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Kevin Kurányi
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Full name	Kevin Dennis Kurányi
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Schalke
Number	22
	‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of September 6 2008

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Kevin Dennis Kurányi (born March 2, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro) is a German football player who currently plays for the German Bundesliga team Schalke 04. He is a striker who possesses aerial ability and finishing skills.

He was born 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].

Career

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 2002-2003 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 2009-2010. At Gelsenkirchen, he finished top goalscorer for the team from 2005-08, while the team achieved three consecutive UEFA Champions League berths.

On April 15, 2008, Kuranyi scored 4 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 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 the tournament's finals and at the 2005 Confederations Cup but, because of his underachievements in the season of 2005/2006, was not nominated for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

In 2006-2007 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 February 7, 2007, in a friendly in Düsseldorf. In Germany's Euro 2008 qualifying match against the Czech Republic on March 24, 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 October 11, 2008 Kurányi wasn't nominated für the bench against Russia. He sat on the grandstand but in the half-time Kurányi left the stadium and didn't return to the German team quarter. After this incident the German coach Joachim Löw said that he will never again nominate Kevin Kurányi for the national team^[3].

International goals

Scores and results table. Germany's goal tally first:

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	October 11, 2003	AOL Arena, Hamburg, Germany	Iceland	3-0	3-0	UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying
2.	March 31, 2004	RheinEnergieStadion, Cologne, Germany	Belgium	1-0	3-0	Friendly
3.	June 2, 2004	St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland	Switzerland	1-0	2-0	Friendly
4.	June 2, 2004	St. Jakob-Park, Basel, Switzerland	Switzerland	2-0	2-0	Friendly
5.	August 18, 2004	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Austria	1-0	3-1	Friendly
6.	August 18, 2004	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Austria	2-1	3-1	Friendly
7.	August 18, 2004	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria	Austria	3-1	3-1	Friendly
8.	September 8, 2004	Olympic Stadium, Berlin, Germany	Brazil	1-1	1-1	Friendly
9.	November 17, 2004	Zentralstadion, Leipzig, Germany	Cameroon	1-0	3-0	Friendly
10.	December 21, 2004	Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Thailand	1-0	5-1	Friendly
11.	December 21, 2004	Rajamangala Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Thailand	2-0	5-1	Friendly
12.	February 9, 2005	LTU Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany	Argentina	2-1	2-2	Friendly
13.	June 15, 2005	Waldstadion, Frankfurt, Germany	Australia	1-0	4-3	FIFA Confederations Cup 2005
14.	June 21, 2005	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany	Argentina	1-0	2-2	FIFA Confederations Cup 2005
15.	February 7, 2007	LTU Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany	Switzerland	1-0	3-1	Friendly
16.	March 24, 2007	Stadion Eden, Prague, Czech Republic	Czech Republic	1-0	2-1	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
17.	March 24, 2007	Stadion Eden, Prague, Czech Republic	Czech Republic	2-0	2-1	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
18.	June 2, 2007	Frankenstadion, Nuremberg, Germany	San Marino	1-0	6-0	UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying
19.	August 22, 2007	Wembley Stadium, London, England	England	1-1	2-1	Friendly

Personal

He has German, Panamanian and Brazilian citizenship. Kuranyi's favorite club is CR Flamengo.^[4] He can speak English, Portuguese, German, and some Spanish and Hungarian.

His wife Viktorija Peličić is Croatian. On September 27, 2005 Kuranyi and his wife had their first child, a son named Karlo. They married on April 28, 2007 in Stuttgart. Their second child, a daughter named Vivien Carmen, was born on January 6, 2008.

Statistics

Club

(as of September 29, 2008)

**All-Time Club Performance**
Club	Season	Domestic League		Domestic Cup		European Competition		Total
Club	Season	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals	App	Goals
Schalke	08-09	7	4	2	1	3	0	12	5
	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		103	44	12	5	25	6	140	56
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		202	84	22	11	46	16	270	112

International

**All-Time International Performance**
National Team	Year	Friendlies		International Competition		Total
National Team	Year	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

References

^ "Kevin Kurányi". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2008-06-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessdaymonth=, |month=, |accessyear=, |accessmonthday=, and |coauthors= (help)
^ "Kevin Kurányi". BBC Sport. 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2008-06-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessdaymonth=, |month=, |accessyear=, |accessmonthday=, and |coauthors= (help)
^ "Löw won't nominate Kurányi again". dfb.de (in German). 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-10-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
^ "Flamenguista Kevin Kuranyi sonha marcar gol e derrotar o Brasil na final da Copa" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-10-05.

External links

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[1] "Kevin Kurányi". Sky Sports. Retrieved 2008-06-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessdaymonth=, |month=, |accessyear=, |accessmonthday=, and |coauthors= (help)

[2] "Kevin Kurányi". BBC Sport. 2004-05-25. Retrieved 2008-06-09. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameters: |accessdaymonth=, |month=, |accessyear=, |accessmonthday=, and |coauthors= (help)

[3] "Löw won't nominate Kurányi again". dfb.de (in German). 2008-10-12. Retrieved 2008-10-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)

[4] "Flamenguista Kevin Kuranyi sonha marcar gol e derrotar o Brasil na final da Copa" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2007-10-05.

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 In 2006-2007 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 national football team|Switzerland]] on [[February 7]], [[2007]], in a friendly in [[Düsseldorf]]. In Germany's [[UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying|Euro 2008 qualifying]] match against the [[Czech Republic national football team|Czech Republic]] on [[March 24]], he scored both goals in the 2-1 victory.  He was brought on during the second half of the [[Euro 2008]] final against [[Spanish national football team|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 Oktober 11, 2008 Kurányi wasn't nominated für the bench against [[Russia national football team|Russia]]. He sat on the grandstand but in the half-time Kurányi left the stadium and didn't return to the German team quarter. After this incident the German coach [[Joachim Löw]] said that he will never again nominate Kevin Kurányi for the national team<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500014&no_cache=1&tx_dfbnews_pi1&#x5B;showUid&#x5D;=16019 | title = Löw won't nominate Kurányi again | date = [[2008-10-12]] | accessdate = 2008-10-12 | work = dfb.de | language= German}}</ref>.
+On October 11, 2008 Kurányi wasn't nominated für the bench against [[Russia national football team|Russia]]. He sat on the grandstand but in the half-time Kurányi left the stadium and didn't return to the German team quarter. After this incident the German coach [[Joachim Löw]] said that he will never again nominate Kevin Kurányi for the national team<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.dfb.de/index.php?id=500014&no_cache=1&tx_dfbnews_pi1&#x5B;showUid&#x5D;=16019 | title = Löw won't nominate Kurányi again | date = [[2008-10-12]] | accessdate = 2008-10-12 | work = dfb.de | language= German}}</ref>.
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