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Hungary Football Club Takes Team's Car Keys after Defeat

Hungarian football champions Gyori ETO found an original way to punish their players after an embarrassing defeat, by confiscating the keys to their high-end cars, a media report said Thursday.

The management of the club, which took its fourth Hungarian league title last season, struck back after the team went down 3-0 last weekend against bottom-of-the-league side Mezokovesd-Zsory SE, the news portal kisalfold.hu reported.

Gyori ETO slipped to sixth in the league table after the game.

The players now see themselves deprived of the use of their Audi cars, which they received for free as the German carmaker has one of its main European plant in the northwestern Hungarian city and is also the club's main sponsor.

The club declined to say when the keys would be returned to the players, kisalfold.hu said.

Source: Agence France Presse


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