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On internet you can buy Gábor Király's tracksuit pants

We are not kidding, there's a website that sells the typical pants of the Hungarian goalkeeper

On internet you can buy Gábor Király's tracksuit pants We are not kidding, there's a website that sells the typical pants of the Hungarian goalkeeper

Do you remember Gábor Király? It's a rhetorical question because we already know that clearly you have not forgotten the famous Hungarian goalkeeper that used to play with the sweatpants instead of shorts. First of all, did you know that he still plays? In 2016 he was at the European Championships with Hungary, and after a long route between Germany and England Király is back to Haladas, the club of his hometown where his football career had begun. Always wearing the famous grey trousers.

Over the years Kiraly has repeatedly said why he used this unusual outfit, since he was very young. At first it was a matter of superstition, then it became a real habit because he always preferred to be concrete and pragmatic when there was to play and the weather is cold, overshadowing the fact of being (according to many) absolutely horrible, especially when he stuffed the bottom of the wide trousers inside the socks. "I'm a goalie, not a top model!" How to wrong him?

As a symbol of a football that no longer exists, in the last hours the 43 year old is back actual because there's a website (kiralyshop.hu, it should be his official website) where were put on sale the typical tracksuit pants that is usual wear the former Hertha Berlin and Crystal Palace goalkeeper. They are just as you imagine them: grey with a small patch the inscription K1RALY and a silhouette of a man, are made of 92% stretch cotton and cost just 9000 Hungarian florins, the equivalent of £25.