Csaba Somogyi (born 7 April 1985) is a
Hungarian football
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player who plays as a goalkeeper for Austrian club SV OK Haus Großpetersdorf.
Career
After playing for several years in his native Hungary, on 8 July 2011 Somogyi signed for English club
Fulham
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from Hungarian side
Rákospalotai EAC
Rákospalotai EAC is a Hungary, Hungarian association football club based in the Rákospalota quarter in the north-east of Budapest. REAC were promoted to the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, the first division in Hungarian football, for the 2005–06 Nemz ...
on a one-year deal, with the option to extend his contract by a further year until 2013, after having impressed the new Fulham manager
Martin Jol
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during an earlier trial at Jol's former club
Ajax
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.
Somogyi made the bench for the first time as substitute goalkeeper for Fulham's away Premier League game against
West Bromwich Albion
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at
The Hawthorns
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on 1 January 2013.
On 28 March 2013, Somogyi joined
Conference National
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side
Dartford
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is situated adjacent to the London Borough of Bexley to its west. To its north, across the Thames Estuary, is Thurrock in ...
on loan until the end of the season. He kept a clean sheet on his debut, a 0–0 away draw with
Newport County.
Somogyi was one of twelve players released by Fulham at the end of the
2012–2013 Premier League season.
In August 2019, Somogyi joined Austrian club SV OK Haus Großpetersdorf.
Profile at Fussballoesterreich
fussballoesterreich.at
References
External links
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1985 births
Living people
Footballers from Dunaújváros
Hungarian men's footballers
Hungarian expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football goalkeepers
Győri ETO FC players
DAC Nádorváros footballers
Hévíz SK footballers
Rákospalotai EAC footballers
Fulham F.C. players
Dartford F.C. players
Gyirmót FC Győr players
Szolnoki MÁV FC footballers
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Budafoki MTE footballers
Mosonmagyaróvári TE footballers
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players
National League (English football) players
Nemzeti Bajnokság II players
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in England
Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Austria
Expatriate men's footballers in England
Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
21st-century Hungarian sportsmen
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