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Kevin Kuranyi

He was born to a Panamanian mother and a German father. He's opted to play for the German national team.

Kevin Dennis Kurányi (born March 2, 1982 in Rio de Janeiro) is a German football (soccer) player, who currently plays for the Bundesliga team Schalke 04.
He was born to a German-Hungarian father and a Panamanian mother. He opted to play for the German national football team.
Kuranyi started his career in 1988, for Petrópolis-based Serrano FC in Brazil, when he was all of six years old. In 1993 he transferred to Panamanian club Las Promesas, where he played for only one year before going back to Serrano FC. Kuranyi returned to Las Promesas in 1996 for another year. In 1997 Kuranyi went to Germany, enlisting at VfB Stuttgart's B youth team. After playing a few games in the German U21 national team, he was considered for VfB's professional team, and then, in 2001, he signed his first professional contract.
After 33 matches (10 goals) for the amateur team he played 99 matches for VfB Stuttgart's professional team, to score 40 goals. He also took part in 22 European team championship games and scored 10 goals. In the 2002/2003 season of the Bundesliga, he was the best German goal-scorer and was one of the main reasons VfB Stuttgart finished second in the league. In this particular season, VfB and its "Junge Wilde" ("wild young ones") – Timo Hildebrand, Andreas Hinkel, Alexander Hleb, Philipp Lahm and Kevin Kuranyi – delighted the fans in Germany with superb attacking football.
He left his former club VfB Stuttgart during the transfer window in summer 2005 to join Schalke 04. His current contract runs till 2010.
For the German national football team Kevin has played 37 times, scoring 17 goals (as of March 24, 2006). Kuranyi made his debut for Germany during the 2004 Eurocup qualifications against Lithuania on March 29, 2003. In his third appearance, the young striker netted Germany's final qualifying goal in their 3-0 rout of Iceland. He played for his adopted country at Euro 2004, at the Confederations Cup 2005 but, surprisingly, was not nominated for the World Cup in Germany (2006).
In the season 2006/2007 he regained his form. After an absence of 15 months he was therefore recalled to play for the national team, where he initially scored during Germany's 3-1 win against Switzerland on February 7, 2007. In Germany's Euro 2008 qualifying match against the Czech Republic on March 24, he scored both goals in the 2-1 victory.
He currently leads the most contributed goals chart in the Bundesliga with 15 goals and 11 assists ahead of Diego who has scored 13 goals and made 12 assists.
He has German, Panamanian and Brazilian citizenship. Kuranyi's favorite club is CR Flamengo.
On September, 27, 2005 Kuranyi and his partner, Viktorija Pelicic, had their first child, a son named Karlo. They married on April, 28, 2007 in Stuttgart.

Schalke 04
2 March 1982
Source: Wikipedia