István Sofron

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István Sofron
Date of birth February 24, 1988
place of birth Miercurea Ciuc , Romania
size 185 cm
Weight 81 kg
position striker
number # 20
Shot hand Left
Career stations
2006-2007 Fehérvári Titánok
2007-2013 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
2013-2016 Krefeld penguins
2016 Klagenfurt AC
2016-2017 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár
2017 Wichita Thunder
2017-2018 EC VSV
2018-2019 Fehérvár AV19
since 2019 MAC Budapest

István Sofron ( Hungarian Sofron István ; born February 24, 1988 in Miercurea Ciuc , Romania ) is a Hungarian ice hockey player who has been under contract with MAC Budapest in the Slovakian Extraliga since May 2019 .

Career

István Sofron, who was born as a member of the Hungarian-speaking Szekler minority in Romania, began his career as an ice hockey player with Fehérvári Titánok , for whom he made his debut in the Hungarian ice hockey league in the 2006/07 season . Then the attacker switched to their league rival Alba Volán Székesfehérvár , for whom he was on the ice in the Hungarian ice hockey league and in the Austrian ice hockey league . In September 2010 he was elected EBEL YoungStar of the Month and came in fifth in the 2010/11 season. In 2012 he was the top scorer in the Austrian Ice Hockey League. With Alba Volán he was Hungarian champion in 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 . In the summer of 2013, he moved to the Krefeld Penguins in the German Ice Hockey League , where he was the player with the most penalty minutes (110) in the entire league in the 2014/15 season .

In mid-January 2016, the Klagenfurt AC from the Austrian Ice Hockey League announced that István Sofron would be added to its squad with immediate effect. Already for the following season he left the Carinthians again and joined his former club from Székesfehérvár, for which he also played in the Austrian league. In the summer of 2017 he moved to North America and from then on played for Wichita Thunder from the ECHL , which he left again at the end of December to join Villacher SV from the Austrian league.

International

In contrast to other Szeklers who play for Romania, their country of birth, Sofron has competed internationally for Hungary since he was a junior. With the Hungarian junior team , he took part in Division I of the U20 World Cup in 2008 .

In the senior division, he was in his country's squad at the World Championships in Division I in 2010 , 2011 , when he was also voted the best striker of the tournament as the top scorer in 2012 , 2013 , 2014 and 2015 . At the 2016 World Cup , he played in the top division for the first time. He also took part in the qualifying tournaments for the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in 2010 for Hungary in 2008/09, in the qualifying tournament for the Winter Games in Sochi in 2014 in 2013 and in the qualifying tournament for the Winter Games in Pyeongchang in 2018 in 2016 .

Achievements and Awards

International

Career statistics

Regular season Play-offs
season team league Sp T V Pt SM Sp T V Pt SM
2007/08 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 38 2 3 5 34 - - - - -
2008/09 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 53 5 9 14th 62 - - - - -
2009/10 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 53 11 14th 25th 58 5 0 1 1 2
2010/11 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 50 23 19th 42 84 - - - - -
2011/12 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 50 31 21st 52 76 6th 3 4th 7th 8th
2012/13 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 53 19th 24 43 49 - - - - -
2013/14 Krefeld penguins DEL 48 8th 13 21st 57 5 2 1 3 6th
2014/15 Krefeld penguins DEL 47 10 13 23 110 2 0 1 1 8th
2015/16 Krefeld penguins DEL 27 2 5 7th 20th - - - - -
2015/16 Klagenfurt AC ÖEHL 11 1 1 2 10 5 0 2 2 2
2016/17 Alba Volán Székesfehérvár ÖEHL 49 15th 15th 30th 85 - - - - -
ÖEHL overall 357 107 106 213 458 16 3 7th 10 12
DEL total 122 20th 31 51 187 7th 2 2 4th 14th

( Legend for player statistics: Sp or GP = games played; T or G = goals scored; V or A = assists scored ; Pkt or Pts = scorer points scored ; SM or PIM = penalty minutes received ; +/− = plus / minus balance; PP = overpaid goals scored ; SH = underpaid goals scored ; GW = winning goals scored; 1  play-downs / relegation )

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personal data
SURNAME Sofron, István
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sofron, Istvan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian ice hockey player
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Miercurea Ciuc , Romania