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Kecskemeti

Hungary is often the location for big Hollywood movies. Dune, Blade Runner and The Martian were all filmed in studios around the country. But at the moment, it’s a football pitch in Kecskemet, a city some 50 miles south of Budapest, where a Hollywood script is being written.

Back in 2015, when the Hungarian Football Association (MLSZ) expelled Kecskemeti TE from the top flight due to financial reasons and demoted them to the third tier, few would have envisaged that just

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