The heated debate was not really conducted, but it turns out that Sándorék Csányi set unrealistic goals for Hungarian football in 2011, even according to György Szöllősi, while the parties have radically different views on the TAO system.
There could have been a heated debate between Victor Egri, a Digi Sport reporter who is leaving in a matter of days, and György Szöllősi, editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport and president of the Hungarian Sports Journalists Association, but the two media personalities have apparently tried to spare each other this time around. (usually we are We are not used to it.)
Of course – at least in our opinion – only Giorgi Zulusi, who as a sports journalist does not hide it
He also considers the newspaper he runs as a tool to promote Orbán’s government.
If you feel the need, more Also campaigns publicly Besides, there is nothing in the world that a monopoly sports newspaper in a country would compulsively express allegiance to a political party.
However, this aspect of György Szöllősi’s work was left almost unfinished by Victor Egri, so the discussion was more about closing football stadiums, losing spectators and TAO.
Of course, the fact that György Szöllősi built his entire argument system on the argument that if the Orbán government did not start pouring billions into the sport in 2010, either by building stadiums in small towns or via TAO, even with the support of MLSZ, then
“Football and sports in Hungary have now stopped.”
Among other things, he built this on the fact that in 2003, in the Hungarian-Estonian friendly match, barely a few hundred people were hanging out in the stands, even the TV didn’t broadcast how we lost; And between 2006 and 2009 he was also Fradi NB II.
According to György Szöllősi, the Népstadion, left to rot, was a symbol of anti-sports socialist governments. Image: VinceB, Wikimedia Commons
Compared to this, Hungarian football is now in a country where, according to him, we play full European matches in the renovated Puskas Arena, there are new stadiums everywhere and 43,000 people attended the FTC-Paks Cup Final. in a European Cup several times.
In recent decades, however, Hungarian sport, like the entire country, was not in its greatest crisis in the 2000s, but in the immediate aftermath of the regime change. On the other hand, neighboring countries have followed a similar economic and social development path.
However, neither football nor their sporting life in general stopped.
In fact, there are clear success stories as well. All this while neither politics nor economic circles close to the government settled on sports in any of them, as they did under the Orban government.
In György Szöllősi’s view, almost every sport-related governmental measure that the government has taken in recent years has been permissible, because it serves such a noble purpose. He has gone so far as to make very light criticisms that maybe TAO funds are not being used in the best way and according to purpose in a hundred percent of cases, or
MLSZ, and Sándor Csányi personally was “totally naive”,
When in 2011 he adopted a ten-year program according to which Hungarian club teams must regularly reach the spring break in international cups, the backbone of the national team should be provided by members of football academies and the average number of spectators. NBI matches must be 8,000.
That’s right, even the editor-in-chief of Nemzeti Sport had a “call” for this: it was not fulfilled because
An anti-sports generation has grown up under left-wing anti-sports governments.
This is what we are complaining about now, and the number of spectators cannot be fully judged because for a long time not everyone could play in their stadium due to its new construction, and then Covid arrived.
The famous 2018 Felcsút-Kisvárda match, in which there were 400 according to MTI and according to Nemzeti Sport 589, but a member of the Cities, Stadiums, Pubs Facebook group counted 60 spectators at the venue Photo: Cities, Stadiums, Pubs Facebook group
On the other hand, Victor Egri tried to explain – when they let him – that the huge amount of resources invested in sports did not pay off well, because not only in football, but also in other spectator sports, we did not achieve qualitatively. Better results in the past 10 years than in previous years, perhaps football matches and the European Championship, Nations League victories, ice hockey team are the exception, but
In football, the Hungarian youth system is not good at the moment either,
But with players who grew up and gained citizenship abroad, a senior captain achieves extraordinary results. Plus, as he points out, volleyball wasn’t originally included in the franchise circuit, but it’s starting to do well regardless, so there’s certainly at least one example in this country that there would be an alternative to pouring tens of billions down the necks of the sports federations involved.
It is noticeable at least that
The private companies that drive the TAO somehow feel they have to support a football club so dear to the PM’s heart
At worst, while, for example, the number of spectators is low precisely because first-class football teams in small towns artificially created by politics will not have even several thousand in the stands.
Henceforth, of course, there was no chance for the participants to come to some sort of consensus, and let’s face it, the evening didn’t bring much new to the audience, who were more or less interested in sports and public life – but at least at the end, when they had to decide Who hands him over to the event’s income (the Underprivileged Athletes Foundation eventually became the runner-up), the discussion devolved a bit into classic Hacsek-Sajó banter and here it turns out that even Giorgi Zulusi has enough of a sense of humor that they can genuinely laugh at each other’s tax forints.
The governing Foundation for Transparent Journalism promised to continue anyway.
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