Hungary's Marco Rossi and Roland Sallai on Scotland win
23/06/2024
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Stuggart Arena, Germany
23/06/2024
UEFA24
Stuggart Arena, Germany
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00:00Hi, welcome to the Team Hungary post-match press conference with the head coach, Mr.
00:16Marco Rossi, and the player of the match, Roland Schalai.
00:24First congratulations for the victory and the trophy.
00:28Can you please ask the question first for the player, a few questions, and then you
00:32can ask the question for the coach.
00:35Please raise your hand and we can start.
00:58I am András Jegesi from ATV, when Kevin Csobot kicked the goal, what was your first thought?
01:27This is an indescribable thing, especially that we could win the match in the 100th minute.
01:36It was a fantastic feeling, not only for me, but for the whole team, the professional staff
01:44and everyone involved.
01:47We are very happy that this is how the match turned out, and we are hopeful that the other
01:54matches will turn out in a way that we like.
02:05Roland, congratulations.
02:07After the situation with Varga-Barnabas, it seemed like the Hungarian team lifted itself.
02:14Do you think it was connected in any way?
02:18Of course, it was a terrible thing.
02:23We fought for it in the last 15-20 minutes, and we wanted to win the match.
02:31We are very happy that we succeeded, and this success speaks for itself.
02:38Do you have a final question for the player?
02:40Yes, just here.
02:43Zalán Bodnar, National Sport.
02:46So far, the Hungarian players have been selected three times for the European Championships.
02:52Laszlo Klenheiser twice, and now it's your turn.
02:54Both of you came from the Puskás Academy.
02:56Does this mean anything to the Academy's training?
03:01I think it's good for the Academy to see that players like this are selected,
03:07and what prizes they can win at the European Championships.
03:13I hope that this wasn't our last match,
03:18and that in the next match, one of us will win the prize.
03:37It's Italian.
03:48Roli?
03:50It's not mine.
04:01Can we try?
04:02Yes, just try to ask your question, please.
04:04Yeah, sure.
04:05Mr Rossi, Raman Bardwaj from STV.
04:08It's not working.
04:10Okay, but in English it's okay.
04:12Great.
04:13I'd appreciate it if you could answer in English, if possible.
04:16Steve Clark said his team was denied a clear penalty.
04:21What was your view, and do you believe the better team won on the night?
04:28In the previous match, I said that there was a clear foul on Vili Orban,
04:32done by Gundogan,
04:33and nobody talked about why you have to talk now about this episode.
04:39I didn't see well from the bench,
04:43but if they didn't give the penalty, probably in the VAR room,
04:48they have seen that it was not a penalty.
04:51Also because in this European Championship, many pushes from back are allowed.
04:55Second question here.
04:56Sorry?
04:57I don't know the overall result.
05:01I don't understand.
05:02Sorry, yeah.
05:03Do you believe your team was better on the night, better than Scotland?
05:11To be honest, the Scottish had a bit more ball possession, especially.
05:19Especially.
05:20Especially in the first half.
05:21Then in the second half, it was more of an up-and-down match.
05:27Starting from the minute, we can say, 70,
05:34so it was almost 30 minutes in which there were situations from one side to the other.
05:41We can say that it was a bit more difficult.
05:48We can say that it was an equalised match,
05:51in which probably, surely, we had more chance.
05:56They had more ball possession.
05:59But in overall, I don't think that we didn't deserve the result.
06:05So I think that it was deserved.
06:10Marco, hello.
06:12Ewan Murray from The Guardian.
06:15Just on the Varga situation,
06:18could you please tell us in your words what happened?
06:21We know he is stable,
06:22but what exactly happened at that instant when the cross came in?
06:25What happened to him?
06:32I don't know if he suffered a crash with the goalkeeper or with an opponent
06:37because it was a confused situation.
06:40That's why also the VAR was checking if it could be a penalty or not.
06:45What I heard by the players is that Barney, in that moment, looked like not cautious.
06:52So everybody was really worried about his conditions
06:58and also worried about the fact that the doctors arrived a bit late,
07:10but of course, probably, they didn't realise that it was a dangerous situation.
07:16But fortunately now, we can say that Barney is not under any kind of risk.
07:23Probably, he will be operated on in the following hours
07:27because he suffered a fracture here, but he's healthy.
07:33So the most important thing is that he's healthy, of course.
07:37And for sure, if we will go through the competition,
07:41he will not be any more part of the team.
07:47Can I ask in Italian?
07:49Yes.
07:50Salve, mister.
07:51Antonio Moschella, First Core Italia.
07:54Can I answer in Italian?
07:56I think so.
07:59You had a very long career.
08:01Could it be that the last 30 minutes of this game,
08:04both because of Varga's situation and the result,
08:08were the most passionate moments of your career?
08:13Well, I think that if I think a little bit back,
08:21not so many years, but a few years back,
08:25I don't remember having ever had an easy win on the pitch.
08:30Never.
08:31Never.
08:33Speaking of important games, decisive games,
08:38for example, we qualified for the last minute in Bulgaria
08:43thanks to an own goal.
08:46Not that we didn't deserve the win,
08:49but in the meantime, until the 93rd, 94th, 97th,
08:53we were still 2-1.
08:55What?
08:57I mean, in my career, I've never had an easy win.
09:02Never.
09:03Now I'm here at my second European Cup,
09:06probably because of my age.
09:08I'm 59 years old.
09:10It's hard to dispute another one,
09:13but I'm very happy to have scored my first win,
09:17because until now I'd only won.
09:21Between two draws, one win and three defeats.
09:25It's not a big win,
09:27but given that the win came tonight,
09:30I'm very happy, I have to say, for myself,
09:34because only I know.
09:40Because maybe from the outside,
09:42you say, well, you're the English national team,
09:45you have a lot of pressure, the French national team,
09:47the Italian national team,
09:48but look, the Hungarian national team
09:50is no less in this respect.
09:52So, I live under enormous pressure,
09:57and honestly, I'd do without some things,
10:00but I'm very happy, I repeat, for myself,
10:04for my team-mates, for my staff,
10:06I'm very happy for those thousands of fans,
10:10many of whom went back and forth from Hungary
10:15three times in a row in the last week,
10:19and so I think that this win,
10:22achieved in this way, so hard,
10:26should be dedicated mainly to them,
10:29because these are real fans,
10:31not like those at the club.
10:33Thank you.
10:40Gergely Csózsa, Magyar Távirat HÃroda.
10:43I'd like to ask about Szoboszlai's condition,
10:46because it seems to me
10:48that he can't sprint on the balls,
10:51did I see that right?
10:53And if you could perhaps give a word to Csobot Kevint,
10:56who decided this game.
11:04Thank you.
11:10Dominic is not at his best condition,
11:14in the sense that he suffers from
11:17various muscle problems,
11:20for example, from the game he played against Germany,
11:23to this day he has never trained.
11:26He did recovery,
11:28he did a series of therapies
11:31that should have allowed him to go out on the pitch,
11:34but for us Szoboszlai is an irreplaceable player.
11:39So I made him play,
11:41I made him play until the end,
11:43to be honest I wanted to replace him,
11:45because he seemed very tired,
11:47ten minutes from the end,
11:49but he is always dangerous,
11:51at any moment he can find the play,
11:55this time he found the play in Csobot,
11:59he finally got in the way I wanted him to get in,
12:04he is a boy like all the others,
12:06an exceptional boy,
12:08but for example in the game against Germany,
12:10he got in,
12:12instead of looking for the depth,
12:15he always came against it,
12:17and someone who has his speed,
12:19for me it is mandatory to attack the depth,
12:22today he did it with good continuity,
12:26he took the ball first,
12:28he scored later,
12:30I think it had a big impact on the game,
12:35but as I always say,
12:37if we have a squad of 26 players,
12:40for one reason or another,
12:42you make the first 11 play,
12:44and then those who are on the bench,
12:46are needed to make the changes,
12:48and sometimes with the changes,
12:50you win the game.
12:56I would like to ask you in Italian this time,
13:03what kind of sum would you give,
13:07for the round of 16 for Hungary,
13:10after these three games?
13:12I would be very sorry to go home,
13:15without getting anything from this European Championship,
13:19now we can go home,
13:21but we have collected three points,
13:23which compared to the previous championship,
13:26add one more point,
13:31I think that in the end,
13:35I can, and you can,
13:37blame the players,
13:39just for having made a mistake in the first half with Switzerland,
13:43then in the second half,
13:45we came back and put Switzerland in the lead,
13:48third goal,
13:50I don't know if you remember,
13:52we did it on our own,
13:54and with the Germans,
13:56I repeat,
13:58the Germans,
14:00Germany,
14:02I said it in unexpected times,
14:04for me it is a favourite,
14:06but it comes in the end,
14:08it will come in the first four,
14:10I said it is a favourite,
14:12if you play against Germany,
14:14you are going to lose,
14:16but here,
14:18when someone said,
14:20that we were going to beat the Europeans,
14:22he really believed it,
14:24when you play against Germany,
14:26you are going to lose,
14:28I say that 2-0,
14:30even if they dominated,
14:32we played the game we had to play,
14:34and even there,
14:36we were unlucky in the episodes,
14:38if we want to talk about episodes,
14:40it is from when we started the preparation,
14:42that everything goes wrong,
14:44in terms of episodes,
14:46and nobody says it,
14:48this evening,
14:50the Dea Bindata remembered us,
14:52at the 100th minute,
14:54because before,
14:56they were looking at the other side,
14:58we hope that this is a sign,
15:00and that from now on,
15:02we can count on the contribution of fortune.
15:08What was the first thought,
15:10when you were shown,
15:12that you were going to give 10 minutes?
15:18I thought that we could win,
15:20as we could lose,
15:22it was a game like this,
15:24this evening,
15:26we gave, especially in the first half,
15:28a little more possession,
15:30to Scotland,
15:32in the second half,
15:34it was a game made of
15:36attacks,
15:38a continuous up and down,
15:40especially in the last 30 minutes,
15:42we can say,
15:44in which both teams
15:46had ways to win,
15:48because we both knew,
15:50that the draw would not
15:52give hope to any of the two,
15:56and so,
15:58it was like this,
16:00let's say that,
16:02in the end,
16:04we can also say that,
16:06the Scots enjoyed
16:08a great game,
16:10we expected it,
16:12we knew that from a physical point of view,
16:14it was a very dangerous game,
16:16it was like this,
16:18made of transitions,
16:20made of second balls,
16:22made of continuous
16:24attacks,
16:26because in the moment
16:28when the game became less tactical,
16:30it was like this,
16:32and at that point,
16:34they could score,
16:36we could score,
16:38even if we look at the number of chances,
16:40I think we had more than them.
16:44Thank you very much, have a good night.
17:14Thank you very much.