A champion without titles or cups
There are those who say that the best team that played football and dazzled the world in the history of football is the Hungarian team, which reached the final round in the World Cup in 1954 in Switzerland. It was a strange phenomenon that only breathed a flood of goals, a team that broke all records. If the World Cup had the same number of current matches as in the 2026 edition, where the number reached 48 teams, its legendary star Puskas would have scored a number of goals that will never be broken, while the cup-winning team is currently playing eight matches. Completely, and one of the oddities of football is that the Eastern European teams, despite their strength, did not win the World Cup. Hungary reached the final twice, in 1938 and 1954, and Czechoslovakia reached the final twice, in 1934 and 1962, without the slightest coronation. Nor did it happen that these Eastern European countries embraced the competition, and Russia’s hosting of the World Cup in 2018 was in the absence of the teams of East Germany, the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia, and Poland, which made Event without coronation.
But the Hungarian phenomenon may not be repeated in the world. Goalkeeper Hedivotti’s teammates traveled to Switzerland in order to bring back the cup, and they were the ones who slapped their rivals two years ago in the Olympic Games. The Hungarians conceded to South Korea with nine merciful goals, because the specialists noticed that the Hungarians refused to score in the second half, and if they had wanted to, the number would have reached twenty goals. Then they collided with Germany and had mercy on them with eight, and they continued the journey and did not spare Brazil with a four and Uruguay, both of whom reached the final round. Previously, Laurent, Bazelli and Lantos were rare football masterpieces. People began to enter the stadiums to enjoy their magic. In the match against Brazil, dozens of Swiss stormed the field in astonishment, while the match was not over yet. Even the English referee, William Ling, who officiated the final match, when they asked him why the Hungarians lost in the final match against Germany, asked his questioner: “I don’t think they lost, are they invincible?”
Hungary, this great football country that was supposed to dominate the competition, has now completely disappeared. It does not have any major players in any major club, and even Hungarian clubs are absent from the European scene. The last notable appearance of the Hungarian national team was in 1982 when they crushed El Salvador, with the largest score in the history of the World Cup, with ten clean goals. But it did not erase the sorrow and sorrow for the 1950s national team, which reached the final, and the Hungarians started it off with two goals in the first eight minutes, and many Germans scored. The radio while they were watching the match over the air in Germany, and they were certain that the result would be greater, and the Hungarians took control, and the Germans did only three attacks throughout the remainder of the match, all of which resulted in goals, and the ball hit the German goalkeeper’s post and crossbar seven times, but did not enter, and Hungary lost, and the world lost the best team in history?
