Csillag Péter - Oldalvonal - A Hungarian football elfeledett történetei

Football, which became established in the last years of the 19th century, became more than a simple game in Hungary in the course of a few decades: it permeated the fabric of everyday life, seeped into social relations and politics, and made its impact felt in cultural life and during major and minor historical storms. The legendary, great figures of Hungarian football history hardly need to be introduced to anyone nowadays. But what about those who were undeservedly forgotten by posterity, who worked for Hungarian football as quiet background figures, coaches, sports patrons, or just football-loving citizens? Who remembers Ferenc Hirzer, the former celebrated Juventus top scorer, György Gierling, the Marosvásárhely team captain who visited the Soviet camps, or József Perényi-Pecsovszky, who survived the siege of Budapest hiding in a factory chimney in Újpest? What did football know that between the two wars, counts and barons, wealthy business magnates and prominent church figures alike thought it important to stand behind a team? What did the sports leaders who played cards in the cafes of Budapest think about football, and what did the inhabitants of the sometimes tragic fate of the remote villages? How did the game enchant Jesuit monks, talented young sculptors, mayors and gypsy primates alike? After Péter Csillag's two highly successful books - in Ady stoplis, which shows the relationship between classic Hungarian literature and football, and Goalkeepers and enforcers, which depicts the relationship between football and history - this time, he does not focus on "big-field" stories: forgotten football heroes, mysterious figures, stories lost in the past they come to life in his writings, flashing the uplifting or even tragic fate of a person, team or course, and through it the larger processes taking place in the background. PÉTER CSILLAG (1983) Junior Prima, Gyula Németh and MSÚSZ award-winning journalist, historian, senior employee of National Sport. He is the creator of the country-traveling series Hátsó füves, which presents the hinterland of Hungarian football, an on-site correspondent for three World Cups, three European Championships and five Champions League finals. His primary area of ​​interest is the historical, social and cultural aspects of football.