Jenő Knézy, the legendary sports reporter, would have been 80 years old on August 19, but he has been gone for 21 years. We remember him with his son Jenő Knézy.

He graduated as an agricultural mechanical engineer, but sports were his everything, so when he applied to Hungarian Television's Pályabélépő sports reporter talent search, everything was decided. For decades, he broadcasted sports, Good evening, good support! and the term became his trademark. He was only 59 years old when he died in 2003. His son, Jenő Knézy, also became a popular sports reporter, an employee of MTVA, and as he told Mandiner, his father has lived there ever since and when he has to make a decision, he always asks himself what his father would do in that situation. "When you get older, and I am over fifty, the guidance of parents and grandparents, the ideas we received from them, become more valuable.

I'm the same with dad. It's becoming clearer to me what it was like. He is an upright, upright man who stuck to his principles to infinity, even though he lived through difficult historical periods" 

says Jenő Knézy.

Jenő Knézy was born in Nagyvárad in 1944, in the hell of war. As a child, he saw the uplifting revolution of 1956, as a counterpoint to the communist reign of terror, and spent most of his life in Kádár's socialism.

"Yet he was able to get up every blessed day with a straight spine and go to Hungarian Television"

- continues Jenő Knézy, who now also understands when he was young why his father told him which book to start Márai with... Although he has been gone for 21 years, according to the son of the excellent sports reporter, people fortunately do not let him fall into oblivion his father's work. "Every day, someone comes to me several times to tell me what a good reporter my father was and how sorry they are that he is no longer with us. I often hear personal, kind stories about him, and that's good, comforting.

Dad is constantly present and continues to live in me, and whatever decisions I make in life, I always think about what he would say and how he would evaluate the situation." 

The entire article can be read on Mandine!

Featured image: Jenő Knézy was born eight years ago, but he has been gone for 21 years. Photo: MTI/Imre Földi