Szilárd Németh
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 8 August 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Komárno, Czechoslovakia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1984–1992 | KFC Komárno | ||
| 1992–1994 | Slovan Bratislava | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–1997 | Slovan Bratislava | 61 | (25) |
| 1997 | 1. FC Košice | ||
| 1997–1998 | Sparta Prague | 8 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | 1. FC Košice | 37 | (20) |
| 1999–2001 | Inter Bratislava | 58 | (40) |
| 2001–2006 | Middlesbrough | 117 | (23) |
| 2006 | Strasbourg | 9 | (0) |
| 2006–2010 | Alemannia Aachen | 77 | (17) |
| Total | 357 | (130) | |
| International career | |||
| 1996–2006 | Slovakia[1] | 58 | (22) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2014–2020 | Slovan Bratislava (juniors) | ||
| 2020–2021 | Komárno | ||
| 2021–2022 | Rohožník | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Szilárd Németh (Slovak pronunciation: [ˈsilaːrt ˈneːmet]; Hungarian: [ˈsilaːrd ˈneːmɛt]; born 8 August 1977), also known mononymously as Szilárd, is a Slovak former professional footballer who played as a striker.
After playing for clubs in Slovakia and the Czech Republic, he spent four and a half seasons at Middlesbrough of the Premier League from 2001 to 2006. After a brief stint at France's RC Strasbourg, he played for Alemannia Aachen in Germany until his retirement in 2010.
Németh was at that time the highest scorer in the history of the Slovakia national team, with 22 goals in 58 matches from 1997 to 2006.
Club career
[edit]Early career
[edit]Németh started his career with Slovan Bratislava before moving to eastern Slovakia to join 1. FC Košice. At both clubs he played well, he moved to giants of the region, Czech team Sparta Prague for record fee 35 million CZK (€1.3 million) [2]
From here he moved back to Slovakia with one of the top teams in the country, Inter Bratislava. He won consecutive Slovak Super Liga titles in 1999–2000 and 2000–01, finishing as top-scorer in both.
Middlesbrough
[edit]Amid rumoured interest from Inter Milan, he eventually signed for English side Middlesbrough on 12 April 2001 for £2.1 million on a five-year contract. Earlier that season, he had a trial at their local rivals Sunderland.[3]
Németh scored 23 goals in 117 Premier League appearances for the club.[4] He became known as the Lizard King of Teesside and Slovakian Express[5] for scoring regularly off the bench. Németh was part of Middlesbrough's 2004 League Cup-winning team, despite not making the squad for the final.[6] He also featured as they contested the UEFA Cup in the next two seasons. During his time in the Premier League, he scored in wins over Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur.
The 2005–06 season saw Németh turn down numerous transfer offers, including UEFA Cup winners CSKA Moscow.[citation needed] He faced competition up-front that season from Yakubu, Mark Viduka, Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink and Massimo Maccarone, leading to his exit in January.
Later career
[edit]On 25 January 2006, Németh was sold to French club RC Strasbourg for a 'nominal fee'.[7] Their season ended with relegation from Ligue 1, and he was released.
On 28 August 2006, he agreed to join the German Bundesliga club Alemannia Aachen in a two-year deal.[8] Németh spent most of his first season on the sidelines because of a pulmonary embolism.[9] On 19 May 2008, he signed a contract extension with Aachen until the end of the 2009–10 season. In the winter of 2010–11, he opted to retire from football due to health problems.[10]
International career
[edit]Németh scored 22 times in 58 matches for Slovakia between 1997 and 2006. His debut was a 4–0 friendly win against Belarus at the Štadión pod Zoborom in Nitra on 2 February 1997, replacing Róbert Semeník for the final 26 minutes. He scored his first goal on his third cap on 5 February 1997, in a 2–2 draw away against Costa Rica. Németh's last goal came in his 55th international on 1 March 2006, in an away friendly win over France. His last game was on 6 September 2006, in qualification for Euro 2008, a 3–0 home defeat to the Czech Republic.[1] He was the country's highest-scorer until Róbert Vittek broke the record, and is their seventh most-capped player.
Personal life
[edit]Németh belongs to the Hungarian minority in Slovakia.[11][12]
Career statistics
[edit]- Scores and results list Slovakia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Németh goal.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 February 1997 | Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica |  Costa Rica |
1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 2 | 7 February 1998 | Tsirion Stadium, Limassol, Cyprus |  Iceland |
1–0 | 2–1 | 1998 Cyprus International Football Tournament |
| 3 | 8 September 1999 | Mestský štadión, Dubnica, Slovakia |  Liechtenstein |
1–0 | 2–0 | UEFA Euro 2000 qualifying |
| 4 | 16 August 2000 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava, Slovakia |  Croatia |
1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 5 | 7 October 2000 | Stadionul Republican, Chişinău, Moldova |  Moldova |
1–0 | 1–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 6 | 15 November 2000 | Diagoras Stadium, Rhodes, Greece |  Greece |
1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 7 | 27 February 2001 | Stade 5 Juillet 1962, Algiers, Algeria |  Algeria |
1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 8 | 28 March 2001 | Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava, Slovakia |  Azerbaijan |
1–0 | 3–1 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 9 | 2–1 | |||||
| 10 | 5 September 2001 | Štadión na Sihoti, Trenčín, Slovakia | Moldova |
2–1 | 4–2 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 11 | 21 August 2002 | Andrův stadion, Olomouc, Czech Republic |  Czech Republic |
1–0 | 1–4 | Friendly |
| 12 | 12 October 2002 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava, Slovakia |  England |
1–0 | 1–2 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 13 | 2 April 2003 | Štadión Antona Malatinského, Trnava, Slovakia | Liechtenstein |
2–0 | 4–0 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 14 | 3–0 | |||||
| 15 | 30 April 2003 | Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina, Slovakia | Greece |
1–1 | 2–2 | Friendly |
| 16 | 2–2 | |||||
| 17 | 10 September 2003 | Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina, Slovakia |  North Macedonia |
1–0 | 1–1 | UEFA Euro 2004 qualifying |
| 18 | 8 September 2004 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava, Slovakia | Liechtenstein |
5–0 | 7–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 19 | 9 October 2004 | Tehelné pole, Bratislava, Slovakia |  Latvia |
1–1 | 4–1 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 20 | 8 June 2005 | Stade Josy Barthel, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg |  Luxembourg |
1–0 | 4–0 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 21 | 12 November 2005 | Vicente Calderón Stadium, Madrid, Spain |  Spain |
1–2 | 1–5 | 2006 FIFA World Cup European Qualification Playoffs |
| 22 | 1 March 2006 | Stade de France, Paris, France |  France |
1–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
Honours
[edit]Slovan Bratislava
Inter Bratislava
Middlesbrough
Individual
- Slovak Footballer of the Year: 2000
- Slovak Super Liga top scorer: 1999–2000, 2000–01
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Szilárd Németh". European Football.
- ^ "Pán futbalista, ktorý pôsobil aj v Anglicku, vo Francúzsku a v Nemecku | Madari.sk".
- ^ "Boro net Nemeth". BBC News. 12 April 2001.
- ^ "Szilard Nemeth Profile, News & Stats | Premier League".
- ^ ""No Stopping the Slovakian Express against Cottagers; He Didn't Score as Many Goals as He Should've Done but Nemeth Was a Thorn in Fulham's Side" - Evening Gazette (Middlesbrough, England), October 14, 2015". Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 11 October 2016.
- ^ "Boro lift Carling Cup". BBC Sport. 29 February 2004.
- ^ "Striker Nemeth leaves Middlesbrough for Strasbourg". ESPN. 25 January 2006. Archived from the original on 21 September 2013.
- ^ "Nemeth to join Alemannia Aachen". Soccerway. 28 August 2006.
- ^ "Nemeth out of hospital". Sky Sports. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ "Szilárd Németh: Zdravie mi už profesionálny futbal nedovolí" (in Slovak). SME. 28 February 2011. Retrieved 21 November 2014.
- ^ "Népszámlálás 2011 – Németh Szilárd" (in Hungarian). nepszamlalas2011.sk. Archived from the original on 2 October 2011. Retrieved 13 October 2011.
For example about me, many knew both in England and Germany that I came from Slovakia, but I'm ethnic Hungarian. (Rólam például Angliában és Németországban is nagyon sokan tudták, hogy Szlovákiából jöttem, de magyar nemzetiségű vagyok.)
- ^ Nagy, Myrtil (2012). "Maďari". In Myrtil Nagy (ed.). Naše národnostné menšiny. Šamorín: Fórum inštitút pre výskum menšín. p. 9. ISBN 978-80-89249-57-2.
External links
[edit]- Szilárd Németh at Soccerbase
- Living people
- 1977 births
- Sportspeople from Komárno
- Footballers from the Nitra Region
- Hungarians in Slovakia
- Men's association football forwards
- Slovak men's footballers
- ŠK Slovan Bratislava players
- FC VSS Košice players
- Czech First League players
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- FK Inter Bratislava players
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- RC Strasbourg Alsace players
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- Ligue 1 players
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- Slovakia men's international footballers
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- Slovak expatriate sportspeople in Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in the Czech Republic
- Expatriate men's footballers in England
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
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