Orbán: Hungary will not be able to organise any major sports events in 2023 and 2024
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Hungarian football is on course to redeem its old glory, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in an interview to Nemzeti Sport online, adding that by 2030 the national eleven would be great again.
In the interview in Qatar, Orbán said:
“Lionel Messi is the greatest; literally the smallest boy that has grown to be the greatest hero.”
He called the competition “unique” for being organised in an Arab country for the first time. “Arab football flashed its real strength through the Moroccan team,” he added.
The prime minister said the Western world had had to learn how to behave according to different rules. “This time they weren’t hosts but guests, yet they tried to force their habits on their hosts…” The Western world, with its “colonial instincts”, has forgotten the adage: “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” he added.
Qatar could have spent their money “on anything” other than the World Cup, but “it is good that they spent it on football,” Orbán said.
He said bilateral ties with Qatar were excellent the country was “a friend of Hungary” with a number of large investments here.
Orban praised Hungary’s Sándor Csányi, FIFA’s vice president, for his initiative to allow players to be in their home countries’ teams even if they had played in the junior teams of other countries. That is why, he said, there were many players in the Moroccan and other African teams who had played, for example, in France as youngsters.
Orban said the “Golden” Hungarian team of the 1950s had been “no doubt one of the best” but “we were not there in Qatar this time because we could not win when we should have.” But Hungarian soccer was improving, he noted. In the 20 years after 1989, Hungarian football descended into darkness, “and it has taken another twenty years to emerge”, but by 2030 it will have “regained its old glory”, he said.
Our Politicians have spent … Somewhere around EUR 2.5 BILLION and counting on football in the past 10 years.
What an investment! People will see what they want to see – go Nemzeti Sport
Go into a central Budapest Hospital as a patient to have your appendix removed and experience the conditions Public Hospitals are in – Disgraceful and 3rd World.
Go into a central Budapest Hospital under the public system to have your appendix removed for 12 days -Disgraceful conditions and the food – disgusting.
Indian fellow patient “cramped” into the ward I was in of 5 males – expressed to me they have better Public Hospitals in New Deli – his home – than what he experience in Hungary.
We are STILL 3rd World in our Public Hospital facilities in Budapest, Hungary.
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