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Hungary’s MOL Group has agreed to acquire a majority stake in Budapest-based Ujpest football club from Belgian businessman Roderick Duchatelet. Over the years, Viktor Orban’s cronies and allies have effectively colonised Hungary’s top football, and Ujpest became the last among the 12 top clubs to lose its ‘independence.’ MOL could ‘do more for the success of Ujpest FC as an owner, which can only strengthen Hungarian football further,’ said Peter Ratatics, MOL’s executive in charge of retail services, who will represent the company at the club. The transaction is expected to close at the end of…

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