Tony Kurbos
Appearance
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 20 October 1960 | ||
Place of birth | Maribor, FPR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
1972–1979 | Stuttgarter Kickers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1979–1981 | Stuttgarter Kickers | 24 | (3) |
1981–1982 | Tongeren | 27 | (5) |
1982–1985 | Metz | 96 | (38) |
1985–1986 | Saint-Étienne | 28 | (10) |
1986–1987 | Mulhouse | 31 | (21) |
1987–1989 | Nice | 40 | (6) |
1989 | Monaco | 5 | (0) |
1989–1990 | Nice | 15 | (1) |
1990–1991 | Dunkerque | 17 | (0) |
Total | 283 | (84) | |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Zvonko "Toni" Kurbos, better known as Tony Kurbos (born 20 October 1960) is a German-French former professional footballer who played as a forward. He scored 84 goals in his professional career.
He scored a hat-trick against Barcelona in Camp Nou, eliminating them in the first round of the 1984–85 Cup Winners' Cup with Metz. The match was described in the British Guardian as the biggest European football upset ever.[2]
In that same year, Kurbos assisted and scored in extra time of the Coupe de France final. Metz won the match against Monaco 2–0, claiming their first major trophy ever.
Honours
[edit]Metz
Individual
References
[edit]- ^ Tony Kurbos at WorldFootball.net
- ^ "The Joy of Six: Great European upsets". The Guardian. 6 November 2009. Retrieved 26 August 2012.
External links
[edit]- Tony Kurbos at WorldFootball.net
- Tony Kurbos at the German Football Association
- Tony Kurbos at Fussballdaten.de (in German)
- Tony Kurbos at L'Équipe (in French)
- Tony Kurbos at FC Metz (in French)
Categories:
- 1960 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Maribor
- Naturalized citizens of France
- Men's association football forwards
- Yugoslav men's footballers
- Slovenian men's footballers
- German men's footballers
- Stuttgarter Kickers players
- K.S.K. Tongeren players
- FC Metz players
- AS Saint-Étienne players
- FC Mulhouse players
- OGC Nice players
- AS Monaco FC players
- USL Dunkerque players
- 2. Bundesliga players
- Ligue 1 players
- Ligue 2 players
- Yugoslav expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in West Germany
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in West Germany
- Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
- Expatriate men's footballers in France
- Yugoslav expatriate sportspeople in France