György Szöllősi, editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport, would have opened the jubilee 25th Árpád Cup on Friday morning at the request of the Chicago Hungarian Cultural Council. However, the sports diplomacy failed.
At the invitation of the Hungarian community in Chicago, he would have participated in the traditional football tournament of North American Hungarians, the now 25th anniversary Árpád Cup, which was opened on Friday morning by György Szöllősi, editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport, at the request of the Chicago Hungarian Cultural Council.
However, the plan went up in smoke after the US Embassy in Budapest refused to grant me a visa, despite an official visa request from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- wrote on Szöllősi's social media page.
He continues his post as follows: "all this is particularly incomprehensible because I was denied entry as a journalist and as an official representative of Hungary, as an ambassador. It's not the personal injury that hurts - although it's quite heartbreaking that I became persona non grata in the USA and it would have been important to meet Hungarian friends and fellow sportsmen in the United States - but the humiliation that caused my country and the press, which was classified as undesirable, the media representative and the family of sports journalists from the United States, which was once the stronghold and vanguard of freedom of speech".
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