Bertalan Kun (born 6 May 1999) is a Hungarian professional

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who plays as a

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for

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Playing career

Early career

Bertalan Kun started to play in Veszprém FC USE in 2005 when he was six. His first coach was Miklós Kelemen. From the U6 team he reached the higher levels. In the 2010–2011 season, when Csaba Kozma was his coach, he scored 11 goals in 20 games in the U13 team of North-West group of NBII. One year later he scored 58 goals in 16 games and he became the top scorer of his level.

PSV

His father got a two-year job contract in the

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and his son moved with him to Eindhoven. There he joined the PSV D1 team which was trained in the

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training complex. In 2011

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launched an application for the international transfer of underage players but the

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rejected it at the first time. After this, they sent this petition twice but none of them were successful. However, on 25 August 2015 they received the permission when the

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authorizes the transfers of the players over the age of 16 within the EU. Between 2011 and 2015 Bertalan Kun could play in PSV Eindhoven because his club sent him to many international tournaments and friendly games. He debuted among the adults on 6 November 2016 when he got an opportunity in

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which is the reserve team of PSV Eindhoven in the Dutch second division. He was replaced in the 65 minutes in a league game against

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but they lose 0–1. In December there were rumours in the press about several Premier League and Portuguese first division club want to sign him. The news was confirmed by his manager.

Győri ETO

After leaving

in the summer 2019, Kun returned to Hungary and signed a deal until the summer 2021 with

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on 8 October 2019. Next he played one season with

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Proleter

In September 2021 he signed ŵith Serbian side

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Kozármisleny

On 14 December 2022, Kun signed with second-tier

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club

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International career

He was called up to his first national team ( Hungary national Under-15 football team) in November 2013 from György Korolovszky. His debut was against Slovakia (0-0) on 5 November 2013. His debut score was against Turkey (3-3) on 10 April 2014. He was called up to the U16 team in August 2014 from István Mihalecz. He played ten times here and he scored in the 4th minute of a Hungary – Latvia game (4-0) on 10 March 2015. He was called up to the U17 team in September 2015, under manager

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. He would play in this national team only twice. He was not entered to the European U17 Championship in 2016. In August 2016 Antal Németh called up him to the U18 team. He made his debut against Russia in this age group on 16 August 2016.http://www.mlsz.hu/blog/2016/08/16/egygolos-vereseg-a-jezek-torna-nyitanyan/ In October 2016 the U19 team manager, Michael Boris called up him to the Hungary national team. He debuted against Greece on 13 October and he played the whole game.

Career statistics

References

External links

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Official website
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Bertalan Kun PSV.nl
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'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Kun, Bertalan 1999 births Footballers from Veszprém Living people Hungarian men's footballers Hungary men's youth international footballers Men's association football midfielders Jong PSV players Győri ETO FC players Zalaegerszegi TE players FK Proleter Novi Sad players Kozármisleny SE footballers FC Veszprém footballers Budafoki MTE footballers Eerste Divisie players Nemzeti Bajnokság II players Nemzeti Bajnokság I players Serbian SuperLiga players Nemzeti Bajnokság III players Hungarian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Serbia Hungarian expatriate sportspeople in Serbia 21st-century Hungarian sportsmen