Kubala, Czibor and Kocsis, the three great Hungarian stars of Barça who arrived from Ferencvaros

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The duel that Barça and Ferencvaros will play in the Barça team's debut in the Champions League this season will have a vintage flavor.

More than 60 years ago, three great Hungarian stars, all three with past in the Magyar team, shared a dressing room in the Barcelona team:

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Curiously, only the last two, Czibor and Kocsis, came to coincide in the ranks of the Green Eagles, but Kubala, in the end, would become the great architect of their meeting at the Barça club.

And also, in the fact that Puskas ended up landing at Real Madrid.

That, however, is another story.

The first of the three Hungarian stars is, perhaps, the one that shone the most at Barça.

Not surprisingly, the great expectation raised by Kubala (Budapest, 1927) was what caused the team to have to

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The same venue where, several years before another Barça legend, Johan Cruyff, joined him, he is remembered with a sculpture in his honor.

His time at Ferencvaros was fleeting, he was only in their ranks for a couple of years, but it was significant: it marked his debut in the elite.

After several vicissitudes, with team changes and even selection in between (he came to play with Hungary and what was then Czechoslovakia before ending up with Spain from 1953), he ended up joining a legendary team, that of the Five Cups, although the European Cup would be his eternal unfinished business.

Kubala arrived at Barça in 1950 and debuted in an official match in 1951, taking advantage of one of the few opening windows in the Spanish League for foreigners to join.

Until 1958, there was no option for more foreigners to join.

Most especially, those who, in the language of the time "fled from the clutches of communism."

Czibor (Kaposvar, 1929), Kocsis (Budapest, 1929), Puskas (Budapest, 1927) and other players then in

, who played in Belgium against Athletic in the European Cup after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956, decided do not return to your country.

Kubala, who never lost contact with several of them, first convinced Kocsis, who briefly passed through the Swiss Young Fellows, to join him in the Barcelona team.

Then, between them, they did the same with Czibor, who played one year in Roma.

Barna's final

The dream of playing together began to have a bitter awakening in the final in Bern, 1961. There,

, the dream of winning the European Cup slipped through their fingers.

The same scenario in which Kocsis and Czibor lost the 1954 World Cup final to what was then the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the so-called final of the sticks, the Portuguese won 3-2 against the Catalans.

Czibor left Barça that same summer and ended up at Espanyol for a season.

In 1962, it would be Kubala who would sign for the Blue and White team, where he would later coincide with former Madrid player Alfredo di Stéfano, with whom he played several friendlies defending the Barça team.

Kocsis, for his part, would hang up his boots at Barça in 1965. After retiring, he even ran a cocktail bar, but died in 1979, in Barcelona, ​​after rushing from the window of the hospital where he was being treated. stomach cancer.

His widow, in a book, tried to justify it as a simple accident, pointing out that he had to come close to close it and fell into the void.

A point of view that was by no means widely shared.

Czibor, for his part, after also playing in Europe, Basel, Austria Vienna and even Canada's Toronto City, would retire as a player in 1965 and eventually return to Hungary, where he would die in 1997, at the age 68 years old.

Kubala was the oldest of the three.

, at the age of 74, a victim of a degenerative disease after having gone through a series of significant financial difficulties in the last years of his existence.

To his credit, however, there will always be the fact of having been the first great media star of Barça.

Such a great figure that he forced the club to build a new stadium.

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