Gábor Gyepes

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The native form of this personal name is Gyepes Gábor. This article uses the Western name order.

Gábor Gyepes
Personal information
Date of birth	26 June 1981 (1981-06-26) (age 28)
Place of birth	Budapest, Hungary
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position	Centre back
Club information
Current club	Cardiff City
Number	6
Youth career
	Ferencváros
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1999–2005 2005–2007 2008 2008–	Ferencváros Wolverhampton Wanderers Northampton Town Cardiff City	112 (12) 020 0(0) 015 0(0) 027 0(2)
National team2
2002–	Hungary	022 0(1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:19, 3 May 2009. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 10 September 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Gábor Gyepes (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈɡaːbor ˈɟɛpɛʃ]; born 26 June 1981 in Budapest) is a Hungarian international footballer, currently playing for Cardiff City in the Football League Championship.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Personal life 4 Honours 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Club career

Gyepes began his career at Ferencváros in his home country. As a youngster in the clubs youth system he played in all outfield positions, including scoring 20 times in his last 16 games during his final year in the youth side. He made his first team debut in 1999 and went on to establish himself in the side over the following years, including playing in the Champions League qualifiers and then the UEFA Cup.^[1]

In July 2005, Gyepes joined Football League Championship side Wolverhampton Wanderers initially on loan from Ferencváros after impressing during a trial week.^[2] He made his debut for the club on 23 August 2005 in a 5-1 League Cup rout of Chester City.

He became a regular fixture at centre back during the season, partnering Joleon Lescott, and his move was made permanent when he signed a two-and-a-half year contract in December 2005 for £400,000.^[3] This deal later led to an FA charge against Gyepes' agent for improper practice.^[4] However, he ruptured cruciate knee ligaments on 25 March 2006, during a 3-1 defeat against Sheffield Wednesday and underwent surgery to repair the injury^[5] and was told that he would never play football again. This injury ruled him out of the whole of the following season, despite making a reserve appearance in February 2007. After suffering a further setback, it was reported that his contract with Wolves had been terminated by mutual consent in April 2007 so Gyepes could continue his rehabilitation in Hungary.^[6]

After regaining full fitness, the defender returned to England and won a contract at Northampton Town in January 2008 that ran until the end of the season after being recomended by goalkeeping coach Jim Barron, who had prevoiously worked with Gyepes at Wolves.^[7] Gyepes also spent time on trial at Queens Park Rangers as his agent also represented their Hungarian international Ákos Buzsáky. He signed a new contract in April 2008 to keep him at the club until the end of the 2008/09 season. The contract included a release clause allowing him to discuss a transfer to any club offering a particular fee to Northampton Town^[8].

On 19 August 2008, he completed a move to Football League Championship side Cardiff City, as a replacement for Glenn Loovens who had completed a move to Celtic several days before, after they offered the required amount to trigger the clause, thought to be in the region of £200,000^[9]. He made his debut for the club on 25 October when he came on as a substitute to replace captain Darren Purse during a 1-0 win over Nottingham Forest. After a poor defensive performance during a 2-1 defeat to Plymouth Argyle in November manager Dave Jones made several changes to the side, including handing Gyepes his first start in place of club captain Darren Purse in a 2-2 draw with Reading.^[10] After settling in the first team, including being named in the Championship team of the week for the first week of December,^[11] Gyepes scored his first goal for the Bluebirds with the second goal in the 2-1 win over Ipswich Town. After making over 21 appearances during the season, he signed a new three year deal at Cardiff after activating a clause in his contract.^[12]

[edit] International career

Gyepes made his debut for Hungary in 2002 and played 22 times in the following three years. However his knee injury sustained while playing for Wolves meant he fell out of favour. In March 2009, his form playing for Cardiff saw him receive his first call up in three years for the world cup qualifiers against Albania and Malta.

[edit] Personal life

Gyepes and his wife, figure skater Diana Poth, married on 12 July 2008.^[13]

[edit] Honours

Ferencváros

• Hungarian National Championship I winner: 2
  

2001, 2004

• Hungarian Cup winner: 2
  

2003, 2004

• Hungarian Super Cup winner: 1
  

2004

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official club profile
• Gábor Gyepes career stats at Soccerbase
• Fan discussion of Gyepes (English)

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