Statues of Budapest – The Boys of Csepel

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Some of you may know that I also run @statuesofbudapest over on Instagram. It’s been a richly rewarding project for me, and occasionally I’d like to share a post or two with you all. Here’s the first.

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Nowadays Csepel FC are a struggling team in the Third Division of Hungarian football. They play in a small, rundown stadium in the XXI District. But they used to be contenders, winning the Hungarian league four times in the 40s and 50s and boasting a team with not one but two members of the famous Golden Team of Hungary. This statue depicts Zoltán Czibor and Jozsef Tóth, who had wildly different careers. They both played in the 1954 World Cup (Hungary were heavy favourites but lost in the final to a resurgent West Germany in a game called The Miracle of Bern), Tóth spent his whole career at Csepel, whereas Czibor left the country during the 1956 Revolution and went on to play for Roma, Barcelona, Espanyol…even in Canada. This statue is right in front of the Béke téri Stadium and was created by Tibor Budahelyi and Márk Lelkes in 2017. I enjoyed my jaunt to Csepel and photographed quite a few statues in the area. Are there any other parts of Budapest I should visit that I haven’t already. Maybe you have a few interesting statues near you that I should come and see? Let me know.

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