Unfortunately, that match also set the tone for a year of bitter controversy.
Further controversy has been caused by a questionnaire sent to all Hungarians by Orban's government to sound out their views on immigration.
The father of the woman at the centre of the controversy told the court on Tuesday: "My daughter is dead, the chances of the foetus surviving are minimal, we have been told.
In the 1991 book that popularised that term, the sociologist James Davison Hunter recorded a European friend expressing surprise that Americans "typically conduct their lives in private and with little controversy".
Abbott addressed the controversy when he faced the media in Houston, Texas, on the last leg of his trip to North America.
Devlet Bahceli, leader of the opposition Nationalist Movement party (MHP), said the controversy was a political manoeuvre devised by Erdogan to "cover up his faults", including corruption claims targeting his inner circle.
Efforts to allow civil unions in Italy have caused political controversy.
But this is not the first time that Dequenne has appeared in a film linked to a real-life controversy.
