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Das Feature: A Rom dreams of the Champions League – the Hungarian football legend Istvan Mezei
Prize-winner 2019
CIVIS Special Prize Sports
| Author: | Mirko Schwanitz |
| Editorial: | Wolfgang Schiller |
| Direction: | Wolfgang Rindfleisch |
Content
Istvan Mezei is a legend in Hungary. In 1980 he accompanied the Hungarian Olympic football team to Moscow. Shortly afterwards, the football activist founded the country’s first Roma team and organised a Roma youth league with Hungarian football idol Janos Farkas. When excessive violence against Roma occurred in Eastern Europe in the 1990s, he organised football tournaments between the police and Roma. The life story of a football fanatic and his ongoing fight against discrimination.
Excerpt from the jury’s statement
Credible and comprehensible – technically brilliant. Shows the integrative power of football, opens up a world you don’t know.
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