Zsolt Bárányos (born 25 December 1975, in
Budapest
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) is a
Hungarian football player who plays as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
. He made most of his career in Hungary, playing for nine different clubs in two decades. He retired in 2017.
Career
Zsolt Baranyos's first team was
Kispest Honvéd, joining in 1993. After five seasons, punctuated by a victory in Cup of Hungary in 1996, he moved abroad and joined in 1998
K.F.C. Lommel S.K.
Koninklijke Football Club Lommelse Sportkring was a Belgian football club that existed between 1932 and 2003. It played two spells at the highest level in the Belgian football league system: from 1992 to 2000 and from 2001 to 2003. Its best ...
, who plays in Belgian first division. After a year, he returned to Hungary and signed to
Ferencvárosi TC
Ferencvárosi Torna Club, known as Ferencváros (), Fradi, or simply FTC, is a professional football club based in Ferencváros, Budapest, Hungary, that competes in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the top flight of Hungarian football. Ferencváros ...
, a historic rival of the Kispest. It remained there for a season then returned to Lommel. He helped the club back into Division 1 but in March 2002, the club were put into bankruptcy and ceased operations.
Free from contract, Baranyos returned to his trainer club where he plays yet a season. From 2003, it changes very regularly Club, signing 12 transfers in ten years. He plays for Vasas SC in 2003, then went a year in the MATAV SC Sopron where he won his second cup of Hungary, before returning for a season at the Vasas. He spent six months thereafter to Rákospalotai EAC, then joined in January 2007 PAE Asteras Tripolis, where it is second Greek division champion. He returned to Hungary in the summer and passes a new season to Budapest Honvéd, followed by six months at Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC. In January 2009, he is committed to the Lombard - Papa TFC, where he remained until June 2011. He then joined Vasas SC, where he again spent only a season for the third time.
In July 2012, he signed to the TK Szigetszentmiklosi, which he left six months later to return to the Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC, where he finished the season. In July 2013 he joined the ranks of Budaorsi SC for a short spell, before going on to play for another four different clubs in the lower leagues of Hungarian and Austrian football prior to his retirement at the age of 41 in 2017.
References
General references
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1975 births
Living people
Footballers from Budapest
Hungarian footballers
Association football midfielders
Hungary international footballers
Budapest Honvéd FC players
K.F.C. Lommel S.K. players
Ferencvárosi TC footballers
FC Sopron players
Vasas SC players
Rákospalotai EAC footballers
Asteras Tripolis F.C. players
Nyíregyháza Spartacus FC players
Lombard-Pápa TFC footballers
Hungarian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Belgium
Expatriate footballers in Greece
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
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