Gyorgy Mezey's stint as Videoton first team manager comes to an end on Sunday. His Videoton side will play the final match, away at Ujpest, in Budapest, bringing down the curtains on a successful era for the club. Several Vidi players have represented the Hungarian national side in the past. 2004 saw Zoltan Herczegvalvi, Balazs Toth and Attila Kriston all put on the national shirt. They were followed later by Illes Sitku and Akos Koller. More than 30 Videoton players have represented Hungary over the years. However, there has been a lengthy period recently were Vidi players found it hard to catch the attention of the national team manager. Illes Sitku's appearance on the 19th December 2005, against Antigua and Barbuda was the last one, before the arrival of Gyorgy Mezey to the Fehervar hot seat. Hungarian national team managers, Peter Bozsik, Peter Varhidi and Erwin Koeman all looked "elsewhere" when picking their squads, even though Vidi won the Hungarian cup in 2006! The ice was broken in the autumn of 2009, when Gabor Horvath became the first player under Mezey, to be named in the national squad. With the new Videoton squad taking shape, this resulted in Daniel Nagy, Zsolt Sebok and Balazs Farkas all being named in their national squad. 

Sandor Egervari was named as the new Hungarian manager in the summer of 2010, and things began to change for the better from then on. Egervari had been the manager of the successful U20 side that came third, in the world cup in Egypt, a year earlier. He wasn't shy to call up talented young Hungarian players into his international squad. He brought Zoltan Liptak, Pal Lazar and Akos Elek into his set up, and has remained loyal to them ever since. Elek made his debut in a match under Koeman, in Rotterdam, against Holland on the 5th June 2010, while Liptak got his first chance, in Egervari's first game against England, at Wembley on the 3rd September 2010. Lazar made his debut in a game in Stockholm, the following week. That match against Sweden saw three Videoton players in the starting eleven. The last time that this had happened, with three Videoton players in the same side, was back on the 21st August 1984, under then national team manager, Gyorgy Mezey, in a match at the Nepstadium, Budapest, which saw Hungary beat Switzerland 3-0.  

Goalkeeper Peter Disztl, defender Laszlo Disztl and Jozsef Csuhay all played in that side. Videoton also saw several players represented in both the U20 and U21 side during the last three years. They included Adam Presinger, Denes Szakaly, Balazs Farkas II, Laszlo Lencse and Andras Gosztonyi. Pal Lazar and Akos Elek also featured in games for the young Hungarian sides during the same period. So the last three and a half years under the management of Gyorgy Mezey have seen major steps forward on the international front, with regards to Videoton players. No one can doubt that they have also been successful years, with the Videoton side winning this season's Monicomp League title. That was the first in the clubs history, but now a new era awaits, with the appointment of Portuguese manager Paulo Sousa, who will take up his new role at the beginning of June. Let's hope that he is just as successful, if not more, than his predecessor, Gyorgy Mezey.