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The fact that Kocsis and the Hungarian team of 1954 failed to win the World Cup remains one of football's most significant injustices.
The remains of Hungarian football great Sandor Kocsis, a forward on the famed Golden Team in the 1950s and later for Barcelona, have been repatriated and will be buried in St. Stephen's Basilica ...
Known as ‘Golden Head’ due to his amazing abilities in the air, Kocsis (Budapest, Hungary, 1929 – Barcelona, 1979) escaped from Hungary in 1956 following the Soviet intervention in his ...
The series Reliving The Biggest Stage of Football comes to a little break before summarizing the later World Cups.
Sixteen years after Kocsis’ heroics, Gerd Muller joined him in the back-to-back hat-tricks club. A penalty-box predator supreme, he opened his World Cup account in West Germany’s first game at ...
Ashes with the remains of Sandor Kocsis, a member of the 'Magical Magyars', the Hungarian team that astonished the world of football in the 1950’s, now rest in Saint Stephen’s Basilica in ...
Hungary, went into the tournament as Olympic champions and favourites, having not lost for 28 internationals. A team including Ferenc Puskas and Sandor Kocsis duly reached the final, but surprisingly ...
Titled "China with a Hundred Faces," the book by writer and publisher Andras Sandor Kocsis was launched at a ceremony attended by prominent cultural and political figures, who hailed it as a ...
This was the tournament that should have seen the iconic Hungary team of Ferenc Puskás and Sándor Kocsis rightly crowned world champions.
Known as ‘Golden Head’ due to his amazing abilities in the air, Kocsis (Budapest, Hungary, 1929 – Barcelona, 1979) escaped from Hungary in 1956 following the Soviet intervention in his ...
This was supposed to be a shoe-in for Hungary, who went into the tournament as Olympic champions and overwhelming favourites, having not lost for 28 internationals. A team including Ferenc Puskas, ...