Kevin Kurányi

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Kevin Kurányi

Full name	Kevin Dennis Kurányi
Date of birth	March 2, 1982 (age 25)
Place of birth	Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Nickname	Kev
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Schalke
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2001-2005 2005-	VfB Stuttgart FC Schalke 04	97 (41) 56 (21)
National team²
2003-	Germany	37 (17)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of march 17 2007. ² National team caps and goals correct as of march 24 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Kevin Dennis Kurányi (born March 2, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro) is a German football (soccer) player, who currently plays for the Bundesliga team Schalke 04.

He was born to a German-Hungarian father and a Panamanian mother. He opted to play for the German national football team as he was playing for VfB Stuttgart at the time. His birthplace and ancestry would also have enabled him to play for Brazil, Panama, or Hungary.

1 Player Profile
2 Note on name
3 Statistics
- 3.1 Club
- 3.2 International
4 Trivia
5 External links

[edit] Player Profile

Kuranyi started his career in 1988, for Petrópolis-based Serrano FC in Brazil, when he was all of 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 Kuranyi went to Germany, enlisting at VfB Stuttgart's B youth team. After playing a few games in the German U21 national team, he was considered for VfB's professional team, and then, in 2001, he signed his first professional contract.

After 33 matches (10 goals) for the amateur team he played 99 matches for VfB Stuttgart's professional team, to score 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 VfB Stuttgart finished second in the league. In this particular season, VfB and its junge wilde ("young crazies“) – Timo Hildebrand, Andreas Hinkel, Alexander Hleb, Philipp Lahm and Kevin Kuranyi – delighted the fans in Germany with superb attacking football.

He left his former club VfB Stuttgart during the transfer window in summer 2005 to join Schalke 04. His current contract runs till 2010.

For the German national football team Kevin has played 37 times, scoring 17 goals (as of March 24, 2006). Kuranyi made his debut for Germany during the 2004 Eurocup qualifications 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 Euro 2004, at the Confederations Cup 2005 but, surprisingly, was not nominated for the World Cup in Germany (2006).

In the season 2006/2007 he regained his strinking abilities. After an absence of 15 months he was therefore recall to play for the national team, where he initially scored during Germany's 3-1 win against Switzerland on February 7, 2007. In Germany's Euro 2008 qualifying match against the Czech Republic on March 24, he scored both goals in the 2-1 victory.

He has German, Panamanian and Brazilian citizenship. Kuranyi's favorite club is CR Flamengo.^[1]

On September, 27, 2005 Kuranyi and his partner, Viktorija Pelicic, had their first child, a son named Karlo.

[edit] Note on name

Kurányi is the correct spelling of the Hungarian surname (pronounced in Hungarian 'KUR-ahn-ye'), although German papers often simply write Kuranyi[‘kura:ɲi].

[edit] Statistics

[edit] Club

**All-Time Club Performance**
Club	Season	Domestic League		Domestic Cup		European Competition		Total
Club	Season	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
Schalke 04	06-07	18	8			2	0	20	8
Schalke 04	05-06	30	10			5	1	35	11
Total		48	26			7	1	55	27
VfB Stuttgart	04-05	29	13			5	3	34	16
	03-04	33	11			8	3	41	14
	02-03	30	16			8	4	38	20
	01-02	5	1			0	0	5	1
Total		145	41			21	10	118	51
Career Totals		127	67			26	11	153	62

[edit] International

**All-Time International Performance**
National Team	Year	Frendlies		International Competition		Total
National Team	Year	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
2007	1	1					1	1
Germany	2006
	2005
	2004
	2003
Career Totals

FC Schalke 04 - Current Squad
3 Kobiashvili \| 5 Bordon \| 6 Hamit Altıntop \| 7 Varela \| 8 Ernst \| 9 Larsen \| 10 Lincoln \| 11 Løvenkrands \| 14 Asamoah \| 16 Rodríguez \| 17 Özil \| 18 Rafinha \| 19 Halil Altıntop \| 20 Krstajić \| 22 Kurányi \| 24 Pander \| 25 Bajramović \| 26 Bungert \| 27 Hoogland \| 29 Neuer \| 31 Boenisch \| 33 Laumann