http://www.kevin-kuranyi.de/ Early life He was born in Brazil to a German-Hungarian 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 Club career Kuranyi began playing football in 1988... More

http://www.kevin-kuranyi.de/ Early life He was born in Brazil to a German-Hungarian 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 Club career Kuranyi 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. Kuranyi 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 200203 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" ("wild young ones"), comprising Timo Hildebrand, Andreas Hinkel, Alexander Hleb, Philipp Lahm and Kuranyi, delighted Stuttgart fans with superb attacking football. He left Stuttgart during the 2005 summer transfer window to join Schalke, signing to 200910. At Gelsenkirchen, he finished top goalscorer for the team from 200508, 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. 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 defeat of Iceland. He played for his adopted country at the tournament's finals and at the 2005 Confederations Cup but, because of his poor form in the 200506 season, was not selected for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. In 200607, he regained his touch and after an absence of 15 months, he was recalled to 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 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 the stands with 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 Im going home." Less

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