In black and white: this is where Hungarian football is at today

Vg.hu’s article reports about the current status of football and future perspectives. As the sports economics expert says, it is very unlikely that progress will be made in the near future, either regarding the national football team or clubs.

We have already written about Hungarian success stories, such as that of Zsolt Lőw, the recently hired assistant coach of Paris Saint-German, but as other news suggest, Hungarian football does not frequently succeed to make a hit.

Although more people visited and watched matches than last season, Mihály Muszbek sports economics expert says that radical changes are needed for future development and more efficient work. Hungarian football performance was, in fact, less successful and efficient than it could have been expected based on the teams’ position on the FIFA World Ranking Table.

As a consequence of this, the country’s UEFA-coefficient has decreased.

According to the sports economist, only successful training of younger generations can result in a long-term country – and Europe – wide success. As a comparison, France’s younger teams performed extraordinarily well in the U17 and U19 classes, while Hungarians could only make it to the best four once, in 2009.

The lack of success in this season is well-reflected in the national team’s total market value, which has decreased from EUR 51.7 million to EUR 35.65 million.