Gabor Kiraly still playing ?
You have a big problem to raise young footballers. Your youth sectors lie and squeeze. If the last Hungarian player I know is Kirali
oh w8 ... yet Nikolic. He's probably in the MLS now. But he was a good striker at Legia Warsaw.
just retired. it was about time, he made tons of blunders this season. his performance was one of the reasons why haladás got relegated. btw he has a goalie school (
http://www.kapus.eu/en/index.html) in his hometown and one of my friends is a trainer there. good lad, but failed to realize that his time was up. he got booed week in, week out during this season.
you're right about the youth sector. there's too much money involved, and it affects performance and motivation. we had dárdai (former hertha youth and senior coach, hertha legend along with király) at the national team, and the national association failed to listen to his suggestions. the association paid tons of money to a belgian group to assess and evaluate the national youth system, and failed to implement any suggestions made by the belgians. football wise we are a failure since '86.
you see, you mentioned two hungarian players, and one of them, nikolic is a serbian guy, his success has nothing to do with the hungarian system. btw he's a good striker, was top scorer for 3 leagues already (hungarian, polish, mls). played 5 years for the same club that met chelsea this season (vidi fc, formerly known as videoton), was coached by paulo sousa, and scored a nice goal against sporting (at around 2:00):
as a key player for some well known teams, we also have gulácsi (leipzig goalie), had gera at fulham (scored 2 goals vs juve in that famous el return leg) and some other english clubs, dzsudzsák at psv, and that's basically all of our eruopean level players from the last 10-15 years. not a lot from a nation that played 2 world cup finals.
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The advantage of getting to play in Europa League as one of the wealthiest clubs in football. A competition with an extra knockout round too.
Conte won 37 matches his first year at Chelsea, without getting to play in Europe and pad that total against awful teams. He did it by putting up 93 points in the premier league.
yup, conte's winning % was higher from fewer matches. i rate him over sarri. still, sarri had a good season with chelsea. i hope they keep him. :xfinger: