The Mezey era: Looking at the positives

Gyorgy Mezey's stint as Videoton first team manager comes to an end on Sunday. His Videoton side will play the final match, away at Ujpest, in Budapest, bringing down the curtains on a successful era for the club. Several Vidi players have represented the Hungarian national side in the past. 2004 saw Zoltan Herczegvalvi, Balazs Toth and Attila Kriston all put on the national shirt. They were followed later by Illes Sitku and Akos Koller. More than 30 Videoton players have represented Hungary over the years. However, there has been a lengthy period recently were Vidi players found it hard to catch the attention of the national team manager. Illes Sitku's appearance on the 19th December 2005, against Antigua and Barbuda was the last one, before the arrival of Gyorgy Mezey to the Fehervar hot seat. Hungarian national team managers, Peter Bozsik, Peter Varhidi and Erwin Koeman all looked "elsewhere" when picking their squads, even though Vidi won the Hungarian cup in 2006! The ice was broken in the autumn of 2009, when Gabor Horvath became the first player under Mezey, to be named in the national squad. With the new Videoton squad taking shape, this resulted in Daniel Nagy, Zsolt Sebok and Balazs Farkas all being named in their national squad.