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During the 1950s Hungary's Magnificent Magyars drove footballing culture forward. Their failure to win the 1954 World Cup remains one of the sport's great missed opportunities.
During the 1950s Hungary's Magnificent Magyars drove footballing culture forward. Their failure to win the 1954 World Cup remains one of the sport's great missed opportunities.
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