Kornel Dinu (74), a former international player, intervened in the controversy that rocked the football world on Tuesday when the Hungarian Football Federation announced that UEFA had approved the display of the Great Hungary flag in stadiums for national team matches. The Nyon forum later indicated exclusively to the GSP that it had never approved the use of this type of flag.

Cornel DeanPhoto: gsp.ro

The “Prosecutor” suggested that Hungarians still have the mentality of “immigrated people” and that historically the territories on this flag do not belong to them.

“We have to think, first, I don’t want to discuss history, that they are wrong, that the Hungarians were part of the Austrian Empire and at some point were ‘co-opted.’ Historically they are wrong. The dignity of the Hungarian people and their leaders evokes nostalgia that they were part of the empire. The stubbornness of the Hungarians…they came here in the third or fourth century, Cornell told Dean.

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