France is host of the ongoing European Championship.

We live in France.

We have never been to a Euro tournament match.

A few matches are being held in Marseille, the closest game site to where we live, in the Languedoc. One of those Marseille matches is Saturday and involves Iceland and Hungary, two long shots to last long in this tournament.

Maybe we could buy a ticket, here a few days ahead, and make the 2.5-hour drive over to Marseille and see a Euro match. An added bonus: Iceland and Hungary fans are unlikely to riot.

But then came the sticker shock.

A local online broker named viaagogo has tickets available to the Iceland-vs.-Hungary match, but the rock bottom price is 90 euros per ticket.

That is $100 per ticket, plus whatever it costs to park, plus a five-hour round trip to a city where Russian and English fans ran amok over the weekend.

So …

The game is interesting, and not in the sense of “two of the best teams in Europe”, because these two are not. Hungary is ranked 20th in the world, according to Fifa.com, and Iceland is 34. Behind even the U.S. (31).

Not that it matters, but Iceland pulled off a 1-1 “victory” tonight versus “Cristiano Ronaldo and Portugal” (official usage). Earlier, Hungary beat Austria 2-0.

But what interests me about these two is that a winner of their match would be nearly assured a place in the 16-team knockout round.

That would be Iceland (population 330,000), the smallest country to play in the Euros, which is in the middle of the greatest run of results in that island nation’s history … and Hungary, showing more spark than it has in a long time, perhaps since the 1950s, when the Mighty Magyars of Ferenc Puskas crushed “masters-of-the-game” England in the Game of the Century, 6-3 at Wembley in 1953, and 7-1 in Budapest in 1954 — still the worst defeat inflicted on an England side.

That Hungary side ran off an unbeaten streak of 31 matches in the early 1950s (basically, it was the Spain of the mid-century), including the two drubbings of England.

Hungary’s team widely was considered to be decades ahead of their time in tactics and conditioning, and that group of players is almost certainly the greatest team never to win a World Cup.

(The Hungarians somehow contrived to lose to West Germany 3-2 in the 1954 World Cup final, ending their long unbeaten run, after having beaten the Germans 8-3 earlier in the tournament, before Puskas was hurt.)

So, to see little Hungary (population 9.8 million) fighting to be a player on the world stage again, against littler Iceland, struggling to be relevant on the world stage for the first time … it has its attractions.

But at $100 a ticket? That’s real money. And a long drive. To a city known for football-related violence …

(Plus, I have seen Hungary’s national team once, in 1990, when they beat the World Cup-bound U.S. team, in a friendly in in Budapest, 2-0.)

Instead, I will watch the Saturday match on TV … and then we shall see how much I wish I had gone to the stadium.