Euro2016: This is the Hungarian National Team

Nemzetisport.hu shares the line-up of this year’s national football team, as, after 30 years, Hungarian players get to participate in the European Champs again. The audience may see them playing against Austria, Iceland and Portugal in the group stage. The members of the team are introduced below.

Goalkeepers:

Gábor Király

Number: 1

Current team: Szombathely Haladás

Interesting: Király is going to set a record when he gets to the field, for no one aged 40 (or above) has played at the Champs before. Until now, Lothar Matthaus held the record, as he was 39 years and 91 days old at the time.

Dénes Dibusz

Number: 12

Current team: Ferencváros

Interesting: In the 2014-15 season Dibusz could manage to keep a clean sheet for 7 matches in a row, thus, setting the club’s new record.

Péter Gulácsi

Number: 22

Current team: RB Leipzig

Interesting: Gulácsi’s save percentage is 60%, incredibly, at the U20 World Champs he could save 6 out of 10.

Defenders:

Barnabás Bese

Number: 21

Current team: MTK

Interesting: Bese is the only player who spent every minute of the season (2015-16) on the field and is one of the fastest players of NB I.

Attila Fiola

Number: 5

Current team: Puskás Academy

Interesting: Fiola is known to be a “tough” player in NB I, for he has received 54 yellow and 4 red cards so far, though, as member of the national team he seems to be a “good guy” as he only has 1 card.

Richárd Guzmics

Number: 20

Current team: Wisla Krakow

Interesting: After making a mistake at the World Champs qualifier match against Romania Guzmics was not regarded well by the public, but he managed to get up, improve himself, and now he is going to play at the European Champs.

Roland Juhász

Number: 23

Current team: Videoton FC

Interesting: As many players Juhász also has a MASCOT: for him it is a shin pad. The same one is responsible for bringing him luck for almost 1.5 decades.

Tamás Kádár

Number: 4

Current team: Lech Poznan

Interesting: Visually, Kádár is a rather decorated player; about 30 tattoos cover his body.

Mihály Korhut

Number: 3

Current team: DVSC-Teva

Interesting: Korhut’s career started off a bit slowly: after he was admitted to the junior team for more than 1.5 years he was not counted on, but kept going to the trainings and later, after the change of the coaches, András Gyarmati, the (then) new coach began put trust in him.

Ádám Lang

Number: 2

Current team: Videoton FC

Interesting: According to InStat, Lang, after Michal Nalepa, was the second best centre back player in the NB I of the 2015-16 season.

Midfielders:

Ákos Elek

Number: 6

Current team: DVTK

Interesting: Elek is a left foot player, thus, he was tried in the left back position. However, he prefers to be in the centre, which position is eventually occupied by him in the national team.

Zoltán Gera

Number: 10

Current team: Ferencváros

Interesting: Gera played in England for decades. There he became referred to as The Magic Magyar thanks to his great performance. He played in West Bromwich Albion and Fulham. He scored 31 goals during 254 matches at the English championships.