US EditionGyörgy Mezey, Who Led the Hungarian National Team to the 1986 World Cup, Has Died
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Due to the death of György Mezey, the Hungarian national football team will take to the field against Armenia on Saturday evening wearing black armbands.
In 1985, he was voted the best national team captain in Europe, and he lived to be 84 years old.
He was considered a contradictory personality. A difficult man. And yet: the last truly successful captain, the last Hungarian coach who built a decisive, consciousness-shaping team for an entire generation. And perhaps the last of those who had real successes, the last one in whom many still believed that something from the memory of Hungarian football could be resurrected from the ruins of the past. Arriving almost from nowhere in the early ei…
György Mezey, a legendary football coach, has passed away at the age of 84. Our team last played in the World Cup with him in 1986, but the collapse at that time, the 0-6 defeat against the Soviets and the early farewell in Mexico have been a sore wound in the hearts of the fans and the players of that time for decades. Mezey also achieved success on the bench of clubs and was the creator of domestic coaching education. Many loved him, of course…
The master coach, whose career was defined by the defeat known as the Mohács of Hungarian football, has passed away. He was 84 years old.
György Mezey, football coach and former captain of the Hungarian national team, has died at the age of eighty-four. The post We received the devastating news: György Mezey has died was first published on Most Hír.
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