Kevin Kurányi

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Kevin Kurányi
Kevin Kurányi in 2005
Personal information
Full name Kevin Dennis Kurányi
Date of birth March 2, 1982 (1982-03-02) (age 26)
Place of birth    Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current club FC Schalke 04
Number 22
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2001–2003
2001–2005
2005–		 VfB Stuttgart II
VfB Stuttgart
FC Schalke 04		 033 (10)
099 (40)
096 (40)   
National team2
2003– Germany 046 (19)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of May 17, 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of April 15, 2008.
* Appearances (Goals)

Kevin Dennis Kurányi (born March 2, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro) is a German football player, who currently plays for the German Bundesliga team Schalke 04, as a tall striker with top aerial ability and finishing skills.

He was born to a German-Hungarian[1] father and a Panamanian mother. He eventually opted to play for the German national football team after being qualified to play for Brazil, Hungary and Panama[2].

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[edit] Player profile

[edit] Club career

Kuranyi started his career in 1988, for Petrópolis-based Serrano FC in Brazil, when he was six years old. In 1993 he transferred to Panamanian club Las Promesas, where he played for only one year before going back to Serrano FC. Kuranyi returned to Las Promesas in 1996 for another year. In 1997 he moved to Germany, enlisting at VfB Stuttgart's B youth team. After playing a few games in the Germany national under-21 football team, he was considered for VfB's professional team and, in 2001, signed his first professional contract.

After 33 matches (10 goals) for the amateur team he played 99 matches for VfB Stuttgart's professional team, scoring 40 goals. He also took part in 22 European team championship games and scored 10 goals. In the 2002-2003 season of the Bundesliga, he was the best German goal-scorer and was one of the main reasons Stuttgart finished second in the league. In this particular season, VfB and its "Junge Wilde" ("wild young ones") – Timo Hildebrand, Andreas Hinkel, Alexander Hleb, Philipp Lahm and Kuranyi – delighted the fans in Germany with superb attacking football.

He left Stuttgart during the 2005 summer transfer window to join Schalke 04, signing until 2009-2010. At Gelsenkirchen, he finished top goalscorer for the team from 2005-08, while the team achieved three consecutive UEFA Champions League berths.

On April 15, 2008, Kuranyi scored 4 goals in Schalke's 5-0 defeat of Energie Cottbus in a league match, the other being an own goal. Three days earlier, incidentally, Schalke were beaten 5-1 at Werder Bremen, with Kuranyi also netting.

[edit] International career

Kuranyi made his debut for Germany during the Euro 2004 qualifier against Lithuania on March 29, 2003. In his third appearance, the young striker netted Germany's final qualifying goal in their 3-0 rout of Iceland. He played for his adopted country at the tournament's finals and at the Confederations Cup 2005 but, because of his underachievements in the season of 2005/2006, was not nominated for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

In 2006-2007 he regained his form. After an absence of 15 months he was therefore recalled to play for the national team, scoring during Germany's 3-1 win against Switzerland on February 7, 2007, in a friendly in Düsseldorf. In Germany's Euro 2008 qualifying match against the Czech Republic on March 24, he scored both goals in the 2-1 victory.

[edit] Personal

He has German, Panamanian and Brazilian citizenship. Kuranyi's favorite club is CR Flamengo.[3] He can speak English, Portuguese, German, and some Spanish and Hungarian.

His wife Viktorija Peličić is Croatian. On September 27, 2005 Kuranyi and his wife had their first child, a son named Karlo. They married on April 28, 2007 in Stuttgart.

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Club

(as of 3 May 2008)

All-Time Club Performance
Club Season Domestic League Domestic Cup European Competition Total
App Goals App Goals App  Goals App Goals
Schalke 04 07-08 32 15 4 2 8 3 44 20
06-07 34 15 2 2 2 0 38 17
05-06 30 10 4 1 12 3 46 14
Total 96 40 10 5 22 6 128 51
VfB Stuttgart 04-05 29 13 4 2 5 3 38 18
03-04 33 11 3 1 8 3 44 15
02-03 32 15 2 2 8 4 42 21
01-02 5 1 1 1 0 0 6 2
Total 99 40 10 6 21 10 130 56
Career Totals 195 80 20 11 43 16 258 107

[edit] International

All-Time International Performance
National Team Year Friendlies International Competition Total
App Goals App Goals App  Goals
Germany
2008 2 0 0 0 2 0
2007 3 2 6 3 9 5
2006 0 0 0 0 0 0
2005 10 1 5 2 15 3
2004 10 10 3 0 13 10
2003 3 0 4 1 7 1
Career Totals 28 13 16 6 46 19

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kevin Kurányi. Sky Sports. Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  2. ^ Kevin Kurányi. BBC Sport (2004-05-25). Retrieved on 2008-06-09.
  3. ^ Flamenguista Kevin Kuranyi sonha marcar gol e derrotar o Brasil na final da Copa (Portuguese). Retrieved on 2007-10-05.

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