Biography of a football player (part 2) [every correction/comment is highly appreciated :) ] In 1968, they didn’t manage to qualify for the European Championship, they lost again against the Soviet Union. This was the first time in decades, that Hungary didn’t qualify for the tournament. It was even more of an infuriating failure because the country - so proud to their football team - was defeated again by the Soviets, the “big brother” whose troops occupied the country since the 1956 revolution. Two years later, the national team arrived at the absolute humiliation: in 1970 - for the first time in history - Hungary failed to qualify for the World Cup. In the tie-breaker match against Czechslovakia, the Hungarians were defeated by 4-0. This loss can be considered as the official start of the agony of the Hungarian football, that keeps going on ever since. According to Mészöly, the flop was - at least partially - because of the bus driver’s diarrhea, which resulted that the team arrived at the stadium late, so they missed all the warmup and pre-match preparation. This was the last time that Mészöly was leading the national team to an international tournament, after that - as he puts it - he was forgotten.