The government is using the case of Hungarian football coach Zsolt Petry who has been fired by his German team as a result of his comments on same-sex marriage and immigration to distract attention from the “hundreds of thousands of people it has neglected in Hungary”, the co-leader of opposition LMP said on Sunday.
Máté Kanász-Nagy told an online press conference on Facebook that the “unfortunate case” of Petry losing his job abroad was “not an important issue”, yet even Prime Minister Viktor Orbán had commented on it. At the same time, Orbán still refuses to discuss the livelihood of people working in catering, hairdressers, taxi drivers and those working in other services, and the case of teachers who will be forced to return to school before getting full protection from Covid-19, he added.
Coach Petry Claims Press Misrepresented His Comments
Hungarian football coach, Zsolt Petry, fired by German football club Hertha BSC for controversial statements about migration and same-sex marriage, says the German press misinterpreted and took some of his comments out of context. Furthermore, he claims the publisher of the original interview,
Magyar Nemzet, left out important parts of the script without prior consultation.
As we previously reported, Hungarian goalkeeping coach, Zsolt Petry, was recently fired from his job at German Bundesliga team Hertha BSC for his critical comments to Hungarian pro-government
Magyar Nemzet about star goalie Péter Gulácsi’s support for rainbow families and the subject of migration.
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