We are slowly paving our way to the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup.*unenthusiastic* Yay! As a celebration let’s discover a bit more about Hungarian football, shall we? Do not worry if you do not like football this post, however seems like it, will not be about our ‘national sport’.
Almost everyone who is into football (this is soccer for you guys from the other side of the world 😀 ) knows Hungarian football=Puskás. The legendary striker of the Hungarian national team and Real Madrid has sadly passed away in 2006. His era – the Hungarian Golden Team‘s era – is long over now for decades but football is still loved and – in my humble opinion – a bit too spoiled by the people even when the quality could only be described with a four letter world starting with S and ending with HIT. We excel in many other sports yet it is still football that gets the most air time on TV…but that’s another story. Let’s make a quick twist into the field where I am a better player.
Our new PM, Gordon Bajnai who has been described by the BBC as a technocrat, the MSZP – mostly Gyurcsány and his clique in the party – calls him the man-for-the-job, the People who has no say in his future gave him the nickname Kordon (Cordon – due to the governments excessive use of cordons since 2006) and the left-wing affectionately refers to him as a butcher/killer (due to the number of suicides suppliers committed after he showed off his managerial skills by driving Hajdú Bét into bankruptcy). Now there is a new name on the horizon: Mr. Player-of-the-year. As it is displayed on 43rd Építők SK’s website Gordon Bajnai was the team’s player of the year in 2001.
Turns out Gordon Bajnai is a signed goalkeeper of the division I/B football club for years now. Still he is not the first ‘professional’ footballer prime minister of the new Hungarian Republic. We had a forward already a couple of years ago, Viktor Orbán playing for Felcsút FC. It says something about a country when its leaders are footballers…that we are a very a sporty nation, of course.
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