French fans confuse Bucharest for Budapest and miss the France-Hungary

The Puskas Arena in Budapest
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Six French fans were confused Budapest with Bucharest and traveled to the Romanian capital instead of the Hungarian, where they would have wanted to go to see the France-Hungary of Group F that was played on Saturday in Budapest, reports this Wednesday the Romanian newspaper National Journal.

The six realized their mistake the same Saturday after landing and take a bus to the center while they drank beer with Ukrainian fans moved to Bucharest for Ukraine-Austria on Monday (Group C).

“Are you from Kiev?” Asked the journalist of Jurnalul National, to which the fans replied that no, that they had been wrong to host the European Championship and they had tickets for Hungary-France to be played in a few hours at the Puskas Arena in the Hungarian capital.

Second chance

Once aware of their mistake, the six fans of the “Blues” they decided to stay in Bucharest until this Wednesday, when France faces Budapest in Portugal in the last match of their group.

If he is first in Group F, the selection is fine will play the round of 16 on June 28th in Bucharest. In this case, the six French will try to buy a ticket to see, this time in France live in this European Championship.

“It’s funny that it’s the national team that comes where we are,” said Manuel, one of the fans of the “blues“, on the possible outcome of the mistake.

“Learn more about Europe”

Confusing Budapest with Bucharest was not the only mistake of these French working together in a computer company on their unfortunate journey east.

Neither the Romanian flags nor the language spoken by airport officials made the group realize that they had come to the wrong place to these fans, who also thought that the Ukrainian fans waving flags of their country they were followers of France’s rival.

“We thought they were Hungarian fans going to the match and we followed them, thinking that as they were from the city they knew the way to the stadium,” said one of the French about how they got to the old quarter of Bucharest, where they finally discovered your mistake and they ended up watching Hungary-France on TV.

“We need to learn more about Europe,” acknowledged one of the group’s members.

Michael Jackson

These young people are not the first to confuse Budapest and Bucharest. The phonetic similarity of the names of the two capitals lends itself to constant confusion among those who visit them and has left for history succulent anecdotes such as the one that starred in it. Michael Jackson 1992.

Before his first concert in the Romanian capital, the famous American singer greeted his fans from the balcony of the Palace of the Romanian Parliament. “Hello Budapest!” Michael Jackson shouted in front of his Romanian fans.