Ádám Simon (born 30 March 1990) is a Hungarian former

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. He is the twin brother of ex-Liverpool player,

András Simon András Simon (; born 30 March 1990) is a Hungarian footballer who plays for Csákvár in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II of Hungary. He is the twin brother of Ádám Simon, also a footballer. Career Born in Salgótarján, Nógrád County, Simon s ...

Career

Szombathelyi Haladás

He played his first match in

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on 15 November 2008. He played 44 matches in the

Hungarian National Championship I Hungarian may refer to: * Hungary, a country in Central Europe * Kingdom of Hungary, state of Hungary, existing between 1000 and 1946 * Hungarians/Magyars, ethnic groups in Hungary * Hungarian algorithm, a polynomial time algorithm for solving the ...

and scored 3 goals, one of which was elected the most beautiful goal of the

2010–11 Nemzeti Bajnokság I The 2010–11 Nemzeti Bajnokság I, also known as NB I, was the 109th season of top-tier football in Hungary. The league is officially named ''Monicomp Liga'' for sponsorship reasons. The season began on 30 July 2010 and ended on 27 May 2011. De ...

season. He scored a goal from 30 meters.

Palermo

On 8 June 2011, Simon officially moved to

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for €980,000. On 24 January 2012, he went on loan to

Bari Bari ( ; ; ; ) is the capital city of the Metropolitan City of Bari and of the Apulia Regions of Italy, region, on the Adriatic Sea in southern Italy. It is the first most important economic centre of mainland Southern Italy. It is a port and ...

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, in the transfer that leads to

Massimo Donati. In January 2012, Simon was transferred to

club

on loan. Simon made his debut against Nocerina on 4 February 2012 in the 81st minute. In August 2012, he returned to

Szombathelyi Haladás Szombathelyi Haladás (), is a Hungarian football club based in Szombathely. ''Haladás'' is the Hungarian word for ''progress''. The club, which was founded in 1919, plays its home games at the Haladás Sportkomplexum which has a capacity of 8, ...

on loan. The loan was extended for one more season in July 2013. On 15 July 2014, Palermo announced to have released Simon for free.

Videoton

On 16 July 2014, Simon was signed by

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club

Videoton FC Videoton may refer to: *Videoton (company) Videoton, officially VIDEOTON HOLDING Ltd., is a privately owned company group based out of Székesfehérvár, Hungary, and specializing in contract manufacturing, mainly electronics manufacturing servic ...

. Simon signes a four-year contract with the

Székesfehérvár Székesfehérvár (; ; ; ; Serbian language, Serbian: ''Стони Београд''; ), known colloquially as Fehérvár (), is a city in central Hungary, and the country's ninth-largest city. It is the Regions of Hungary, regional capital of C ...

-based club.

International career

Simon was a stable member of U-17, U-19, and also the U-21 teams of

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. He was a member of the U-20 Hungary team which won a bronze medal in the FIFA U-20 World Cup in 2009 in

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. He participated in the

2011 Toulon Tournament The 2011 Toulon Tournament was the 39th edition of the tournament and took place from June 1 to 10. Ivory Coast were the defending champions, but they failed to win a single match and were eliminated in the group stage. Colombia won the tourname ...

with the U-21.

Club statistics

''Updated to games played as of 15 December 2019.''

Honours

FIFA U-20 World Cup The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members' men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when i ...

: **Third place:

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

References

HLSZ

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Simon, Adam 1990 births Living people Footballers from Salgótarján Hungarian twins Hungarian men's footballers Men's association football midfielders MTK Budapest FC players Szombathelyi Haladás footballers Palermo FC players SSC Bari players Fehérvár FC players Gyirmót FC Győr players Paksi FC players Győri ETO FC players Szeged-Csanád Grosics Akadémia footballers Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Nemzeti Bajnokság II players Serie B players Hungary men's youth international footballers Hungary men's under-21 international footballers Hungary men's international footballers Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Italy 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen