Tags: Soccer Tournoment, Tournament.
The 1952 Olympic football tournament signalled the arrival (to Western Europeans at least) of the Hungarian national football team – the Magical Magyars. Ferenc Puskás later said of the 1952 competition: It was during the Olympics that our football first started to flow with real power. It was during the Games that Stanley Rous of English Football Association invited the Hungarians to play a friendly at Wembley the following year.