One of the most important football matches of 2023 will be held in Budapest
A few days ago, we took into account the most memorable sports events of the year (among them, of course, the most memorable football matches), but now we have to look ahead: let’s see what interesting football matches await us in 2023. Naturally, we cannot know which will be the best marks this season, but we can know which ones will be worth paying attention to!
Since we are in the dark, there won’t be a really big football event in 2023, nor the Olympics. Although FIFA tries to make the women’s football world championship appear at least as important as the men’s, even today a 32-team women’s football tournament does not take place with such interest that it is a men’s world championship.
It may be that many people will not go to a better football game after the World Cup, but it is certain that sooner or later there will be “acts of withdrawal” from sports lovers.
And there will be plenty of events this summer as well.
National team in the Pusks
For us Hungarians, the most special football match of the summer will undoubtedly be the Europa League final at the Pusks Arn on the last day of the year. There have been three events of this level in the past in our country, but this one is a little different.
The first of the series was called VVK, when Ferencvros played 0-0 with Leeds United in the 1968 two-legged Finnish match in Pest, a year later, Dzsa Jpest lost 3-2 to Newcastle United, and they were named UEFA Cup , when Videoton lost 3-0 to Real Madrid in 1985. Hungary will be the fourth dnt in this cup, it is now a one-game match, and it will probably not include a Hungarian team. Of course, it’s not out of the question right now, since Ferencvros is among the best 16 in the Europa League. The only real soccer day would be if the Hungarian team played in El-finl in Budapest. It would not only be the most important football game of this summer for a local fan!
Ferencvros would have to win three fights to get from Budapest to Budapest, and it doesn’t even have to win to get from Npliget to Pusks Arn, since the the club that won the VVK in 1965 organizes its spring El match (matches?) in our biggest stadium.The first (hopefully not the only) spring meeting in Hungary will take place on March 16. It will only be revealed in the draw on February 24 who the opponent will be. Until then, they are third in the BL groups and second in the El groups They are having a blast so that one of them can fight with Fradi. Learn this!
If the Hungarian champion will still be in competition in the series on the evening of March 16, then two more important matches will be played in April, and another possible schedule should not even be discussed now. The bottom line is that the year before us has at least three very interesting Europa League matches in store for us, but before these, world football still needs a big meeting.
Club Championship and Champions League
The club world championship will be held in Morocco on February 11, if the paper is correct, then with Real Madrid and Brazilian Flamengo competing. It is possible that the Moroccan club team will avoid the Spaniards or the Brazilians in the pre-Finland stage, just as the Moroccan national eleven will avoid the best of the two countries at the World Cup. It is certain that three of the Moroccan national team that won the World Cup are from Wydad Casablanca, but maybe we can say this to both Real and Flamengo: once there was a dog festival in Casablanca, and we will appear in the dnt. In the match won by Casablanca, the opponent’s identity will be determined in the draw on January 13, and then the world will also know that, in case of advancing, the best team between the two teams will play with the Spanish or Brazilian team.
Who will be able to represent European club football at an event like last year will be revealed on June 10 in Istanbul. Because the Champions League final is being held in the Turkish metropolis, at such a late time due to the World Cup being pushed into the season. This will probably be the most popular soccer match of the year in the world. It is certain that last year’s Prizma final won’t be repeated, as Real Madrid and Liverpool will now face off in the top 16 on February 21st on March 15th. and only one of them can remain standing. It cannot be repeated in 2020, because Bayern München and PSG were also affected by fate. The 2021, however, can still happen now, because Chelsea and Manchester City have (for now) avoided each other. However, we know exactly from both English clubs that Istanbul is not only far in the future, but also in time. and it’s hard to get there.
Today in the League of Nations and important qualifiers
Between June 14 and 18, the finals of the League of Nations will be held in the Netherlands, the draw for which will be held on January 25. In the final, World Cup bronze medalist Croatia was defeated by world champion Argentina in the quarter final in a penalty shoot-out, Spain, which failed not only professionally, but morally as well, and the European champion, Italy, missed out on the World Cup. The latter overtook the Hungarian national team at the last moment in the group stage, br – let’s be equal! – the compatriots of our captain, Marco Rossi, proved to be better than us based on the two points.
This second place in the NL group still has a lot to gain, since if the Hungarian national team fails to finish in the first two places in its group during the Euro qualifiers, then – again – it could lead through this series among the best 24 national teams of the continent. but in this qualifying round it would be possible to get (at least) the second place. For those who don’t remember the draw opponents: Lithuania, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia. The series begins on March 27 with a home match against Bulgaria, and ends on November 19, at Pusks Arn, against Montenegro. In the spring, it will be the Hungarian-Bulgarian one mentioned earlier, two more will meet at the beginning of spring, and the other three will be arranged in a circle. The matches against the Serbs will be held back-to-back, in the fourth and fifth rounds, we can say that the away matches on September 7 and the home matches on October 14 will be the most important matches of our national team this year, but this – due to the aforementioned two advances – is not necessarily true , because if Rossi’s team does not score a single point against our southern neighbor, they can still advance. At least not so much smiling, but who cares about that if you can be there at the German physics event! In other words, our national team plays eight scheduled matches this season, and it will only be possible to state which are the most important.
It is not possible to say now which will be the most interesting battles in other groups from the point of view of advancement, it is certain that there will be two such battles that will be a real treat. In Group AB, the Netherlands and France meet for the first time on the opening day (then on October 13 for the second time), even in the C group, Italy and England meet twice (March 23 and October 17). These marks may be the most interesting, but they hardly decide on progression, at most the first and second place in the group.
In addition to men’s football, it is worth mentioning that from July 20 to August 20 there will be a women’s football championship in Austria and New Zealand, unfortunately without Hungary as a representative. The Hungarian national team collected 9 points from eight matches and finished fourth in its group. it only reached the Faroe Islands. However, we will have a game leader at the event, member of the Vad family, well-known in the community, Anita, will travel as an assistant. His grandfather, Istvn the Younger, and Istvn’s first name, was a much more well-known brother, while his older brother, “Vadkett”, was very well-known. Especially because of the mistake he made in the Ukraine-England match at the 2012 European Championship, which turned out to be a disaster for the footballer. last press release, in addition to the introduction of hotline technology, Remljk’s daughter will soon be active on the southern slopes only bringing ideas!