Hungary coach Adam Szalai is “stable and conscious” after becoming unwell in the first half of the team’s Nations League match against the Netherlands.
The 36-year-old, who is a member of head coach Marco Rossi’s coaching staff, became visibly unwell in the seventh minute of Saturday night’s match in Amsterdam.
The match was suspended as medics attended to Szalai, and his fellow coaches former a protective circle around the former striker as he received treatment, before he was taken down the tunnel.
The Hungarian FA posted a statement later during the first half to confirm that Szalai had taken ill during the match and was now on his way to a local Amsterdam hospital, and that he was “stable and conscious.”
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 in which Szalai received treatment, the match restarted with a penalty awarded to the Netherlands following a VAR review, which Wout Weghorst scored to put the home side 1-0 in front. Cody Gakpo doubled the home side’s lead just before half-time.
Szalai was capped 86 times by the Hungarian national side across a 13-year period in which he scored 26 goals and played in Euro 2016.
Having spent three years in Real Madrid’s B team, Szalai’s club career is best known for his time in Germany across spells with Mainz, Schalke, Hoffenheim and Hannover 96, before ending his career at the end of the 2022-23 campaign with Swiss club Basel.
Both the Netherlands and Hungary began their match on five points from their opening four games in League A Group 3 of the Nations League, with both sides aiming to avoid a relegation play-off spot.
(Top image: Laszlo Szirtesi/Getty Images)
