Hungary-San Marino, World Cup qualifiers: from 20.45 in the Puskás Arena
After 8 days of play, the Hungarian national team is in fourth place in its group with 3 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats. You can no longer reach the first position in the group that is directly involved in the World Cup, but mathematically you can still be second, which is worth a substitute. One of the conditions for this is to beat San Marino, one of the weakest national 11s in the world, with a particularly big goal difference today.
It’s not easy to name the best national team in the world, but perhaps the worst is the worst. Because there are sometimes incredible results from the Oceania about a World Cup qualifier. But the same results are obtained in Asia and the so-called. Also during the CONCACAF qualifiers. There are also big goal differences during European group matches, and
their sufferers can rightly compete for the title of worst national team on Earth at any given time.
San Marino is sure to be an eternal candidate for this title. He played his first match for the national team in 1987, being recruited by UEFA a year later. Throughout its history
played 184 international matches, winning one of them and not defeating eight but losing 175 times.
That is, in 34 years he proved to be better than a team. So it wasn’t complicated to list the winner’s matches (match!). That certain historic meeting took place against Liechtenstein on 28 April 2004, at home. It was a friendly match, nothing more evidenced by the fact that the Maltese game, the work of Lawrence Sammut, was led by two local part-timers. The only goal of the match was scored by Andy Selva in the 5th minute, who made it into the San Marino Gold Book. The big question is whether he will be the only one who can say a winning goal so far in the history of his national team!
In the opening picture: Bálint Vécsei, Dominik Szoboszlai, Szabolcs Schön and Endre Botka, the players of the Hungarian national team in the qualifying match played in the Puskás Arena on October 9, 2021.
MTI / Illyés Tibor