Under the leadership of national team captain Marco Rossi, Hungarian football has reached a new level, said the legendary football coach Fabio Capello, who presented the award at the M4 Sport - Sportsman of the Year gala on Monday evening, and who also met Viktor Orbán during the day.
Prime Minister Viktor Orbán received former football manager and coach Fabio Capello at the Carmelite monastery on Monday afternoon, Bertalan Havasi, the prime minister's press chief, informed MTI.
The 76-year-old Italian specialist, who led several teams to the Italian league title, won the Champions League with AC Milan, and was the Spanish champion with Real Madrid, told M4 Sport on Monday:
according to him, thanks to the success of the Hungarian national team, more and more young people will start playing the sport, more and more people will believe in football, and thus the sport can develop further.
He added that behind the success is the coach and his staff, thanks to them the players have undergone significant development.
Fabio Capello - who also has ties to Hungary, as his father was born in Hímesháza in Baranya County - spoke about the World Cup in Qatar, which ended last month, which, in his opinion, was exceptionally strong in terms of tactics and the speed of the game.
Before the gala at the opera house, the 11-time Paralympic champion and 17-time world champion alpine skier Henrietta Farkas, who also contributed as an award presenter, also made a statement: she told the National Sports News that it was a great honor to be the guest of honor of the event. He talked about the fact that he announced his retirement before Christmas, so now he was able to accept the invitation, which he had not been able to do before. The visually impaired Hungarian athlete from the highlands revealed that it was not easy for him to make the decision to retire.
I lived for skiing for the last almost twenty years, I did it with all my heart and soul, I really enjoyed it all, but I had a feeling that I should move on, I also felt that my body was getting more tired during the preparation and the many trips, and also my many operations was - he said.
Source: Hungarian Nation
Featured image: MTI/Tibor Illyés
