Hungary coach Adam Szalai ‘stable and conscious’ after medical emergency in Netherlands game

Hungary coach Adam Szalai is “secure and acutely aware” after turning into unwell within the first half of the staff’s Nations League match in opposition to the Netherlands.

The 36-year-old, a member of head coach Marco Rossi’s backroom workers, grew to become unwell within the seventh minute of Saturday night time’s match in Amsterdam.

The match was suspended as medics attended to Szalai and his fellow coaches shaped a protecting circle round him as he acquired therapy, earlier than the previous striker was taken down the tunnel.

The Hungarian FA posted an announcement later throughout the first half to substantiate that Szalai had taken in poor health throughout the match, was now on his solution to an Amsterdam hospital and that he was “secure and acutely aware”.

Szalai Ádám a Hollandia-Magyarország mérkőzés első perceiben rosszul lett, állapota azonban stabil, eszméleténél van. Percekkel ezelőtt mentővel elszállították az egyik amszterdami kórházba kivizsgálásra.

— MLSZ (@MLSZhivatalos) November 16, 2024

After a 14-minute delay by which Szalai acquired therapy, the match restarted with a penalty awarded to the Netherlands following a VAR evaluate, which Wout Weghorst scored to place the house facet 1-0 up. Cody Gakpo doubled their lead simply earlier than half-time.

Szalai was capped 86 instances by the Hungarian nationwide facet throughout a 13-year interval by which he scored 26 targets and performed in Euro 2016.

Having spent three years in Actual Madrid’s B staff, Szalai is finest identified for his time in Germany throughout spells with Mainz, Schalke, Hoffenheim and Hannover 96, earlier than ending his profession on the finish of the 2022-23 marketing campaign with Swiss membership Basel.

The Netherlands and Hungary started their match on 5 factors from their opening 4 video games in League A Group 3 of the Nations League, with each side aiming to keep away from a relegation play-off spot.

(Laszlo Szirtesi/Getty Photos)