Marco Rossi: I want to bring back the football euphoria!

New Hungary Men’s head coach Marco Rossi gives mlsz.hu an exclusive interview in which he discusses Hungary, his special connection with the Hungarian people and how for him, being appointed national team coach is a great responsibility.

“It is a huge honour for me that the MLSZ leadership made an approach regarding the head coach’s position“, Rossi told mlsz.hu. “At the same time, I’ve started to feel the pressure on me too, because

I know how much the Hungarian people love football and how much they would like the national team to be successful.

I am thankful to MLSZ President Dr Sándor Csányi for his trust in me but I’m also very grateful to Honvéd too, because they were the team that first invited me to work in Hungary. If Honvéd had not believed in me and not named me Budapest Honvéd head coach, and had we not achieved success with the team, it is easy to imagine that I would not have become Hungary national team head coach either. Naturally, I remain thanful to the DAC leadership who have been very supportive of the current situation and whom – similar to the club’s supporters – I do not want to leave in the lurch, this being the reason why, with due thanks to MLSZ for their flexibility, I will continue to carry out my head coach duties there for the next few weeks while they search for my successor”.

Hungary’s new coach then went on to explain why that taking this position is a dream come true.

“As an Italian, it is with huge pride that I will sit on the bench and fulfil the same role as Gusztáv Sebes did when he led the ‘Golden Team’ and this must be all too true for the players too (following in the footsteps of their predecessors). Naturally, players who are in the best form possible at that given moment will receive national-team call-ups. I’ll only count on those players for the national team who are motivated by the chance to pull on the national-team jersey because this is a huge honour for every footballer”.