Sándor Torghelle

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Sándor Torghelle
Personal information
Date of birth	May 5, 1982 (1982-05-05) (age 26)
Place of birth	Budapest, Hungary
Height	1.85 m
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	FC Augsburg
Youth clubs
-1999 1999-2002	FC Marcali Budapest Honvéd FC
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008-	Budapest Honvéd FC FC Marcali Budapest Honvéd FC MTK Hungária FC Crystal Palace F.C. Panathinaikos PAOK Thessaloniki FC FC Carl Zeiss Jena FC Augsburg	18 0(4) 22 0(7) 27 (10) 22 0(9) 12 0(0) 11 0(0) 24 0(1) 27 0(8)
National team2
2004-2006	Hungary	25 0(7)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16:58, 13 November 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 23:25, 23 August 2007 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Sándor Torghelle (born May 5, 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian footballer, playing as a striker. He came to prominence after scoring both goals in a 2-0 victory over Germany in a friendly match in 2004.

He spent one season playing for Crystal Palace F.C., after being signed from MTK Hungária in August 2004 for a fee of roughly £750,000. He wore the number 10 shirt, that of a first-choice striker, but found it hard to gain a regular place in the Crystal Palace starting eleven with Andy Johnson often playing as a lone striker. He scored only one goal in a League Cup match against Charlton FC, but the referee sent off Sándor in the 72 min. In Crystal Palace's reserve team, he scored 6 goals in 21 matches.

After 12 months at Palace, Torghelle was first stripped of his first-team squad number (given number 30, while 10 went to new signing Jon Macken), and shortly after was loaned out to Panathinaikos in Greece for the 2005-06 season. In the deal, there was no clause for re-calling Sándor, so he spent the whole season in Greece. However, Torghelle failed to impress, and Panathinaikos chose not to make the deal permanent. Torghelle was transferred to PAOK Thessaloniki FC in Greece and handed a 3-year contract, being one of the three players that were traded for the transfer of striker Dimitris Salpingidis.

Torghelle was also famous for his failure to score even a single goal since he was transferred from Crystal Palace, yet this "curse" was lifted when he scored in a PAOK-Olympiakos derby in early 2007. He left PAOK at the end of the 2006-07 season for the German 2. Bundesliga team FC Carl Zeiss Jena. There, he finally met the expectations, scoring five goals and giving three assists (as at 2. Bundesliga matchday 12 of the 2007-08 season).

[edit] International goals

Sándor Torghelle: International Goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	28 April 2004	Budapest	Brazil	1-4	Loss	Friendly
2	6 June 2004	Kaiserslautern	Germany	2-0	Win	Friendly
3	6 June 2004	Kaiserslautern	Germany	2-0	Win	Friendly
4	8 September 2004	Budapest	Iceland	3-2	Win	FIFA World Cup 2006 Qual.
5	15 August 2005	Budapest	Argentina	1-2	Loss	Friendly
6	3 September 2005	Budapest	Malta	4-0	Win	FIFA World Cup 2006 Qual.
7	11 October 2006	Ta'Qali	Malta	1-2	Loss	UEFA Euro 2008 Qual.