Kevin Kurányi
Kurányi in 2016
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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 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1988–1993 | Serrano | ||
| 1993–1994 | Las Promesas Panama | ||
| 1994–1996 | Serrano | ||
| 1996–1997 | Las Promesas Panama | ||
| 1997–2001 | VfB Stuttgart | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2001–2003 | VfB Stuttgart II | 33 | (10) |
| 2001–2005 | VfB Stuttgart | 99 | (40) |
| 2005–2010 | Schalke 04 | 162 | (71) |
| 2010–2015 | Dynamo Moscow | 123 | (50) |
| 2015–2016 | 1899 Hoffenheim | 14 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 2002–2003 | Germany U21 | 6 | (2) |
| 2002 | Germany Team 2006 | 1 | (1) |
| 2003–2008 | Germany | 52 | (19) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 May 2016. |
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Kevin Dennis Kurányi (German pronunciation: [ˈkɛvɪn kuˈʁaːniː], Hungarian: [ˈkɛvin ˈkuraːɲi]; born 2 March 1982) is a German footballer. He plays as a striker and possesses great aerial ability and finishing skills. From 2003 to 2008, Kurányi was part of the German national team, for which he scored 19 goals in 52 games.
He was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil to a German father of Hungarian descent and a Panamanian mother. He eventually opted to play for the German national football team after being also qualified to play for Brazil or Panama.
Kurányi began playing football 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 one year before going back to Serrano FC. Kurányi returned to Las Promesas in 1996 for a further 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 signed his first professional contract for VfB in 2001.
Following on from his 33 matches and 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, scoring 10 goals. In the 2002–03 season of the Bundesliga, he was the top German goal-scorer and one of the main reasons for Stuttgart's second-place finish in the league. That year, VfB and its "Junge Wilde" ("young wild ones"), comprising Timo Hildebrand, Andreas Hinkel, Alexander Hleb, Philipp Lahm, Imre Szabics and Kurányi, delighted Stuttgart fans with superb attacking football.
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