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{"id":25819,"date":"2026-07-14T17:17:19","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/soccer-nut-viktor-orban-has-world-cup-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:17:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:17:19","slug":"soccer-nut-viktor-orban-has-world-cup-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/soccer-nut-viktor-orban-has-world-cup-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Soccer nut Viktor Orb\u00e1n has World Cup thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n \u2014 Hungary\u2019s former prime minister, a Donald Trump acolyte and an avid soccer fan \u2014 is set to attend both semifinals and the final of the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Despite an endorsement from the U.S. president, Orb\u00e1n <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-election-results-peter-magyar-viktor-orban\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>lost<\/u> Hungary\u2019s election in a landslide<\/a>in April, and has made few public appearances since. Hungarian outlet Index <a href=\"https:\/\/index.hu\/sport\/futball\/2026\/vb\/2026\/07\/13\/orban-viktor-egyesult-allamok-vilagbajnoksag\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>reported<\/u> that the former prime minister<\/a>, who remains leader of his Fidesz party, traveled to the U.S. on Monday to attend the World Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Index, Orb\u00e1n said that he could not predict the result of tonight\u2019s Spain-France matchup but that France was the better team.<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n went on to compare the match to the 1954 World Cup final, in which West Germany upset the overwhelming favorite Hungary 3-2. \u201cWe were the best team, but we still couldn&#8217;t win,\u201d Orb\u00e1n said.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Orb\u00e1n\u2019s party has never looked weaker at home. On Monday, Fidesz\u2019s parliamentary leader Gergely Guly\u00e1s resigned from his leadership post, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/hungary-parliament-vote-oust-viktor-orban-president-tamas-sulyok\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hungarian parliament <u>passed<\/u> a sweeping constitutional amendment<\/a> ousting a number of top officials whom Orb\u00e1n appointed, including the country\u2019s president.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOrban is abandoning his dwindling followers to attend the World Cup (with no Hungarian team still playing),\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AmbDanFried\/status\/2076762774416355591\" target=\"_blank\"><u>said<\/u> former U.S. State Department official Daniel Fried on X<\/a>. \u201cNot a great look.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Orb\u00e1n was a semiprofessional soccer player while earning his law degree in the 1980s, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2026\/04\/10\/victor-orban-hungary-elections-soccer-00863547\" target=\"_blank\">his government <u>invested<\/u> heavily in soccer during his 16-year rule<\/a>. He founded his own soccer club, Pusk\u00e1s Akad\u00e9mia, in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Viktor Orb\u00e1n \u2014 Hungary\u2019s former prime minister, a Donald Trump acolyte and an avid soccer fan \u2014 is set to attend both semifinals and the final of the World Cup. Despite an endorsement from the U.S. president, Orb\u00e1n lost Hungary\u2019s election in a landslidein April, and has made few public appearances since. Hungarian outlet Index [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}