Puskás was the modern striker...but 60 years ago! Years ahead of his time, a prolific goal machine, a gentleman and a true Legend of the beautiful game.
@@mightytitan1719 mf you acting as if people don’t recognize Pelé as the goat, of course Pelé was better, nobody denies that, but puskas is underrated and is indeed his second, in fact people don’t mention him as much as Pelé, so wtf are you on about?
@@thebudtrender well, stats are stats but modern football its more defensive and defenses and gk actually know what they are doing, so its kind of harder to get these kind of numbers, you can even compare numbers with current scorers and you ll notice such gap between messi and ronaldo agaisnt the rest because they are that insane i think its around 0.8 goals per match let me give you one example pele claims to have scored over 1000 games but FIFA knows better, because some militar games played by pele werent taking in account due to the fact they werent fair play, some games pele even scored over 15 goals agaisnt amateurs, all my respect but it would make no sense taking those games into account, whats next taking goals you do in practice into account? it would put pele with over 1.2 goals per match
@@amarodsv your second paragraph is way out of context. Unlike Pelé Puskas at least scored those goals in official matches and these were for the national team not for the club where Pelé claimed to have scored over 1200 goals. Puskas scored 84 in 85 for his national team do you know how insane that is. Imagine if he had played in those 11 seasons id reckon he’d have over 200 goals. But this is all speculation but stats would back him up. And it’s true that defense is tougher nowadays but what Cr7 and Messi are for us today was Puskas back in the day. A player exceeding all expectations and playing way before his time.
@@kevin8006 maybe you misunderstood me, i didnt mean nothing to puskas but to the sheer extent of bs that pele did in his instagram the day ronaldo surpassed him in goals in officials matchs, the only real difference here between ronaldo/messi and any other legend its the absurd amount of years they been doing it
“I was with Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Puskas, coaching in a football academy in Australia,” George Best once recalled. “The youngsters we were coaching did not respect Puskas, making fun of his weight and age, so he decided to try and hit the crossbar ten times in a row with a shot. “Law asked the kids how many they thought Puskas would get out of ten. Most said less than five. Best said ten. Puskas stepped up and hit nine in a row. For the tenth shot he scooped the ball in the air, bounced it off both shoulders and his head, and then flicked it over with his heel and cannoned the ball off the crossbar on the volley. They all stood in silence and then one kid asked who he was. I replied, ‘To you, his name is Mr. Puskas.'” (please read about his coaching career too)
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT It must be true. He could hit the crosssbar at least 9 times from 10 attempts (some other players were also good at it). He was a magician at shooting. Coaching in Greece once he just shot the ball 2 times in a row into a basketball ring without touching the ring. He could handle a soap with his feet in the shower. People didn't believe what he could do.
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT people often exaggerate a story when they try to remember something that left them a big impression, and to leave a big impression on someone like george best it must be something out of this world even if it's exaggerated a little in the story he recalls.
@@babixillo Younger generations cannot believe what people could do back then, as the game was not as organized as it is today, but on individual level some of them are unsurpassed even today. A good example of this from another sport is Wilt Chamberlain - many young people today do not believe it was possible. Basically goes from reality to legend into myth, all in the space of 50 years. ruclips.net/video/PN0Q3KcKA_Ej/видео.html
Ahah that's the first time I've seen a comment like that. Great tho I'm glad you enjoyed if you wanna learn some more there's lots of other videos in the channel like this
As a young boy I remember hearing about Puskas when he played for Real Madrid. 4 years ago I went past the Puskas stadium in Budapest where my son lives. I hope to go see a match there one day before I leave this earth and pay homage to this great footballer.
Puskas wasn't injured "himself" in 1954 world cup, he was injured on purpose by the germans... and then in the final the hungarian team was SCAMMED in one of the most appalling final games ever, with Puskas hurt, legit goals cancelled and rumours of the germans being drugged
These were not rumors, this was stated by the German Olympic Committee: methamphetamines. And not to mention the completely unfair system that put Hungary in the same half of the board as all other favorites (Brazil, Uruguay...) while Germany had a really easy path to the final. Along all the World Cups whose result was questionable (1934, 1978, etc.), this one is probably the most obvious steal!
MARADONA brought a mid-table Napoli to their first 2 league titles (AND a UEFA Cup, AND an average Argentina to two World Cup finals, winning in 86). DI STEFANO inspired Real Madrid to their first league title in 21 years, and established them as the dominant force in Spain and Europe. CRUYFF went to Feyenoord and won their first league title in a decade, to get revenge from the DOMINANT Ajax who ditched him, at the age of 36. RONALDO returned from his career threatening knee injury, brought Brazil to a second consecutive WC final and won this time, in 2002. -and PUSKAS returned after a 2 year ban during his PRIME age, then went right back to the top of world football at Real Madrid, 242 goals / 222 games. These were such badass and miraculous achievements that I haven't seen replicated by anyone else. Maybe Laudrup's switch from Barca to Real (5-0 / 0-5), winning his fitfh consecutive league title as Real won against Barca, comes close to Cruyff's feat at Feyenoord.
- Pele is the only player with 3 World Cups. - Messi won 6 Ballon D'Ors, scored 91 goals in a calender year (2012), had the best season of all time with 73 goals and 34 assists (2011/12), Argentina's all-time leading goalscorer, Barcelona's all-time leading goalscorer, one of the few players with more than 730 career goals. - Cristiano Ronaldo won 5 Ballon D'Ors, 5 Champions Leagues, second topscorer internationally, first European international with 100 goals, all time topscorer in the Champions League, won Portugal's first EURO trophy in 2016, Real Madrid's all-time leading goalscorer, Portugal's all-time leading goalscorer, all-time leading goalscorer with 768 goals and counting.
Andrea Pirlo was ditched by AC Milan because his advancing age, then signed for a Juventus team that finished 7th in the league in the last two seasons and won the title without losing a single game. He then won 3 more consecutive league titles with the team and helped the team to get back to the european elite by reaching the CL finalin 2015 after last playing that game in 2002 and falling back to the 2nd league in the meantime.
I am from Hungary. Thanks for the video mate i really really liked it. Saved it to my favourites. I got emotional during watching.... HE IS our national hero. When i was young and playing football on the pitch with my friends as soon as any of us scored a goal we were shouting PUSKAS PUSKAS! He was our idol and father. We wanted to play like him. We will never forget you LEGEND! REST IN PEACE ❤️
I also grew up in Hungary during the Puskas era. We played football from sunrise to sunset,everybody wanted to be Puskas except me, my idol was Sandor Kocsis even tho I knew that Ocsi was a better player. Maybe I chose Kocka bc I was a Fradi suporter. Puskas Kocsis duo was the best the world has ever seen. RIP Ocsi Bacsi.
definitely a top 10 player ever. 7 goals in 2 EC final... more than 500 goals (without Messi and CR 100 goals more than anybody). 83 goals for Hungary. restarted his carreer at the age of 31. football was different, but still one of the greatest geniuses of the game. his shooting was ridiculous
Undoubtedly he was one of the greats of world football but is probably not remembered as well as he should be by the generation that grew up watching Maradona. Puskás's left foot was a wonder and Maradona reminds me of him in that aspect together with his short stature and acute football brain. He was greatly admired by English football fans in his day, including my father. As a child I admired Puskás so much that when playing football I practised religiously with my left foot, although a natural right footer, to the extent that I became more skilful with my left than my right.
@@andrearalf1021 Hungary had a golden generation that time, and we were even close to winning the world cup. The only disadvantage for him, that he went to Madrid a bit older aged. He would have got even more unrealistic numbers if he was there since young age.
@@andrearalf1021 Jo ezt hallani! :)Mindig is ugy hallottam hogy a politika kozbeszolt, es az orszag erdekeben vesztettuk el azt a dontot a haboruk utan. Kar erte, nem tudom mikor kerulunk legkozelebb ilyen kozel.
As a taxi driver in Perth W.A. I picked up George Best it was a long ride, we talked a lot. I asked him -in your opinion who was the best player ever. He answered, "for me Puskas" ( He didn't know I was a Hungarian)
Trophy cabinet - "... no EUROs..." Have you checked why is that? UEFA European Championship has been held every four years since 1960. When Puskás was already 33, fled out of Hungary and haven't got his spanish nationality yet. Hard to win a trophy if A) it doesn't exist or B) you cannot play at it.
There was a third goal by the Hungarian squad in the '54 final against Germany, which was wrongly invalidated as an offside. Well, lots of people claimed after the game (as well as some camera footage shows) it was not.
Great video, thanks! Being born in 1950, I still remember the great Puskas and Real Madrid's run of 5 trophies at the onset of European Football Tournaments. Sadly enough, they don't make 'm like that anymore!
@Toasted' Nugget_' It was one of the best teams ever. The best players were forced to play in Kispest, and the Hungarian national team is also one of the best teams ever. Not many teams had such dominance. They easily beat Botafogo and such teams with 5-0. They were like Santos a few years later. Kocsis, Bozsik, Puskas, Czibor etc. all played in the team.
This guy is arguably the greatest player ever. Honved, hungary and rm were all the best teams in the world when he played for them: that's not a coincidence
Great video mate: appreciating the historical context of Puskás’ career which is often overlooked. Players of that era possessed amazing bravery and strong mentality. Arguably Europe’s greatest ever inside forward ever, if he’d won the World Cup in ‘54 his legacy may have been regarded even higher. I believe his ‘positioning’ should be at least a 9. His natural instincts in the box or intelligent movement from deep were worldclass. Rest of his stats look pretty accurate. His finishing was GOAT-level. A great teammate too, passing and assisting Kocsis and Hidegkuti.
"Throphy cabinet: only 1 win in europe's top 5 league" - if you look up the european matches before the 1956 hungarian revolution the hungarian league was definitely one of europe's top 5. Sadly UCL wasn't invented until 1955, also the Euro was introduced in 1960 when he was already fleed from Hungary, but the WC, yeah that was a big miss. Overall great vid, keep it up man!
This is an incredible video. I have no idea how you manage to find such incredible clips as well as dig up so much fantastic information about the players. As a Madridista I feel very enlightened learning about one of our classic iconic players. I hope you are able to find a way to make your work sustainable! Maybe a commercial sponsorship or something, anything, that enables you to keep making these brilliant videos and getting the exposure you deserve along with a way to freely dedicate all your time to it. Keep going, and all the best!
Thanks so much man, honestly it was hard to find information about him but it was so worth it, what a player, what a man, the world deserves to know more about him. Btw if you wanna support the channel consider subscribing, i got lots of videos like this, a 1 hour long one on Cristiano Ronaldo and in two weeks I got Seedorf comming out, you might enjoy it
90% of the clips I digitized for Bentex TV. If you asked I would give you a special edition Puskás Boxset (8hours of Puskás footage). With the original compilation in DVD quality.
As a Hungarian I have a tale about puskas.once(after his retirment)he went to coach a football club full of kids.all the kids were laughing at him,because of his physicality and were asking,who is this person?I bet he can't hit the crossbar from the halfway line!so puskas walked to the halfway line with ten balls,and hit the crossbar every single time.the kids asked who is this person? And the coach replied, "he's señor puskas to you..."
When he was already a hungarian national player,he gave his footballshoes to my father after a training game,just because my father played well against him🤙..he was a world class player up there with pelé,maradona,cruyff etc....
Yes, usually the legends are born after their activity. He's an absolute legend. Today one of the best awards a footballer can get is the Puskas award...
Thank yo u so much for this amazing video, Todays football is being taught based on Arany csapat golden team method as the world know it today, even barcelona call it tiki taka
Puskas is an All Time Great, in Opinion one of the 5 best Players ever in the Game. Great Person, Great Captain, Great Player and Assist-Giver. Magnificent Player of the Magical Magyars.
you have the best football documentaries I've ever seen. subscribing and upvoting all your clips. keep up the good work. p.s. do Hagi at some point too!
Truth being from NZ a rugby country I played for a coach who named his son after him,who actually went on to play pro. Unfortunately the Aussie era of Viduka, Kewell, Swartz er,and others doesn't look like being bettered anytime soon. Good for the Hungarian guys.
Im Hungarian so i can make a comment or even 2. For Hungarians and for Hungary PUSKAS will always be a 10/10 for everything Football stands for, Nobody compares to him. When Hungary lost that very talked game of 1954 to Germany Puskas went to the German Capitain and congratulated him!! Despite knowing very well that Hungary was the favourite to win the World Cup in 1954, Puskas still received the Golden Boot for the best player of the Games, The Hungarian Football Team of the early 1950s been the best team Hungary ever had!! It was called AZ ARANY CSAPAT The Golden Team.
Puskas would have been the best player but sadly that German butcher on purpose injured him. Because he couldn't play against Brazil & Uruguay Somebody had to step up and it was Sandor Kocsis scoring 2 goals against each of those two powerhouses. 11 goals for the tournament, so I would say Kocsis was the GOAT of '54.
@@alextakacs768 He wasn't fit but I can understand he wanted to play. Most of us would.Would they have won without him? We'll never know,one thing for certain with a 100% fit Puskas we would have won easy.
@@habsallways What i don't get why in Hungary nobody mentioned Puskas and the Arnycsapat in early 1970s and i first heard about Puskas and Kocsis in 1975 Italy!! We lived there and almost every Italian over 30 knew who Puskas was!! And me as a new Hungarian boy had to pretend i knew both Puskas and Kocsis and the Italians informed me about the Golden Team of Ferenc Puskas!! I was really embarrassed!!
@@alextakacs768 The answer to your question is very sad. After the Hungarian revolution was put down by the Soviet Union Puskas,Kocsis and Czibor decided not to return. The communist government of Hungary considered them as traitors (haza arulok). No media were ever allowed to mention their name.Of course most ppl knew the truth,parents told their children. Thankfully today in Hungary and around the world real football fans know who the aranycsapat was and what they did.
They wouldn't "buy" all the greatest footballers. They would conscript them into military because Honved was a Red Army of Hungary. This was practice at that time, in many East European countries. To get a player, they would tell the player via ministry of defence, he can go to real military service or join the army team.
Did you play for Hellas? I played for Hungaria Melbourne but left for Canada in 1966. Should have waited, if I only knew that Puskas was heading to Melbourne. Coached by Puskas must have been the highlight of your life. I envy you😀
After wearing Korea with 9 more goals, Hugary beat Germany 8-3. You said that Puskas injured himself, NOT, He was injured by the opponent ! Ps: All Germany players were on Metamphetamine that day in the Final, they lost 8-3 earlier. Even the germans sadly admit it is True, their hole Team was doped!
Not to complain too much, cause its a great video, but pronouncing the names a little bit better would make a difference. Again, hope this criticism isnt taken badly :) top stuff as usual ! ;)
He wasn't one of the names you hear among Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Gullit etc because ... He was one you hear about from your grandparents. It's after he was introduced in Fifa 21 you hear his name from younger people.
He should have 5*Skill Moves cuz he invented the V Turn. Also actually with 3 star Weak foot he got a pretty good stat. His Weak Foot wasn’t really the best You can talk about 2 even maybe about 1. so his Weakfoot is pretty good rated kn Fifa
His the most underrated player ever. I would definitely put him on the same level as Maradona and Pele. I mean look how he played football in the 1950's.
Most people don’t know he was actually german. His birth name was Franz Purzceld. Nandor Hidegkuti (Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner) and Sandor Kocsis (Sandro Wagner) were actually germans too.
@@zalan9989 I am Banatgerman (family from romania and Voijvodina) by myself and I am german. No difference. You idolize them and you like them right so why you deny them? Why the need to take away from them what they were and being disrespectful against their identity and their families? I speak german yes but you don’t it’s difficult to understand what you mean.
@@cmenomore8119 Purczeld Ferenc had swabian ancestors , but Hidegkutis real name was Dvoracsek not Kaltenbrunner , moreover Kocsis Sándor was not german. Stop spreading BS.
@@Necks01 Bro the only one here spreading BS are you i just telling the truth. I understand very well (especially when I take a look at my own current national team) that for Hungarians it’s not that kind of cool feeling to find out that their biggest legends in football weren’t one of their own just some germans in a hungarian jersey but only because it hurts your feelings doesn’t make it less true. But i would never claim Mesut Özil being german. Puskas hadn’t only swabian ancestors he was swabian himself even your people called him the "Svab". Hidegkuti's real name was Kaltenbrunner it’s even just the simple translation to his original name. Hedig = Kalt Kut = Brunnen Use your brain... site 5 column 7 on the right side. www.ungarndeutsche.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Madjarisierung-fremder-Familiennamen.pdf Sandor Koscic real name was Sandro Wagner his fathers name was Alexander "Schandi" Wagner. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldene_Elf#Mannschaft "Drei der Auswahlspieler waren donauschwäbischer Herkunft, deren Nachnamen magyarisiert wurden: Sandro Wagner als Sándor Kocsis, Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner als Nándor Hidegkuti und Franz Purzeld als Ferenc Puskás." Translation: "Three of the selected players were of Danube Swabian origin, whose surnames were Magyarized: Sandro Wagner as Sándor Kocsis, Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner as Nándor Hidegkuti and Franz Purzeld as Ferenc Puskás." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sándor_Kocsis#Jugend "Kocsis entstammt einer deutschen Familie, deren Name von Wagner in Kocsis magyarisiert wurde." Translation: "Kocsis family was of german origin whose name was Magyarized from Wagner to Kocsis." de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nándor_Hidegkuti#Werdegang "Hidegkuti entstammte einer deutschen Familie, deren Name magyarisiert wurde. Sein Vater hieß mit Nachnamen noch Kaltenbrunner (ungarisch hideg ‚kalt‘ und ungarisch kút ‚Brunnen‘)." Translation: "Hidegkutis family was of german origin whose name was Magyarized. His father's last name was still Kaltenbrunner (Hungarian hideg 'cold' and Hungarian kút 'fountain')."
CURIOSITY In that WC Puskás scored a correct; regular other goal in the 85.minute but the referree was unfair and did not premitted the goal If the referree premitted it we(Hungary) win the WC in the extension because Hungarian players stamina was the best in the world! In the group matches we defeated Germany(Hungary 8:3 Germany) So the germans paid for the referree to win the match this is really unfair!
There are some inaccuracies... communist dictatorship, yes, but it seems like the rest of the world was 'free': Brazil was a military dictatorship when Pele was winning the world cups and Argentina was in the hand of the military in 1978: just when Argentina was winning with Holland, dissidents of the regime were tortured to death. All coups sponsored by the CIA. And Hungary in 1956 was not in a 'war', it was an uprising, them crushed by Soviet tanks.
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Puskás was the modern striker...but 60 years ago!
Years ahead of his time, a prolific goal machine, a gentleman and a true Legend of the beautiful game.
Pele was far better goal scorer but problem was with him was he wasnt european and white
@@mightytitan1719 wth??
@@mightytitan1719 mf you acting as if people don’t recognize Pelé as the goat, of course Pelé was better, nobody denies that, but puskas is underrated and is indeed his second, in fact people don’t mention him as much as Pelé, so wtf are you on about?
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Man GTFOH you muppet.
@@mightytitan1719 wdym bro pele is whey better known then puskas also this video isn’t about pele we are appreciating puskas
dont forget that he didnt play for 2 hole seasons and still managed those numbers, what an absolute legend
Only Ronaldo better in terms of National team scores and yet he didn’t play 11 years in the Hungarian team 🤯
@@thebudtrender well, stats are stats but modern football its more defensive and defenses and gk actually know what they are doing, so its kind of harder to get these kind of numbers, you can even compare numbers with current scorers and you ll notice such gap between messi and ronaldo agaisnt the rest because they are that insane i think its around 0.8 goals per match
let me give you one example pele claims to have scored over 1000 games but FIFA knows better, because some militar games played by pele werent taking in account due to the fact they werent fair play, some games pele even scored over 15 goals agaisnt amateurs, all my respect but it would make no sense taking those games into account, whats next taking goals you do in practice into account? it would put pele with over 1.2 goals per match
@@amarodsv your second paragraph is way out of context. Unlike Pelé Puskas at least scored those goals in official matches and these were for the national team not for the club where Pelé claimed to have scored over 1200 goals. Puskas scored 84 in 85 for his national team do you know how insane that is. Imagine if he had played in those 11 seasons id reckon he’d have over 200 goals. But this is all speculation but stats would back him up. And it’s true that defense is tougher nowadays but what Cr7 and Messi are for us today was Puskas back in the day. A player exceeding all expectations and playing way before his time.
@@kevin8006 maybe you misunderstood me, i didnt mean nothing to puskas but to the sheer extent of bs that pele did in his instagram the day ronaldo surpassed him in goals in officials matchs, the only real difference here between ronaldo/messi and any other legend its the absurd amount of years they been doing it
@@amarodsv well true but puskas was 70 years ahead of his time
as a hungarian it’s so nice to see people are starting to recognise our players
Only puskas*
We madridistas who know him, love him!
Dude any football fan knows Puskas and the incredible Hungary team of the 50s.
Real football legend!
many hungarians played for barcelona too during the 50s/60s
Ferenc Puskas, Ferenc Deak, Imre Schlosser, Gyula Zsengeller, Sandor Kocsis, Kubala etc.....
“I was with Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and Puskas, coaching in a football academy in Australia,” George Best once recalled. “The youngsters we were coaching did not respect Puskas, making fun of his weight and age, so he decided to try and hit the crossbar ten times in a row with a shot.
“Law asked the kids how many they thought Puskas would get out of ten. Most said less than five. Best said ten. Puskas stepped up and hit nine in a row. For the tenth shot he scooped the ball in the air, bounced it off both shoulders and his head, and then flicked it over with his heel and cannoned the ball off the crossbar on the volley. They all stood in silence and then one kid asked who he was. I replied, ‘To you, his name is Mr. Puskas.'”
(please read about his coaching career too)
That's a crazy story but to be honest it's hard to believe
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT It must be true. He could hit the crosssbar at least 9 times from 10 attempts (some other players were also good at it). He was a magician at shooting. Coaching in Greece once he just shot the ball 2 times in a row into a basketball ring without touching the ring. He could handle a soap with his feet in the shower. People didn't believe what he could do.
Wow he is taht good
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT people often exaggerate a story when they try to remember something that left them a big impression, and to leave a big impression on someone like george best it must be something out of this world even if it's exaggerated a little in the story he recalls.
@@babixillo Younger generations cannot believe what people could do back then, as the game was not as organized as it is today, but on individual level some of them are unsurpassed even today. A good example of this from another sport is Wilt Chamberlain - many young people today do not believe it was possible. Basically goes from reality to legend into myth, all in the space of 50 years.
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Just packed him in fifa 21 so it's nice to watch this video and learn about his career.
Ahah that's the first time I've seen a comment like that. Great tho I'm glad you enjoyed if you wanna learn some more there's lots of other videos in the channel like this
Lucky
Same here
That's a dub
Lucky you
As a young boy I remember hearing about Puskas when he played for Real Madrid. 4 years ago I went past the Puskas stadium in Budapest where my son lives. I hope to go see a match there one day before I leave this earth and pay homage to this great footballer.
Puskas wasn't injured "himself" in 1954 world cup, he was injured on purpose by the germans... and then in the final the hungarian team was SCAMMED in one of the most appalling final games ever, with Puskas hurt, legit goals cancelled and rumours of the germans being drugged
Blah blah blah. Excuses excuses
These were not rumors, this was stated by the German Olympic Committee: methamphetamines.
And not to mention the completely unfair system that put Hungary in the same half of the board as all other favorites (Brazil, Uruguay...) while Germany had a really easy path to the final.
Along all the World Cups whose result was questionable (1934, 1978, etc.), this one is probably the most obvious steal!
i’m watching the video rn
he would've destroyed that German team
B..b.but penaldo is the greatest goal scorer🤡🤡
MARADONA brought a mid-table Napoli to their first 2 league titles (AND a UEFA Cup, AND an average Argentina to two World Cup finals, winning in 86).
DI STEFANO inspired Real Madrid to their first league title in 21 years, and established them as the dominant force in Spain and Europe.
CRUYFF went to Feyenoord and won their first league title in a decade, to get revenge from the DOMINANT Ajax who ditched him, at the age of 36.
RONALDO returned from his career threatening knee injury, brought Brazil to a second consecutive WC final and won this time, in 2002.
-and PUSKAS returned after a 2 year ban during his PRIME age, then went right back to the top of world football at Real Madrid, 242 goals / 222 games.
These were such badass and miraculous achievements that I haven't seen replicated by anyone else.
Maybe Laudrup's switch from Barca to Real (5-0 / 0-5), winning his fitfh consecutive league title as Real won against Barca, comes close to Cruyff's feat at Feyenoord.
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- Pele is the only player with 3 World Cups.
- Messi won 6 Ballon D'Ors, scored 91 goals in a calender year (2012), had the best season of all time with 73 goals and 34 assists (2011/12), Argentina's all-time leading goalscorer, Barcelona's all-time leading goalscorer, one of the few players with more than 730 career goals.
- Cristiano Ronaldo won 5 Ballon D'Ors, 5 Champions Leagues, second topscorer internationally, first European international with 100 goals, all time topscorer in the Champions League, won Portugal's first EURO trophy in 2016, Real Madrid's all-time leading goalscorer, Portugal's all-time leading goalscorer, all-time leading goalscorer with 768 goals and counting.
Andrea Pirlo was ditched by AC Milan because his advancing age, then signed for a Juventus team that finished 7th in the league in the last two seasons and won the title without losing a single game. He then won 3 more consecutive league titles with the team and helped the team to get back to the european elite by reaching the CL finalin 2015 after last playing that game in 2002 and falling back to the 2nd league in the meantime.
Van basten completing cruijff job by winning Netherlands an euro cup
AWESOME VIDEO MAN! As a Spaniard I still have to admit he is the greatest (in EVERY sense of the word) footballer of ALL TIME
Simply the best ! Hajra Puskas! Hajra Magyarok !
Csak a Kispest!
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Ria Ria Hungaria!
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Csapat csak egy van Ferencvaros😀
I am from Hungary. Thanks for the video mate i really really liked it. Saved it to my favourites. I got emotional during watching.... HE IS our national hero. When i was young and playing football on the pitch with my friends as soon as any of us scored a goal we were shouting PUSKAS PUSKAS! He was our idol and father. We wanted to play like him. We will never forget you LEGEND! REST IN PEACE ❤️
I also grew up in Hungary during the Puskas era. We played football from sunrise to sunset,everybody wanted to be Puskas except me, my idol was Sandor Kocsis even tho I knew that Ocsi was a better player. Maybe I chose Kocka bc I was a Fradi suporter. Puskas Kocsis duo was the best the world has ever seen. RIP Ocsi Bacsi.
@@habsallwayshow old are you
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definitely a top 10 player ever. 7 goals in 2 EC final... more than 500 goals (without Messi and CR 100 goals more than anybody). 83 goals for Hungary. restarted his carreer at the age of 31. football was different, but still one of the greatest geniuses of the game. his shooting was ridiculous
somebody give this man the respect HE DESERVES! Thanks for making this video. just learning about him now
Puskas just invented V-turn and he can't do it in FIFA 21
Whats v turn
@@adamheath3708 V-turn is a skill move in football, check his goal against England and you will see.
A v-turn konkrétan a drag back csak nem hátra húzod, hanem előre
This is oroginal Puskas skill 🤗🇭🇺
Komolyan Puskásnak meg kéne adni a 5*Skills Moves
How good is to hear this as a Hungarian.. 🖤
Facts I’m Hungarian aswell
Undoubtedly he was one of the greats of world football but is probably not remembered as well as he should be by the generation that grew up watching Maradona. Puskás's left foot was a wonder and Maradona reminds me of him in that aspect together with his short stature and acute football brain. He was greatly admired by English football fans in his day, including my father. As a child I admired Puskás so much that when playing football I practised religiously with my left foot, although a natural right footer, to the extent that I became more skilful with my left than my right.
wow thats what i call perseverance
Pele said if puskas was born somewhere else he would have been a bigger star Than himself
@@andrearalf1021 Hungary had a golden generation that time, and we were even close to winning the world cup. The only disadvantage for him, that he went to Madrid a bit older aged. He would have got even more unrealistic numbers if he was there since young age.
@@mhnr23 enis magyar vagyok ! Vagom mit mondasz de bárki barmit mondd az a VB a milyenk volt
@@andrearalf1021 Jo ezt hallani! :)Mindig is ugy hallottam hogy a politika kozbeszolt, es az orszag erdekeben vesztettuk el azt a dontot a haboruk utan. Kar erte, nem tudom mikor kerulunk legkozelebb ilyen kozel.
As a taxi driver in Perth W.A. I picked up George Best it was a long ride, we talked a lot. I asked him -in your opinion who was the best player ever. He answered, "for me Puskas" ( He didn't know I was a Hungarian)
The GREATEST of the greats..Respects to the Legend.
May he never be forgotten a true legend of the game Rest In Peace
Trophy cabinet - "... no EUROs..."
Have you checked why is that?
UEFA European Championship has been held every four years since 1960. When Puskás was already 33, fled out of Hungary and haven't got his spanish nationality yet. Hard to win a trophy if A) it doesn't exist or B) you cannot play at it.
There was a third goal by the Hungarian squad in the '54 final against Germany, which was wrongly invalidated as an offside. Well, lots of people claimed after the game (as well as some camera footage shows) it was not.
If only there was VAR!!!
Great video, thanks!
Being born in 1950, I still remember the great Puskas and Real Madrid's run of 5 trophies at the onset of European Football Tournaments. Sadly enough, they don't make 'm like that anymore!
His time at the Budapest Honvéd is very underrated.
Honvéd was in that time the best team of the world.
@Toasted' Nugget_' It was one of the best teams ever. The best players were forced to play in Kispest, and the Hungarian national team is also one of the best teams ever. Not many teams had such dominance. They easily beat Botafogo and such teams with 5-0. They were like Santos a few years later. Kocsis, Bozsik, Puskas, Czibor etc. all played in the team.
@@toastednugget_3124
Yes way.
This guy is arguably the greatest player ever. Honved, hungary and rm were all the best teams in the world when he played for them: that's not a coincidence
Thank you this amazing video! ❤ Love from Hungary!
Great video mate: appreciating the historical context of Puskás’ career which is often overlooked. Players of that era possessed amazing bravery and strong mentality. Arguably Europe’s greatest ever inside forward ever, if he’d won the World Cup in ‘54 his legacy may have been regarded even higher. I believe his ‘positioning’ should be at least a 9. His natural instincts in the box or intelligent movement from deep were worldclass. Rest of his stats look pretty accurate. His finishing was GOAT-level. A great teammate too, passing and assisting Kocsis and Hidegkuti.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it. This one took me some extra time to get done
It feels so bad that we had players like him and probably the scariest national team back in the day and now our football is just so disappointing
"Throphy cabinet: only 1 win in europe's top 5 league" - if you look up the european matches before the 1956 hungarian revolution the hungarian league was definitely one of europe's top 5.
Sadly UCL wasn't invented until 1955, also the Euro was introduced in 1960 when he was already fleed from Hungary, but the WC, yeah that was a big miss.
Overall great vid, keep it up man!
This is an incredible video. I have no idea how you manage to find such incredible clips as well as dig up so much fantastic information about the players. As a Madridista I feel very enlightened learning about one of our classic iconic players. I hope you are able to find a way to make your work sustainable! Maybe a commercial sponsorship or something, anything, that enables you to keep making these brilliant videos and getting the exposure you deserve along with a way to freely dedicate all your time to it.
Keep going, and all the best!
Thanks so much man, honestly it was hard to find information about him but it was so worth it, what a player, what a man, the world deserves to know more about him.
Btw if you wanna support the channel consider subscribing, i got lots of videos like this, a 1 hour long one on Cristiano Ronaldo and in two weeks I got Seedorf comming out, you might enjoy it
Daily Dose Of Football brilliant who are you doing next week
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT your ronaldo video is how i found your channel, from when you posted it in r/realmadrid. have been subbed since then!
@@KaustubhVarshneyPnpl owh okay, thanks so much
90% of the clips I digitized for Bentex TV. If you asked I would give you a special edition Puskás Boxset (8hours of Puskás footage). With the original compilation in DVD quality.
Nicely put together biography,on my favourite player...I saw him play when I was 10 !...
As a Hungarian I have a tale about puskas.once(after his retirment)he went to coach a football club full of kids.all the kids were laughing at him,because of his physicality and were asking,who is this person?I bet he can't hit the crossbar from the halfway line!so puskas walked to the halfway line with ten balls,and hit the crossbar every single time.the kids asked who is this person?
And the coach replied,
"he's señor puskas to you..."
Never heard the story but glad it’s in my recommended page
When he was already a hungarian national player,he gave his footballshoes to my father after a training game,just because my father played well against him🤙..he was a world class player up there with pelé,maradona,cruyff etc....
They named an award after him.
That's how good he was.
Yes, usually the legends are born after their activity. He's an absolute legend. Today one of the best awards a footballer can get is the Puskas award...
By the way how do you know he was not so popular in that time? In Real madrid etc... he was a star....
3:06 it’s about to be 100 years and this man’s broken ankles are still up for the world to see
This man brings honor to our country
Great video on this world class football player, he was before my time but thankfully there is a lot of footage on this incredible player.
GOAT Striker in my opinion.
A superb video as always, thank you!
Ofc, hope you enjoy them every week
Wow what a great video dude! Love this, thank you 🙏🏼❤️
I thought you had hundreds of thousands of subs, wow. Your videos are so brilliantly made and so professional, keep it up my man
Thanks, one day maybe
@@DailyDoseOfFootballYT Certainly deserved, have faith and keep at it man
Thank yo u so much for this amazing video, Todays football is being taught based on Arany csapat
golden team method as the world know it today, even barcelona call it tiki taka
Love it! This channel should hit a 1000 subs soon, these videos are quality!
It's taken a dive recently, doing really poorly but still should hit 1000 soon
I remember him. One of the greatest ever. I’m 70 btw.
Good work. Thanks for your trouble.
Need this guy in icon swaps 2 😭
You know EA won’t give him us for free like that :(
Bruh he is so underrated in fifa. He inverted a trick that he can't do bc of his 4* skill moves
@@sese648 ...
@@johnnyjoestar5193 LOL damn I stand corrected
Puskas is an All Time Great, in Opinion one of the 5 best Players ever in the Game. Great Person, Great Captain, Great Player and Assist-Giver. Magnificent Player of the Magical Magyars.
you have the best football documentaries I've ever seen. subscribing and upvoting all your clips. keep up the good work. p.s. do Hagi at some point too!
One of the best ever, top 5 easily
Truth being from NZ a rugby country I played for a coach who named his son after him,who actually went on to play pro. Unfortunately the Aussie era of Viduka, Kewell, Swartz er,and others doesn't look like being bettered anytime soon. Good for the Hungarian guys.
Im Hungarian so i can make a comment or even 2. For Hungarians and for Hungary PUSKAS will always be a 10/10 for everything Football stands for, Nobody compares to him. When Hungary lost that very talked game of 1954 to Germany Puskas went to the German Capitain and congratulated him!! Despite knowing very well that Hungary was the favourite to win the World Cup in 1954, Puskas still received the Golden Boot for the best player of the Games, The Hungarian Football Team of the early 1950s been the best team Hungary ever had!! It was called AZ ARANY CSAPAT The Golden Team.
Puskas would have been the best player but sadly that German butcher on purpose injured him. Because he couldn't play against Brazil & Uruguay Somebody had to step up and it was Sandor Kocsis scoring 2 goals against each of those two powerhouses. 11 goals for the tournament, so I would say Kocsis was the GOAT of '54.
@@habsallways So that means Hungary without Puskas would have win the Cup?
@@alextakacs768 He wasn't fit but I can understand he wanted to play. Most of us would.Would they have won without him? We'll never know,one thing for certain with a 100% fit Puskas we would have won easy.
@@habsallways What i don't get why in Hungary nobody mentioned Puskas and the Arnycsapat in early 1970s and i first heard about Puskas and Kocsis in 1975 Italy!! We lived there and almost every Italian over 30 knew who Puskas was!! And me as a new Hungarian boy had to pretend i knew both Puskas and Kocsis and the Italians informed me about the Golden Team of Ferenc Puskas!! I was really embarrassed!!
@@alextakacs768 The answer to your question is very sad. After the Hungarian revolution was put down by the Soviet Union Puskas,Kocsis and Czibor decided not to return. The communist government of Hungary considered them as traitors (haza arulok). No media were ever allowed to mention their name.Of course most ppl
knew the truth,parents told their children.
Thankfully today in Hungary and around the world real football fans know who the aranycsapat was and what they did.
One of the more enriching things is learning about these legends.
Havent seen such an inspiring video. Very clear job u deserve my subscription.
Thank you for making these videos.
RIA RIA HUNGÁRIA 🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺🇭🇺⚽️ R.I.P Puskás Ferenc 😔
Thanks for this video 🇭🇺🇭🇺
They wouldn't "buy" all the greatest footballers. They would conscript them into military because Honved was a Red Army of Hungary. This was practice at that time, in many East European countries. To get a player, they would tell the player via ministry of defence, he can go to real military service or join the army team.
yeah, i knew that, was just poor wording i guess
Öcsi bácsi, nyugodj bèkèben!
Te voltál ès maradsz a legnagyobb!
🇭🇺
Another great video! Now to go through your entire catalogue...
Some of these dribbles and volleys, wow. He looks like a contemporary footballer.
Thanks man, glad you like them. Puskas was ahead of his time
Absolute Legend of a man
nice, the first goat rankings video to have the modern speech
Nekünk Puskás Öcsi a Legnagyobb Magyar focista👍👍
What a video 10/10 would recommend
Thank you.
Ferenc was my mentor and coach in Australia (1990-92).
He is a gentleman and marvellous, intelligent champion.
Did you play for Hellas? I played for Hungaria Melbourne but left for Canada in 1966. Should have waited, if I only knew that Puskas was heading to Melbourne.
Coached by Puskas must have been the highlight of your life. I envy you😀
@@habsallways I played at Sth. Melbourne 1989-1993. Great years, champion team and phenomenal fans. Blessings brate!
@@MMLilikickass When I played early 60s
Your team was called St.Melbourne Hellas.
Fantastic players always enjoyed playing against them.
Cheers
Fadil vokkri is a legend he should be an icon on fifa
Legend!
Great video mate
Love This!! My Hungarian father in law loved it too!!
awesome!
After wearing Korea with 9 more goals, Hugary beat Germany 8-3. You said that Puskas injured himself, NOT, He was injured by the opponent !
Ps: All Germany players were on Metamphetamine that day in the Final, they lost 8-3 earlier. Even the germans sadly admit it is True, their hole Team was doped!
Akkortájt minden csapatnak nyomatták a methet. A mieinknek sajnos pont elfogyott, ezért kaptak ki...
@@viktorpal1466 Az agyad fogyott ki!!
Great video keep it up 👍👍
Good vid, keep up the good work 👍
The best
this was well done i didnt know who he was when i saw him in fifa.
He is so underrated 😢😢😢
He's born in the same year as my grandfather :D
puskas is the real goat
Great vid
Puskás=Leyenda del Real Madrid
what a legend 💯💯🙏🏿
He deserved that world cup
Not to complain too much, cause its a great video, but pronouncing the names a little bit better would make a difference. Again, hope this criticism isnt taken badly :) top stuff as usual ! ;)
Out of betting, he kicked the ball into the top bar ten times from the sixteen line.The biography is told about it in a movie.
He wasn't one of the names you hear among Pele, Maradona, Cruyff, Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Gullit etc because ... He was one you hear about from your grandparents.
It's after he was introduced in Fifa 21 you hear his name from younger people.
i packed him in fifa 21 and learned about his history and its so fascinating and i really want to pack him again in fifa 22... he is my favourite
Puskas and Eusebio are so underrated
Di Stefano, Puskas, Gento, Kopa y Rial
Amazing :) after i've seen this, he should be 4*4* on fifa
He should have 5*Skill Moves cuz he invented the V Turn. Also actually with 3 star Weak foot he got a pretty good stat. His Weak Foot wasn’t really the best You can talk about 2 even maybe about 1. so his Weakfoot is pretty good rated kn Fifa
I guess Hungarians just Raided this video lmao.. PANCHO
Bezony
Great video! Also kinda random but what is the background music?
Im REALLY proud because imi hungarian :D
He is actually taller than messi
I am finally proud to be born at April 1
Kispest Forever!
nice video
His the most underrated player ever. I would definitely put him on the same level as Maradona and Pele. I mean look how he played football in the 1950's.
Also josef bican
Most people don’t know he was actually german. His birth name was Franz Purzceld.
Nandor Hidegkuti (Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner)
and Sandor Kocsis (Sandro Wagner)
were actually germans too.
they were not..... Sie waren ungarische Schwaben, die früher kommt zu Ungarn. You speak german, right?
@@zalan9989
I am Banatgerman (family from romania and Voijvodina) by myself and I am german.
No difference.
You idolize them and you like them right so why you deny them?
Why the need to take away from them what they were and being disrespectful against their identity and their families?
I speak german yes but you don’t it’s difficult to understand what you mean.
@@cmenomore8119 Purczeld Ferenc had swabian ancestors , but Hidegkutis real name was Dvoracsek not Kaltenbrunner , moreover Kocsis Sándor was not german. Stop spreading BS.
@@zalan9989 Az arancsapatból csak Puskás és Lantos volt sváb(Puskása beceneve is Sváb volt) ,ezt sosem tagadta senki .
@@Necks01
Bro the only one here spreading BS are you i just telling the truth.
I understand very well (especially when I take a look at my own current national team) that for Hungarians it’s not that kind of cool feeling to find out that their biggest legends in football weren’t one of their own just some germans in a hungarian jersey but only because it hurts your feelings doesn’t make it less true.
But i would never claim Mesut Özil being german.
Puskas hadn’t only swabian ancestors he was swabian himself even your people called him the "Svab".
Hidegkuti's real name was Kaltenbrunner it’s even just the simple translation to his original name.
Hedig = Kalt Kut = Brunnen
Use your brain... site 5 column 7 on the right side.
www.ungarndeutsche.de/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Madjarisierung-fremder-Familiennamen.pdf
Sandor Koscic real name was Sandro Wagner his fathers name was Alexander "Schandi" Wagner.
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldene_Elf#Mannschaft
"Drei der Auswahlspieler waren donauschwäbischer Herkunft, deren Nachnamen magyarisiert wurden: Sandro Wagner als Sándor Kocsis, Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner als Nándor Hidegkuti und Franz Purzeld als Ferenc Puskás."
Translation:
"Three of the selected players were of Danube Swabian origin, whose surnames were Magyarized: Sandro Wagner as Sándor Kocsis, Ferdinand Kaltenbrunner as Nándor Hidegkuti and Franz Purzeld as Ferenc Puskás."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sándor_Kocsis#Jugend
"Kocsis entstammt einer deutschen Familie, deren Name von Wagner in Kocsis magyarisiert wurde."
Translation:
"Kocsis family was of german origin whose name was Magyarized from Wagner to Kocsis."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nándor_Hidegkuti#Werdegang
"Hidegkuti entstammte einer deutschen Familie, deren Name magyarisiert wurde. Sein Vater hieß mit Nachnamen noch Kaltenbrunner (ungarisch hideg ‚kalt‘ und ungarisch kút ‚Brunnen‘)."
Translation:
"Hidegkutis family was of german origin whose name was Magyarized.
His father's last name was still Kaltenbrunner (Hungarian hideg 'cold' and Hungarian kút 'fountain')."
Wing Hussars would be proud
Two more for your goat rankings. Gerd Muller and Jimmy Greaves.
When you realize he is the player with the most assists in the football history
Next video Recommendation-Video on tony Adams
Plzzzzzzzzz🙏🙏🙏
CURIOSITY
In that WC Puskás scored a correct; regular other goal in the 85.minute but the referree was unfair and did not premitted the goal
If the referree premitted it we(Hungary) win the WC in the extension because Hungarian players stamina was the best in the world! In the group matches we defeated Germany(Hungary 8:3 Germany)
So the germans paid for the referree to win the match this is really unfair!
There are some inaccuracies... communist dictatorship, yes, but it seems like the rest of the world was 'free': Brazil was a military dictatorship when Pele was winning the world cups and Argentina was in the hand of the military in 1978: just when Argentina was winning with Holland, dissidents of the regime were tortured to death. All coups sponsored by the CIA. And Hungary in 1956 was not in a 'war', it was an uprising, them crushed by Soviet tanks.
How tf does this guy have a 3 star weakfoot, EA are drunk
most of his goals on video are on his left foot so it is understandable