Gábor Király

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Gábor Király
Gabor Kiraly 1860 2010 2.JPG
in the jersey of TSV 1860 Munich (2011)
Personnel
birthday April 1, 1976
place of birth Szombathely ,  Hungary
size 190 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1997 Haladás Szombathely 96 (0)
1997-2004 Hertha BSC 198 (0)
2004-2007 Crystal Palace 114 (0)
2006 →  West Ham United  (Loan) 0 (0)
2006-2007 →  Aston Villa  (loan) 5 (0)
2007-2009 Burnley FC 27 (0)
2009 →  Bayer 04 Leverkusen  (loan) 0 (0)
2009-2014 TSV 1860 Munich 168 (0)
2014-2015 Fulham FC 4 (0)
2015-2019 Haladás Szombathely 107 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Hungary U19 7 (0)
1996-1997 Hungary U21 10 (0)
1998-2016 Hungary 107 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of career

Gábor Király [ ˈɡaːbor ˈkiraːj ] (born April 1, 1976 in Szombathely ) is a former Hungarian football goalkeeper . He was most recently under contract with Haladás Szombathely and played 107 international matches for Hungary's senior team . This makes him their record national player. Király is the oldest player to date to have actively participated in a European Championship finals.

Career

societies

Haladás Szombathely

Gábor Király played from 1993 for Haladás Szombathely in the NB I. In his first professional year he experienced his first descent. However, after a season in the NL II. The immediate rise again. Király also guarded the goal of the team from his hometown in the following two seasons in the NL I. By 1997 he was in goal for Haladás Szombathely 96 times.

Hertha BSC

For the 1997/98 season Király joined the German Bundesliga club Hertha BSC . After some uncertainty in the first few games, he became the first goalkeeper. He also became known for his gray baggy trousers, which supplier Nike later added to the merchandising range. In the 1998/99 season he was statistically the best goalkeeper in the Bundesliga: he conceded the fewest goals and thwarted the most great chances. Thus, he had a share in the successful performance of the Berliners (third place). In the Bundesliga he guarded the Herthan goal 198 times, he was used nine times in the league cup and 13 times in the DFB Cup . He was used 20 times in the UEFA Cup and in the 1999/2000 season he played twelve Champions League games for Hertha - including qualification .

Crystal Palace

After the winter break of the 2003/04 season he was replaced by substitute goalkeeper Christian Fiedler . He was diagnosed with severe depression and left the club for the then English first division club Crystal Palace from London . Then he managed to overcome the depression with the support of the Hungarian goalkeeper Gyula Grosics . In the 2004/05 season he played a total of 32 Premier League games for Crystal Palace and was considered one of the best goalkeepers in the league, but could not prevent the London club from relegating.

From November 23 to December 11, 2006, he was loaned to West Ham United for three games , but he only sat on the bench in all three games and returned to Crystal Palace without any use. Two days later, he was loaned out to Aston Villa in the Premier League for a month as both goalkeepers were eliminated due to injury. He made his debut for the club from Birmingham on December 16, 2006 against Bolton Wanderers at home in Villa Park and later played four Premiership games and one FA Cup game for the club. He played his last game for Aston Villa when he lost 2-1 to Manchester United in the FA Cup on January 7, 2007 and was unlucky there due to a mistake in stoppage time. On January 12, 2007 he returned to Crystal Palace and was there again a goalkeeper. Overall, Király was in 114 league games in the gate of the Londoners.

Burnley FC

In the summer of 2007, Király moved to Burnley FC , who also played in the Football League Championship . In the 2007/08 season he was used there 27 times. In the first half of the following season he was not used; for the second half of the season he was loaned to Bundesliga club Bayer 04 Leverkusen until the end of the season. There he was a substitute goalkeeper behind René Adler Vice-DFB Cup winner. So he was not used in professional football in the 2008/09 season.

TSV 1860 Munich

For the 2009/10 season Király moved to the German second division club TSV 1860 Munich , where he signed a two-year contract with an option for another year. Coach Ewald Lienen immediately entrusted him with the position of regular goalkeeper, Philipp Tschauner and Michael Hofmann , who had regularly alternated in goal in the previous seasons, were left behind. With the exception of the last league game, Király guarded the TSV goal in all competitive games in his first year in Munich. In his second year in Munich he also played 33 league games, only in the last home game Tschauner guarded the goal.

In the 2011/12 season Király was set as a regular goalkeeper in front of Timo Ochs , who had been signed as a replacement for Tschauner. After the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt on November 26, 2011, the kicker distinguished him as the man of the 16th match day after he had thwarted several great chances for the Frankfurters in the game. On matchday 19, the last before the winter break, Király had to take a break after tearing a hamstring during training. After the winter break, he played all games except for one game in which young goalkeeper Vitus Eicher made his first appearance.

Also in the 2012/13 season Király was a regular goalkeeper and was used in all league games. On the first and the fifth day of play, Király was voted man of the day by the kicker . In December 2013, his contract term was prematurely extended to 2015 with a performance-related option for a further year.

For the 2014/15 season , TSV 1860 signed Stefan Ortega Moreno, a fourth goalkeeper for the first team. Király guarded the goal in the first two games, but was subsequently replaced by Ortega after he was temporarily excluded from the first team's play and training operations due to fights against defender Gary Kagelmacher in the defeat against RB Leipzig .

Király played 168 league games for TSV 1860 Munich and was used ten times in the German cup competition.

Fulham FC

At the end of August 2014, Király left Munich and joined Fulham FC for one season . He played his first game for Fulham on September 13, 2014 against Reading FC .

Haladás Szombathely

After a year he returned to Hungary and signed with his first professional club, Haladás Szombathely. In the 2018/19 season he rose with the team, which he led in most of his missions as captain, from bottom of the table, they had been first class for ten years.

End of career

After 26 years as a professional, 43-year-old Király announced the end of his active career at the end of May 2019.

National team

Király has already appeared in the Hungarian U-19 national team seven times, and ten times for the U-21s. In the senior national team he played 70 games until 2006. After the 1: 2 defeat on October 11, 2006 in Valletta against Malta , he was no longer appointed to the national team. On August 12, 2009 he was back in the squad of the national team, but was not used in the 1-0 defeat against Romania . On November 14, 2009, he was used in the game against Belgium for the 71st time in the national team after three years. He then returned to the Hungarian goal on a regular basis and played his 100th international match for Hungary on November 12, 2015 in the first leg of the playoffs for the 2016 European Championship against Norway . Hungary won this game 1-0 and the second leg 2-1, which means that the now 39-year-old Király and the team qualified for the European Championship finals in France. With his 101st international appearance, he drew level with József Bozsik as the record national player of Hungary. On May 20, 2016, he became the sole record holder with his 102nd international match. Since June 14, 2016, at 40 years and 74 days, he has been the oldest player to play at a European Championship . Lothar Matthäus previously held this record .

At the European Championships in France in 2016 , he was accepted as a regular goalkeeper in Hungary's squad and was in goal in the first game against Austria . He replaced Lothar Matthäus as the oldest player in a European Championship finals. In the second game against Iceland he could not hold a ball in the 38th minute and in the subsequent attempt to defend his teammate Tamás Kádár an Icelander fell, whereupon the referee decided on a penalty. The Icelander Gylfi Sigurðsson was able to transform this. In the final minutes, however, the Hungarians equalized with an own goal by Icelandic Birkir Már Sævarsson . Due to the 3: 3 draw in the third preliminary round match against Portugal , Király reached the round of 16 with the Hungarians as group winners , which, however, was lost 4-0 against Belgium . On the day of the elimination he was 40 years and 86 days old and thus set the new value for the oldest EM player. On August 3, 2016, he announced his resignation from the Hungarian national team.

Achievements and titles

  • Golden Ball in Hungary : 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2015
  • Hungary's Footballer of the Year : 1998, 2015, 2016
  • In 2010, Király was voted Hungary's Goalkeeper of the Past Decade and ranked 3rd in the Player of the Decade election.
  • In 2001 and 2002 he won the DFB League Cup with Hertha BSC .
  • Elected as a goalkeeper in Hertha BSC's eleven of the century by fans in 2003
  • Record Hungarian national player (108 caps)

Private

Király is married and has two children. He is also an honorary citizen of the city of Szombathely.

Trivia

Király in training (2009)

Király always wore wide, often referred to as "baggy" gray jogging pants in games and training. Because of the unusual garment and his long career, he was often nicknamed in the media such as B. "the eternal sweatpants". A typical model of these trousers was on offer in the TSV 1860 Munich fan shop as "Trousers Kiraly".

Web links

Commons : Gábor Király  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "I had a depression" on morgenpost.de , accessed on September 21, 2009
  2. ↑ Man of the day 2012/13, matchday 1 on kicker.de
  3. ↑ Man of the day 2012/13, matchday 5 on kicker.de
  4. ↑ Kiraly stays in the box . Kicker online . December 13, 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  5. ^ Matthias Arnhold: Gábor Ferenc Király - Matches and Goals in Bundesliga . RSSSF.com . October 31, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  6. ↑ Fulham Sign Kiraly fulhamfc.co.uk, accessed September 16, 2014
  7. ↑ Ex-Bundesliga goalkeeper Király announces the end of his career , transfermarkt.de, accessed on May 22, 2019
  8. ^ Roberto Mamrud: Gábor Király - Century of International Appearances . RSSSF.com . October 31, 2019. Retrieved November 1, 2019.
  9. ↑ Kiraly celebrates history - Hungary is hot for the first EM after 43 years. In: n-tv.de , November 13, 2015, accessed on November 13, 2015.
  10. ↑ mlsz.hu: "Nem tudtuk feltörni az elefántok masszív védelmét"
  11. ↑ fifa.com: "- a triumph, a record and a pair of pants!"
  12. ↑ kicker.de: "Hungary saves one point late - Iceland celebrates Sigurdsson - until the neck blow follows"
  13. ↑ Lion Kiraly: Goalkeeper of the Decade. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de , October 6, 2010, accessed on July 6, 2011.
  14. ↑ Michael Jahn: We're just not going home . Ed .: Verlag Die Werkstatt - Verlag Die Werkstatt. Verlag Die Werkstatt, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-89533-535-5 , p. 445 .
  15. ↑ Haladás: Király Gábor díszpolgár lett Szombathelyen. Retrieved June 9, 2017 (Hungarian).
personal data
SURNAME Király, Gábor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Szombathely , Hungary