Prime Minister Opens Museum Named after Football Legend Ferenc Puskás

There will be a continuation of the myth of the Golden Team, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at the opening of the Puskás Museum in Budapest on Monday. The new museum of football is named after the legendary forward of the so called “Golden Team“, Ferenc Puskás (1927-2006).

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (2nd R), Emilio Butragueno, Director of Institutional Relations of Real Madrid and former Spanish national football team player (2nf L), Mária Schmidt, Director General of the House of Terror Museum (L) and Sándor Csányi, President of the Hungarian Football Association and Vice-President of the International Federation (FIFA) (R) at the opening. MTI/Koszticsák Szilárd

When we set out to rebuild Hungarian football a decade and a half ago, the world’s and Hungarians’ favorite sport was in ruins in Hungary.

It is almost unbelievable that what was once among the best in the world has almost disappeared from the map in half a century”,

the Prime Minister recalled.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán (R), Sándor Csányi, President of the Hungarian Football Association and Vice-President of the International Federation (FIFA) (2nd R), Mária Schmidt, Director General of the House of Terror Museum (2nd L) and Emilio Butragueno, Director of Institutional Relations of Real Madrid and former Spanish national football team player (L). MTI/Prime Minister’s Press Office/Zoltán Fischer

He added that the myth of the Golden Team would be continued. “The goal may be a long way off, but thanks to Uncle Öcsi (Puskás’ nickname) we have never lost sight of it. When we founded a football academy or built a stadium with his name on it, we continue to see World Cup and Champions League finals, dazzling goals, beating England, Germany and Brazil, standing on his shoulders. Sometimes we are already doing it and I believe we will do it more and more,” he said.

⚽ @PM_ViktorOrban: Puskás and the Golden Team did create a world-renowned Hungarian success story, which became a defining generational experience for the whole world. And more than that!

From a historical perspective, it is an everlasting, classic, unavoidable,… pic.twitter.com/8tThQqy249

— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) November 25, 2024

He said that it was a great debt that the Puskás Arena, which fulfilled a century-old dream, could not be declared completed until today. We still owed a debt to Hungarian and world football, to the hundreds of thousands of visitors, to ourselves, but above all to Uncle Öcsi and his brilliant Hungarian team-mates, by erecting a worthy memorial to them here in the stadium named after him, which is now once again world-famous. With the creation of the Puskás Museum, we have now fulfilled this task, said Viktor Orbán.

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