The paper seeks to find out how Hungarian literary texts are related to the extended web of texts which recount the story, and thus preserve the memory, of the Golden Team, the West German team and the 1954 World Cup. Among other pieces, the poem of Lőrinc Szabó, Vereség után is analyzed, focusing on the sense-relations attributed to this key event of Hungarian football, through the poesy. Besides this post-modern piece, which actualizes the topic of romantics, the paper also surveys the Bern-apocrypha of Péter Esterházy and László Darvasi, which trick the reader by a retro-active rewriting of then events.

full text in Sic Itur ad Astra 62. (2011)