Márkó Futács

Márkó Futács in the jersey from SV Werder (2009)

Márkó Futács (born 22 February 1990 in Budapest) is a Hungarian football player.

Club career

Futács comes from the youth department of the unterklassigen VIII kerületi VSC from the VIII district of Budapest. From this he moved early in the IX. District to Ferencvaros Budapest. In 2006 he went to France in the youth department of AS Nancy. Early February 2009, changed the attacker for the German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.

His professional league debut Futács on March 6, 2010 in a game of third league with Werder Bremen II against Kickers Offenbach. Due to EU directives on free movement of workers he had to wait for his gambling license for the second team of Werder Bremen one year.

On 23 July 2010 he was loaned for one season to the second division team FC Ingolstadt 04. In his first game for the second division Ingolstadt at the 1:4 defeat against FC Augsburg, he scored his first goal.

When he returned for the 2011/12 season to Werder, he had a regular place and was not used, so that he, just before closure of the transfer window, changed to the English second division club Portsmouth FC. His debut was the Hungarian September 10, 2011, when he replaced in the away game against West Ham United in the 83rd minute Benjamin Mwaruwari, but the scarce 3:4 defeat could not prevent.

After the descent of Portsmouth in summer 2012, he moved free transfer to the second division Leicester City, where he signed a three-year contract by the end of June 2015.

In the summer of 2013 he left England again and returned to Hungary to Diósgyőri VTK.

National

With the Hungarian U20 national Futács took part in the 2009 World Cup, where he scored the first goal to make it 2-1 in the semi-final defeat against Ghana. In the match for 3rd place, which Hungary won on penalties against Costa Rica, Futács was forced off injured in the first half.