One of the aspiring countries to become number one national football team once but also failed twice in winning the title in FIFA World Cup in the year 3rd and 5th competition in the year 1938 and 1954 is this another European country, Hungary, which cannot be excluded in the history book of the most prominent soccer tournament in the world.
Facing their Italian opponent in the final match of the 1938 FIFA World Cup, the national team of Hungary had failed to claim their first title in a losing score of 4-2.
Another chance had been swept away for the national football team of Hungary by the German team in the 1954 FIFA World Cup when the final match between the two teams had ended in a concluding score of 3-2 in favor of the latter team.
In spite of those failures met by the Hungarian national team, they had this exceptional achievement in the history of World Cup when one of their players had been included in one of the top scorers in FIFA World Cup with 11 goals in just one tournament and that will be credited to Sandor Kocsis.
Kocsis’ goal streaks in the history of World Cup started with a hat trick record during their match against an Asian country, South Korea, in the first round of the 1954 tournament giving a very satisfactory win for their team with a 9-0 final score.
Sandor’s highest number of goals in just one game was scored also in the first round against the team which had beaten them in the final match, West Germany, with an 8-4 final score.
The Hungarian striker’s 8th and 9th goals were kicked in and exploited against the Brazilian team in the quarterfinal round of the same year of World Cup helping them to advance in the semi-final with a last score of 4-2.
Another two goals were put in by Sandor Kocsis in their match against a South American country, Uruguay in their collision in the semi-final match of the tournament definitively gave helping edge to win the match in the finishing score of 4-2 also to progress in the final round but failed to score and losing in the field against West Germany in 3-2 score.
The brilliant soccer skill of this Hungarian striker was a superb show for the fans seeing him playing for well-known soccer clubs like Barcelona in which he appeared for 75 times and scored 42 goals.
At the end of the astounding playing career of Sandor Kocsis, he had managed two football clubs, Hercules and Alicante, and at the age of just 49, he died in Barcelona, Spain leaving the world of soccer with amazement.
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