HUNGARY
Reviving Honved, preserving Kispest
Right beside Honved’s new Bozsik Arena in south Budapest, lifelong fan Istvan Gazso draws an imaginary line. “It was here,” he says, delineating the exact space around him, “where the house was”. He and his fellow supporters who run the independent club museum should know, for they used satellite imagery to detect the exact location of the long-demolished childhood home of Ferenc Puskas and his best friend Jozsef Bozsik, stars of the legendary Honved side of the1950s.
Many talk about Celtic’s triumphant “Lisbon Lions” team of 1967 being born within 30 miles of the stadium – at Honved, it’s measured in metres. As Gazso explains during a later tour of the Kispest Football House three tram stops away, nine first-team players, Puskas included, and six reserves grew up in a block of 32 flats. They were all from the surrounding
