When Vasas Were the Best Team in the World

In 1968, Hungary’s communist poster boys thought playing Argentina’s world champions in their rabidly anti-communist backyard was a good idea. It was.

Nips out: Vasas in possibly the most transparent football shirts in the world. (1968, Argentina)
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The Nomad in the Truck – Propaganda in the Storied Life of László Kubala.

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It’s 1949 and László Kubala is sitting in the back of a truck, speeding away from the Budapest and the country of his birth under cover of night.

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