Kevin Kurányi
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| Personal information | ||
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| Full name | Kevin Dennis Kurányi | |
| Date of birth | 2 March 1982 | |
| Place of birth | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | |
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Schalke | |
| Number | 22 | |
| Youth career | ||
| 1988–1993 1993–1994 1995 1996 1996 1997 1997–2001 |
Serrano FC Las Promesas Sporting 89 San Miguelito Serrano FC Las Promesas Serrano FC VfB Stuttgart |
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| Senior career1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2001–2003 2001–2005 2005– |
Stuttgart II Stuttgart Schalke |
33 (10) 99 (40) 129 (53) |
| National team | ||
| 2002–2003 2003–2008 |
Germany U-21 Germany |
6 (2) 52 (19) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Kevin Dennis Kurányi (born 2 March 1982 in Rio de Janeiro) is a German footballer who plays for the Bundesliga club Schalke 04. He is a striker who possesses aerial ability and finishing skills.
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[edit] Early life
He was born in Brazil 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]
[edit] Career
[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 2002–03 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, signing until 2009–10. At Gelsenkirchen, he finished top goalscorer for the team from 2005–08, while the team achieved three consecutive UEFA Champions League berths.
On 15 April 2008, Kuranyi scored four 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 29 March 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 2005 Confederations Cup but, because of his underachievements in the season of 2005–06, was not nominated for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.
In 2006–07 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 7 February 2007, in a friendly in Düsseldorf. In Germany's Euro 2008 qualifying match against the Czech Republic on 24 March, he scored both goals in the 2-1 victory. He was brought on during the second half of the Euro 2008 final against Spain for Thomas Hitzlsperger, but was unable to help the Germans score in the 0-1 loss, receiving a yellow card in the process. Incidentally, the appearance in the final marked his 50th cap for Germany.
On 11 October 2008 Kurányi was left out of the 18-man squad to face Russia. After watching the first half from stands with the other unselected players, he left the stadium during the half-time interval and failed to return to the German team hotel. After this incident, German team coach Joachim Löw said that he would never again select Kurányi for the national team[3]. One of his advisors said of the incident to reporters, "He decided what he for himself found to be right, which was to say I’m going home."[4]
[edit] International goals
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- Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first:
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 11 October 2003 | AOL Arena, Hamburg, Germany |  Iceland |
3-0 | 3-0 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 2. | 31 March 2004 | RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne, Germany |  Belgium |
1-0 | 3-0 | Friendly |
| 3. | 2 June 2004 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland |  Switzerland |
1-0 | 2-0 | Friendly |
| 4. | 2 June 2004 | St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland | Switzerland |
2-0 | 2-0 | Friendly |
| 5. | 18 August 2004 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria |  Austria |
1-0 | 3-1 | Friendly |
| 6. | 18 August 2004 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria | Austria |
2-1 | 3-1 | Friendly |
| 7. | 18 August 2004 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria | Austria |
3-1 | 3-1 | Friendly |
| 8. | 8 September 2004 | Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany |  Brazil |
1-1 | 1-1 | Friendly |
| 9. | 17 November 2004 | Zentralstadion, Leipzig, Germany |  Cameroon |
1-0 | 3-0 | Friendly |
| 10. | 21 December 2004 | Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand |  Thailand |
1-0 | 5-1 | Friendly |
| 11. | 21 December 2004 | Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand | Thailand |
2-0 | 5-1 | Friendly |
| 12. | 9 February 2005 | LTU Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany |  Argentina |
2-1 | 2-2 | Friendly |
| 13. | 15 June 2005 | Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany |  Australia |
1-0 | 4-3 | FIFA Confederations Cup 2005 |
| 14. | 21 June 2005 | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany | Argentina |
1-0 | 2-2 | FIFA Confederations Cup 2005 |
| 15. | 7 February 2007 | LTU Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany | Switzerland |
1-0 | 3-1 | Friendly |
| 16. | 24 March 2007 | Stadion Eden, Prague, Czech Republic |  Czech Republic |
1-0 | 2-1 | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying |
| 17. | 24 March 2007 | Stadion Eden, Prague, Czech Republic | Czech Republic |
2-0 | 2-1 | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying |
| 18. | 2 June 2007 | Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany |  San Marino |
1-0 | 6-0 | UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying |
| 19. | 22 August 2007 | Wembley Stadium, London, England |  England |
1-1 | 2-1 | Friendly |
[edit] Personal
He has German, Panamanian and Brazilian citizenship. Kuranyi's favorite club is CR Flamengo.[5] He can speak English, Portuguese, German, and some Spanish and Hungarian.
His wife Viktorija Peličić is Croatian. On 27 September 2005 Kuranyi and his wife had their first child, a son named Karlo. They married on 28 April 2007 in Stuttgart. Their second child, a daughter named Vivien Carmen, was born on 6 January 2008.
[edit] Statistics
[edit] Club
As of 15 May 2009[update]
| Club | Season | Domestic League | Domestic Cup | European Competition | Total | ||||
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| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Schalke | 08-09 | 33 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 15 |
| 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 | 129 | 53 | 12 | 6 | 26 | 7 | 167 | 66 | |
| 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 | 228 | 93 | 22 | 12 | 47 | 17 | 297 | 122 | |
[edit] International
| National Team | Year | Friendlies | International Competition | Total | |||
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| App | Goals | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
| Germany | |||||||
| 2008 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 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 | 29 | 13 | 21 | 6 | 50 | 19 | |
[edit] References
- ^ "Kevin Kurányi". Sky Sports. http://www.skysports.com/football/euro2008/player-profiles/0,23132,12023_92950,00.html. Retrieved on 9 June 2008.
- ^ "Kevin Kurányi". BBC Sport. 25 May 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/3590697.stm. Retrieved on 9 June 2008.
- ^ "Löw won't nominate Kurányi again" (in German). dfb.de. 12 October 2008. http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500014&no_cache=1&tx_dfbnews_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=16019. Retrieved on 12 October 2008.
- ^ "Kuranyi Leaves Stands, Gets the Boot From Loew". http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3706577,00.html. Retrieved on 12 October 2008.
- ^ "Flamenguista Kevin Kuranyi sonha marcar gol e derrotar o Brasil na final da Copa" (in Portuguese). http://esporte.uol.com.br/copa/2006/reportagens/kuranyi.jhtm. Retrieved on 5 October 2007.
[edit] External links
- The Kevin Kurányi Official Website (German) (English) (Portuguese)
- Career stats at fussballdaten.de (German)
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