Lastly, as a football fan, I wonder, do Hungarian-speaking players play for the Romanian national team? And do Hungarian-speakers tend to support Hungary when they play Romania? I see some in Brussels who just say that they support both sides and we had a coach in Beglium, Lazlo Boloni, who was like that but is this common?
I do not follow soccer, but in a sport I do follow, women's artistic gymnastics, the influence of Hungarians on the formerly dominant Romanian program has always been noteworthy. The program came to prominence under the leadership of Béla and Márta Károlyi and has featured stars like Ecaterina Szabó and half-Hungarian Emilia Eberle. (There were also strong competitors of other ethnicities, such as Lavinia Miloșovici and Melita Rühn.) Romanian gymnastics was headquartered at the Transylvanian city of Deva, which is overwhelmingly Romanian now but has had a large Hungarian population in the past.
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