Bodor Ferenc: Coffee-Houses - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1992)

Gól (goal)

This ball dropped into the mythological curve of Corvin köz like Deák Bamba’s header into the Austrian goal back in ’54, though he had been forced to wear the shabby dress of the C team at the time. In this section of the city, swamped by the bilge oozing out of American movies, there was just enough room left over to squeeze in the Gól café. In Pivo very much, says the poster on the wall; youngsters suckle at the udders of the slot-machines. The Ferencváros flag is limp, like their mid-field of late. Behind shopping-bags acting as sand-bags weary Australian freedom-fighters huddle, clutching bouquets wrapped in cellophane. They say the rope snapped beneath Lollobrigida once in the film Trapeze and the beauty sheathed in silver lamé flew in and swept the Zsiráf beers off all the tables.

2 KISFALUDY KÖZ, Vili.

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