Although the Hungarian national football team lost 2-0 at home to the defending European champions Italy in the last round of the Nations League, they missed out on a place in the final four, but their performance in the six matches was outstanding, and the team far surpassed it. the prior expectations.
The last match will forever be remembered for the farewell of Ádám Szalai, as the captain said goodbye to the national team, as well as the way the more than 60,000 spectators celebrated the national team. Let's celebrate too, because we "have a team" again!
We can't even count, and we don't want to, how many times and how many times we heard in stadiums during and after a national team match from the mid-90s to the mid-2010s, i.e. for about two decades, as the fan base chants desperately asking, to "Where's our team?"
Well, now we can definitively say that we have a team.
After the euphoria of the 2016 European Championship, it disappeared, but never like before. In addition, the fanbase, with which the national team became almost one, stood behind it even in the most difficult times, gave the players faith and dragged them back to the field.
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With this match, Ádám Szalai said goodbye to the national team and the fantastic fan base: "If we look at where we've come from, then we have to thank Marco Rossi, who together with his staff put together a team that performs beyond their strength. I hope that in the coming years all our young talents will mature and we can continue this journey," said Ádám, who wore the crested jersey 86 times, thus surpassing Ferenc Puskás and joining Gyula Grosics in seventh place in the all-time ranking.
The national team will next play in November: first in Luxembourg on the 17th, they will be the guest of the home team in the Nations League C class (who played 3-3 with the Turks who won the group, e.g. in Istanbul), and three days later, on November 20, in the Puskás Arena welcomes the Greeks. As we wrote above, it will be the official farewell match of former team captain Balázs Dzudzsák.
Source and full article: Origo
Featured image: Origo/Sándor Csudai
