Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 19 July 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Siófok, Hungary | ||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Sporting Kansas City | ||
Number | 30 | ||
Youth career | |||
2005–2014 | Újpest FC | ||
2014–2015 | Sporting Kansas City | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015 | Újpest FC | 12 | (1) |
2016– | Sporting Kansas City | 1 | (0) |
2016 | → Swope Park Rangers (loan) | 10 | (4) |
2016 | → Vasas SC (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2016 | → Gyirmót (loan) | 13 | (2) |
National team‡ | |||
2013–2014 | Hungary U18 | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 April 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:01, 13 January 2016 (UTC) |
Dániel Sallói (born 19 July 1996) is a Hungarian football player who currently plays for Sporting Kansas City as a striker.
Sallói worked his way through the youth ranks of Nemzeti Bajnokság I club Újpest FC in his home town of Budapest, Hungary beginning in 2005. He was a member of the U16, U17, and U21 sides between 2011 and 2014. He was named the U16 and U17 academy Player of the Year during his one season with each team. For the 2013/14 season, the U21 team claimed second place in Hungary's U21 championship with Sallói as a member. In 2014, he traveled to the United States as a foreign exchange student and attended Blue Valley Northwest High School in Overland Park, Kansas. At that time he joined the U18 academy of Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer coached by fellow Hungarian and friend of his father István Urbányi. During the 2014/15 academy season, he scored a team-high 21 goals in 28 appearances, including three hat-tricks.
In July 2015, Sallói returned to his former club by signing for the first team of Újpest FC, although on an amateur contract. He made his professional debut on 18 July 2015, a day before his 19th birthday. He scored his first professional league goal exactly one week later in a 3-1 victory over Vasas SC. He also made four appearances for the club in the Magyar Kupa, scoring six goals in the competition. In total, he scored seven goals and four assists in sixteen matches in all competitions. In league play, he scored one goal in twelve appearances.