Football has a glorious history in Hungary, due to The Mighty Magyars ("Aranycsapat") who dominated the world’s very best teams in amazing matches during the fifties. Nowadays however, as great as the country is in many other sports, unfortunately Hungarian football is not at its best.
Only twice did Hungarian teams succeed to become part of the most important modern competition, the UEFA Champions League: Ferencváros TC made it past the qualifying rounds in 1995 and now, one and a half decade later, Debreceni VSC (known to locals as "Loki") managed to qualify for the group stage as well.
Two of its matches are already over: DVSC lost the first one against Liverpool FC quite honourably, by only 1-0 on Anfield Road – then followed a sad 0-4 at home with Olympique Lyonnais; today the team plays its third game, this time against ACF Fiorentina.
The match begins at 8:45 PM tonight in the Puskás Ferenc Stadium Budapest and the fight will probably be a hard one since winning is essential to both teams: the Hungarians desperately need to finally score their first point, while ACF Fiorentina has the chance to enter the final knockout phase if the Italians win today.
The following match will be the return on the 4th of November in Florence, then the one against the British team on the 24th of November at home again, and finally the one against the French on the 9th of December in Lyon.
Tickets are already sold out for tonight, but if one is planning an off-season visit to Budapest, the end of November would be a perfect timing to mix... well pleasure with pleasure... with pleasure – spend a couple of days relaxing in the traditional Széchenyi Thermal Bath, see the legendary Liverpool in action, and visit Budapest’s Christmas Fair (about which I will write soon).
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