ‘54, does the uprising have in ‘56
Bro what you on about💀
? wdym, it has been written about plenty how the loss was a really bad hit on morale for the Hungarian public, obviously its not the only reason, but it obviously had some part