After nearly three years of lodging in Újpest, Vasas finally returned home to Angyalföld (District XIII) this month.
Continue readingVasas Come Home – The Opening of the Rudolf Illovszky Stadium
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An Interview With Botond Birtalan
Since I’ve been watching Vasas I’ve been astonished by the club’s openness and support. I got to go on a stadium tour, have been welcomed by the supporters clubs and last week I was able to interview Vasas’s free-scoring attacking midfielder Botond Birtalan at the club’s home in District XIII.
Continue reading…with a whimper (Vasas FC vs. Zalaegerszegi)
It’s a beautiful day in Ujpest for the final game of the 2018/19 campaign, and it’s also time to say a not-so-fond farewell to the Szusza Ferenc – the ground that Vasas have been borrowing this year – as the team prepares to move back to Angyalföld and the newly-rebuilt Illovszky Rudolf Stadium.
Continue readingBoro and Vasas: Two very different failures
We’re a day removed from the promotion chances of the both my home and adopted teams going up in smoke. Middlesbrough seemed to be heading for the playoffs before a late Derby charge put paid to their hopes, while Vasas didn’t do themselves any favours by dropping 5 vital points this week. Although Vasas still have two games remaining, a 6 point deficit means there’s next to no way they’re getting out of NBii this year.
Continue readingThe Surge (Vasas FC vs. Kazincbarcikai)
This is a pivotal time for Vasas. An expensive new stadium is nearing completion but the team are stuck in the second division playing villages instead of big-hitters like Ferencváros and Honved. Key players Balajti and Birtalan are on fire, but unless promotion is achieved they’re likely to leave in the summer. Given the team’s reliance on them, it’s vital Vasas go up this term or the next season in NBii will be a very long one.
Continue readingShirt Story #3: Tokyo Verdy (1995 Away)
This lovely shirt arrived via a friend last week. In 1995 Tokyo Verdy were still known as Verdy Kawasaki (despite the badge saying Yomiuri Nippon FC), and were still a successful team in the J-League. They came second this year and also won the Japanese Super Cup.
Continue readingA plague on both your defences (Vasas FC vs. Vác)
Last year I found myself holding two human skulls. The people they were formerly attached to had died from the plague, and I had to identify who was who in order to save another life. I worked quickly; measuring jawbones, assessing facial features and trying not to think about the incessant tick of the clock. I was running out of time…
Comeback Kings (Vasas FC vs. Balmazujvaros Sport)
I got to see the inside of a Hungarian public hospital last week; a hernia surgery meaning I missed the last few Vasas matches. Whilst the aesthetic was a wee bit Cold War and the welcome not as warm as the dear old NHS, I am now the proud owner of three small scars and a fixed stomach – thanks to the staff at Péterfy Kórház for that. And so I managed to get myself up and about in time to see Vasas play Balmazujvaras, a team determined to take top spot from Nyiregyhaza in the “teams whose names I can’t pronounce” stakes.
Continue readingFish in a Barrel (Vasas FC vs. ETO FC Győr)
It’s hard to motivate yourself to write after watching such a complete capitulation. Let’s get the score out of the way early. Vasas lost 4-0 today and – without exaggeration – it should have been at least seven. Győr were incisive, playing dangerous balls through the Vasas backline with alarming and repeated ease. I was surprised by how well the away team played given their league position; their direct, first-touch, purposeful work too much for a Vasas team that seem to have frittered away their pre-Christmas confidence. Tóth and Kelemen in the Vasas defence were bypassed by slide-rule passes to Győri strikers at will, and the pacy forwards gave them a torrid time all game.
Continue reading18 year old Dániel Zsóri just scored a spectacular match-winning overhead kick against the league leaders 7 minutes into his debut.
Debrecen’s 18-year-old debutant Dániel Zsóri officially has nowhere to go now but down.
After scoring 39 goals this season for the Debrecen reserves, Zsóri was brought on in the 86th minute against current league leaders Ferencváros. Debrecen sit in third.
The score was 1-1. It was his debut. He did this…
That, my friends, is a hit and a half.
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