Gábor Gyepes

Gábor Gyepes in the jersey of Cardiff City (2010)

Gábor Gyepes ( born June 26, 1981 in Budapest) is a Hungarian football player. The 1.91 meter measured robust central defender and current national team of his country stood for a torn ACL in 2006, before the off in his career, celebrated after 18 months in January 2008 his "comeback".

Club career

Gyepes learned to play football from the age of eight years at the local club Ferencvaros Budapest and was used on nearly all potential outfield positions. The later defender came here in his last year in the youth team mostly on the offensive for the course and achieved in the last 16 games 20 goals alone. In 1999, the talented in tennis Gyepes debuted in the professional team of the " FTC " and from the 2000/01 season, he established himself more and more in the root formation. Between 2001 and 2004 he won two Hungarian championships, two national cup trophies and even the Hungarian Super Cup, which forced him to a serious knee injury to a one-year break in the season 2003/ 04. In addition, he gained through his participation in the qualification for the Champions League first experience in European club football and after there defeat against Sparta Prague he dueled still in the UEFA Cup with FC Millwall and in the group stage with Feyenoord Rotterdam, FC Schalke 04, FC Basel and Heart of Midlothian.

In July 2005 Gyepes denied a one-week trial with English second division club Wolverhampton Wanderers and joined the club initially for six months from loan to. In the 5-1 win against Chester City, he celebrated on 23 August 2005 in the League Cup since his debut and he henceforth in central defense with Joleon Lescott made ​​a good duo, him coach Glenn Hoddle took in December 2005 for 400,000 pounds for 2 ½ years finally under contract. The deal itself was to have made ​​the beginning of 2007 once again became a public issue, as the national soccer association had accused FA Gyepes ' Player's agent Sam Stapleton wrong bank account information - Stapleton had already known this in October 2006 guilty. In sporting terms Gyepes suffered a severe setback when he tore the cruciate ligament on March 25, 2006 in the 1-3 defeat against Sheffield Wednesday. He underwent an operation and there was a not unlikely prospect that he would never play professional football. With the exception of a game for the reserve team in February 2007, he paused until well into into 2007 and the contract was terminated with the " Wolves " in April 2007 - he set the rehabilitation program in his native Hungary continued.

After the restoration of fitness Gyepes returned to England, where he first his luck with the Queens Park Rangers tried those in which his compatriot Ákos Buzsáky played for the turn also worked Gyepes ' players' agents. Since he first offered the club but only one perspective on the reserve team, instead he signed in January 2008 at third division Northampton Town a running until the end of the 2007/ 08 contract. There he again worked with Stuart Gray, whom he had known as assistant coach from his time in Wolverhampton. Gyepes denied a total of 15 league appearances for the " Cobblers " and in April 2008 he agreed with the club's management over a contract extension until the end of season 2008 /09. The contract included a release clause for a change, which could be activated according to media reports at a fee in the amount of about 200,000 pounds ..

On 19 August 2008 he moved to Cardiff City in the Football League Championship, where he was primarily replace the recently migrated to Celtic Glasgow Glenn Loovens .. He played his first game on October 25, 2008 for the Welsh capital club against Nottingham Forest ( 1:0), as he was substituted for the captain Darren Purse. After a poor defensive performance of the team in the match against Plymouth Argyle (1:2) to coach Dave Jones decided to far-reaching changes which also previously targeted "parent center back pair " Darren Purse and Roger Johnson was up for consideration. This Gyepes came at the expense of Purse 's 2-2 against FC Reading his first start and the since July 2008 with the Hungarian figure skater Diana Poth married Gyepes brought it in the first week of December 2008 and in the " Team of the Week ". After 21 games in the 2008/ 09 season the club took him in April 2009 for a further three -year contract.

Hungarian national

Gyepes denied on 12 February 2002 against the Czech Republic his first international match for the Hungarian national team, was a total of 22 games to November 2005 regulars and completed a total of nine competitive stakes in the European Championship and World Cup qualifiers. After his serious knee injury in the " Wolves " he also found in the national team no longer uses. In March 2009, the new coach Erwin Koeman nominated him at the stable performance of Gyepes in Cardiff again for the upcoming World Cup qualifiers against Albania and Malta. On 12 August 2009, he was against Romania (0-1) for the first time in Hungary on the field.

Achievements

• Hungarian Champion: 2001, 2004
• Hungarian Cup Winners: 2003, 2004
• Hungarian Super Cup winner: 2004