@@joekavanagh7171 Another sad fact is that Hungarian football has declined on the international stage ...lets hope that one day it reemerges and wins a world cup.
I was a young, football crazy, lad,when this game was played,and I remember it as if it were yesterday. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Puskas! The mere sight of his name in print and I still get goose pimples. What a genius he was. He is in my top players of all time list ,alongside Alfredo de Stefano;John Charles; George Best; Pele,and Johan Cruyff.
Homer P. Hendelbergenheinzel Not at all, but modern day players are simply prima donna's, and I have little time for them. I wouldn't waste my money on watching any game now. I don't even watch TV live games.
England in 1996 had an average team who only got to the semis because they played at home and were helped by the referee against Spain in the quarter final.
What a great team the Hungarians were ! Way, way ahead of their time - compared to England, they look modern. Hidekguti playing as a deep- lying Centre Forward - a false 9 ! 60 years before it became fashionable ! Puskas. Czibor. Hidekguti. Koscis. What a brilliant team.
Looking at these highlights again, it looks decades into the future the way the Hungarians played. My Dad was at the 1960 European Cup final at Hampden (Real v E Frankfurt)- he reckons these 2 games have been the most trailblazing to have been played on British soil.
I think the match was a real wake-up call for English football. From what I've been told England thought this would be an easy game. However, no one had told the Hungarians. The result in Budapest was even more humiliating for England.
My father and low,was a player in nacional team of Uruguay in the world cup 1954.He told me,he never has seen before a team liked that Hungary .Also he told me,the Germany team played the final match under Pervertin drug.The name the my Father and low was Maceira Julio,goalkeeper reserve the Uruguay team.
I would love to see Hungary back where they belong - right at the top of world football. I think you need a top-class international coach, someone like Lippi or Guus Hiddink
We have managed to qualify to EURO 2020, and succeed to climb to the A group of the nations league as well, which means that we have really great chance for the next world cup, and EURO 2024 😁😁😁 there are a lot of happy hungarian football lovers right now as you can imagine
Referee wearing a blazer .... marvellous... and what a drag back from Puskas 😳 .... from another planet back then .. we deserved that with our hoofball tactics ..good job sir Alf was taking mental notes .
After the slick beating of Wright, he only had one thing in mind: to aim at the near post with power and a bit of hook. About one of the coolest goal I've ever seen.
Politics played a part in destroying Hungary a small nation and hindering one of the worlds best teams. Remember, this was no ordinary England team. Football lesson number two would soon follow in Hungary. Puskas could have played on any team in any country at anytime.
Hungría era la mejor Selección Mundial de Fútbol - Tenía el Oro Olímpico de Helsinky 1952- Asociaban una refinada técnica con una demoledora contundencia ofensiva- Los aficionados ingleses se deleitaron con ese fútbol casi mágico- Hungría mereció ser Campeón Mundial en Suiza 1954.
Yes that great Hungarian team of the 1950s captained by the "Galloping Major" Ference Puskas would have deserved the accolade as the greatest team in Association Football if not for the 1954 World Cup final 3-2 defeat by West Germany at the Wankadorf Stadium at Berne in Switzerland. That Hungarian team dubbed the "Mighty Magyars" had been unbeaten prior to the World Cup final clash with West Germany captained by Fritz Walter. They were the hottest and overwhelming favourites to win the 1954 World Cup as they were not only the Olympic champions at Helsinki Finland in 1952 but their scalps also included that England at Wembley in November 1953 with a 6-3 scoreline and six months later at the Nep stadium in Budapest they thrashed England by an even more convincing scoreline of 7-1. And England legends Billy Wright,Tom Finny and Stanley Matthews were in the England team that was outplayed and outclassed by the Hungarians who in the 1950s had revolutionised football.Playing that afternoon at rightback was Alf Ramsey who thirteen years later would win the World Cup for England as manager. But that afternoon England were humiliated at Wembley by Hungary and their style of play as if from another player.So mesmerised by the Hungarians that afternoon was the England skipper Billy Wright who couldn't believe that Puskas could side step him and pull back the ball to shoot the ball past a hapless Gil Merrick. But then it wasn't to be a memorable day for Puskas and his team mates as they faced West Germany in that illfated World Cup final. Puskas himself wasn't hundred percent fit as he had been injured when Hungary trounced West Germany 8-3 in a group match.But the same opponents whom the Hungarians had conquered were the team they must beat to win the World Cup. Hungary had been playing very well even without Puskas beating Brazil and Uruguay by 4-2 margins in the quarterfinal and semifinal respectively.But why at the last minute Hungary had chosen to field Puskas as he was not fully fit after that tackle by Werner Liebrich. That afternoon Hungary despite leading 2-0 in the end had to concede defeat 3-2 and thus the greatest team ever didn't win the World just like Holland twenty years later in the 1974 World Cup final with West Germany. Incredibly as it may sound but that defeat to West Germany in the 1954 World Cup final was their only defeat in an otherwise perfect unbeaten record from 1950 to 1956. But then the Hungary Revolution in November 1956 put paid to Europe's finest ever post war national team.
After the match one of the Hungarians was asked `when did you think you were going to win the game?` His reply was ` when we saw the England players smoking in the tunnel 5 minutes before kick off`
How relaxed is that Engish crowd? I mean watching them getting completly torn apart where if they lost only by one goal today the whole stadium would be jeering so heavily. It's a shame Hungary today are no longer at a standard like they were then, even more of a pity they never won the world cup with a strong team like that.
Seen the game on a TV science teacher built so happy to live this long never forget told my son about it loved the Hungary since that magic day now 80yrs
Hungary are brilliant in this, their 3rd and 6th goals particularly. See no reason why they wouldn't give any of today's international teams a good game.
+Andrew Whitworth As brilliant as they were, they would be torn to shreds by even a third league team of this day. A lot has happened in football in the past 50 years: today's players physical fitness is inifinitely better, the pace is much faster than it was back then. Also defending players are now much more agressive, and goalkeeping is way more proactive then it was in the 50s. Not to speak about tactical innovations that were implemented through the years... Ofc all this does not reduce a single bit from the fact that the Hungarian team was a great innovator of the game in their days, so in this sense no wonder they were highly sucessful :)
There's no substitute for class,and the Hungarians had it to spare. Re-fitness,well,I take your point,but the difference in skill levels would find most modern teams chasing shadows and sendings off would prove critical for many teams. The modern day trend towards cheating,diving,spitting etc.,didn't seem to infect the Magical Magyars.
They WOULD adjust, but it would probably take a year or two. The changes are massive. But it's true that if they played just off the time machine, they'd be torn to shreds; that's not a fair comparison, though.
A lot has changed since then. In the '70s and '80s we still had good teams even at international level, and technically Hungarian players were yet really good, but phisically they became weaker and weaker; World Cup 1986, Mexico (where the national team has travelled as "top favourite") was the turning point. Nowaday's Hungarian players are far from this level technically, phisically and mentally. You know, these times (and in the previous decades) the Hungarian players used to be the most skilled footballers. Puskás, Kocsis, Hidegkuti, Deák, Szusza, and all the other guys used to play football with rusty tin cans, and balls made of rags in their childhood. And just try to imagine... Whoever is able to control such things with his feet, for him controlling a real football could not be an issue. There are stories told by their teammates, and whoever knew them, whoever met them.... Hidegkuti was able to hit the post in 10 of 10 attempts... Once Kocsis sat on the stairs, and started juggling with a single 2 Forints coin. And he was able to continue it until infinity... Puskás knew eveything of this game, both with his feet, and his mind. He has a saying, that "I loved football. I loved my family, and I was always on the field, I was not interested in anything else. I only felt confident when the ball was with me, or if I could kick in the ball." You see? Only with such passion and attitude could anyone be the "Best of the Best."
I think the main problem would be tactical seeing as teams back then didn't play with a back 4 often only having two defenders. They would get destroyed playing that way against modern teams.
The Hungarians were a lot faster to the ball and played with a much greater tempo. Their short passing was neat and tidy, with ball possession being a crucial part of their game. The Hungarians quickly passed the ball forwards into open spaces for their players to run onto, thus they always held the attacking initiative. They rarely wasted the ball by aimlessly booting the ball upfield. England, on the other hand, had a midfield and full backs who were painfully slow. They allowed the Hungarian forwards far too much space, which was exploited by the Hungarians to the maximum degree. England possessed some great, enterprising forwards, but lack of ball control, the emphasis on delivering long passes and the tactic of dribbling with the ball for far too long before passing it, were to haunt the England team throughout the 50’s.
Yeah, it's pretty clear the big difference there is in midfield and back-half combat (the English players don't even seem to understand the concept, a lot of them were caught sleeping) and the mental and physical fitness of the non-attacking players.
The "Mighty Magyars" handed England their first defeat at Wembley that afternoon on 25 November 1953 winning 6-3.For the first time England had been beaten by a foreign team at home.The Hungarians did just that.Nandor Hidegkuti scored a hattrick and it was revolutionary football at Wembley.But the third goal scored by Hungary was simply incredible.The way skipper Ference Puskas outsmarted England's skipper Billy Wright to rifle in shot by Gil Merrick.
Puskas left foot = magic. This game and the 7-1 defeat in Budapest (1954) were essentially the catalyst in training and tactical changes that lead to England even having a chance of winning the World Cup in 1966. Pivotal games certainly. It's amazing that Hungary didn't win the 1954 World Cup.
That stop needed him. He emigrated to austria where He wanted to play in viena, fifa banned it because MLSZ (Hungarian football community) heard of Him and banned his lisence. Then later on he went to italy lived there for years then one of His Hungarian friend called Him and made Him sure to talk with the Real Madrid Owner in that times, they did Puskás had a little +weight so He had 6 weeks from morning to night He worked out and lost 18kg then He played for Real Madrid in 9 years, after many years of stop He was still a beast and He become the best player of laliga too. He is the best player of 20th century no cap but aswell Maradona, messi, Albert Flórián (the Hungarian golden baller) and many more player are legend from the 20th century. We have now great players with bright future like Szoboszlai Dominik but still Puskás Ferenc is the best hungarian footballer no doubt about that.
Same happened with Germany. Beating Germany 5-1 in their stadium led to a complete reform of German football, leading to their eventual world cup win in 2014.
Too cool for school, that's how good they were. Defecting after 1956 Hungarian Revolution, some of them went on to be part of the legendary Real Madrid dynasty in late 50s and early 60s.
It's great to see the English learnt the lessons of their arrogance after this match. For now we see England regularly winning international competitions and English players and coaches playing their trade in leagues all around the world, absorbing the variety of thinking, cultures and attitudes towards football and tactical thinking, rather than being entirely insular and blaming all the foreigners coming to their league for their not being very good. Oh, wait......
Check out the ref telling the Hungarians to get over celebrating! And nobody tried to put anyone off during England's penalty. That Hungarian side were the best team never to win the World Cup... and were two up in the 1954 final...
I've been watching some Holland v England footage in the build-up to the 1970 world cup. Commentator Barry Davies seemed very patronising towards the Dutch...they seemed to be regarded as fodder for England at that time. 8 years later, Holland had reached two consecutive world cup finals...and England hadn't even qualified! England admittedly have a fine team these days, but their international football history is full of self-defeating exceptionalism.
Well the current chosen method is to mumble through a match filling every audio space with aimless 5 co commentators only to scream the name of the goal scorer when a goal is scored!
Remember that the art of TV commentary was then in its infancy, and even the best commentators had not had a lot of practice. Besides the odd international match, the only game shown on British television was the FA Cup Final. Before Match of the Day came along, Mr Wolstenholme could count on narrating one game a year, maybe two. Furthermore, he was commentating not just for dedicated football fans, but for people who hadn't seen much football and didn't know the game all that well. His commentary sounds basic to us today, but it may have been exactly what such audiences required.
@@robertgregory9896Not true. In the 50s there were plenty of live games - 22 on the BBC in the 1953-54 season alone ranging from this match to Romford v Crook Town in the FA Amateur Cup
Hungary made a revolution in football after the Great War, hungarians came to Brazil for example it was decisive to our own turning point to our (brazilian) football as a professional sport.
Just the look of the teams sets them apart, England looking like old men in longer shorts, Hungary a bunch of super fit young athletes in shorter modern looking shorts.
Landmark in the history of the game but it was the Brazilians who really learned the lessons and developed tactics and formation which underpin the modern game. What the Hungarians brought was flexibility, shorter passing and intensity. It also turned Alf Ramsey into a student if the game. He was the only English manager who went to the 1958 World Cup and saw the tactical innovation of 424 and 442. That is how Ipswich won the First Division title at their first ever attempt. The flowing season all English First Division teams played it. The downfall of English football at the time this match was played was arrogance. They really thought the were the best and had nothing to learn from anyone else. It’s a lot like American car makers: the Japanese taught them how to make cars
According to ELO rank and BBC calculatio "Hungary 1950-54" was the best team in the world ever since football existing. Longest undefeated serial and the way, how they invented revolutionary elements into the football, in few case they was ahead of their age for 60 years...
Hungary had studied the famous Tottenham 'Push and run' team and the Hibernian 'Famous Five'. England had not - and still thought that they could win with the old 'Long ball' game. It took decades for British football to catch up - I am still not sure that we are really there
These guys would visit a bath at the weekend to swim, get some suntan, have a beer, relax AND they played soccer with the local kids. Greetings from Hungary. Edit: BTW, how come this footage is the lowest possible quality...
England, supposed home of football, has only won one WC in '66 plus silver and two bronze medals at EC, whereas Hungary has three golds at the Olympics, silver and bronze, plus two silvers at WC and one bronze at EC.
Schnipp08 The Hungarians outplayed the West Germans and created chance after chance. It was their attack that was the problem with so many missed chances. Plus you can never write off any German football team!
