Hungary have ridden back into contention for international honours on the back of billions of euros and one man's passion for football.
Felcsut, 28 miles outside of Budapest, is home to fewer than 2,000 people. Yet the stadium seats nearly 4,000.
The finest of them all - Hungary's captain Ferenc Puskas - wound up at Real Madrid, where he was given the nickname 'Pancho'. Orban was a good footballer as well. He played for the youth team of top-flight team Fehervar , before law school and a political career - supercharged by the fall of communism in Eastern Europe in 1989 - focused his career aspirations elsewhere.His coach once described him as "quick on the ball" - a talent that has translated to his political career - and during his first term as prime minister, he would still turn out for his home village's team.
"If you are an aspiring oligarch or someone who wants to be close to the system, then you have to give back in a way that then you support your local football team."Orban's government introduced the Tao programme - a scheme that enabled corporations to write off donations to clubs in certain sports as a tax deduction.
"Until the introduction of the Tao, the world of entrepreneurs and sports did not maintain any relationship with each other. Since 2009, they have been at every Hungary home and away game, leading chants and marches, waving torches and setting off flares. Critics say that the Child Protection Law brought in by the Orban government conflates homosexuality and paedophilia.
On the pitch, there is an unanswered question at the heart of Orban's project: how much of the success of the national football team is down to the billions he has lavished on the sport? His football project has added a new historical layer to Hungary, where communist-era tower blocks, grand Austro-Hungarian buildings, and Ottoman baths betray a tumultuous past.
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