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Bernd Storck announces 18-man squad for training camp
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Hungary head coach Bernd Storck has named an 18-man squad to participate in the first part of a fortnight-long training camp in Telki from Monday 22nd August onwards.
Following Hungary’s successful Euro 2016 campaign this summer the team will, on 6th September, embark on the qualifying campaign for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. A difficult group awaits Storck’s men, the only one with three participants of the Euro 2016 knockout stages in it, amongst them the European champions Portugal. As well as hosts Russia, 13 teams from this continent will qualify for the World Cup – the winners of each of the eight qualifying groups plus four teams who win two-legged play-off ties contested by the second-placed teams from the eight groups.
As well as the afore-mentioned Portugal, Hungary will also face the Faroe Islands, Switzerland, Latvia and Andorra in their bid to become one of those eight qualifying group winners. Their first fixture will be away in Torshavn on 6th September against the Faroes, an opponent they faced in the last Euro campaign when they won home and away, 1-0 in Torshavn thanks to an Ádám Szalai goal and 2-1 at home thanks to substitute Dániel Böde’s double strike. The training camp starting on 22nd August will feature only domestically-based players but they will be joined by Hungary’s ‘foreign legion’ on 29th August for the second week.
Seven players from the Euro 2016 adventure will feature during both weeks, amongst them Zoltán Gera who has decided to continue his international career despite his long-time teammates Gábor Király and Roland Juhász recently announcing their retirement.
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Several players from the national Under 21 squad can be found on Storck’s latest list of names as well as those totally new to the international scene such as Diosgyőr’s István Bognár and Honvéd’s Márton Eppel. Videoton’s István Kovács also returns to the fold.