Kevin Kurányi

What fascinates me about Kevin Kurányi is the geography of his identity: born in Rio de Janeiro yet a striker for Germany, scoring 19 goals in 52 caps between 2003 and 2008. Numbers like that mark him as a genuine finisher, and at 190 cm his aerial threat must have been a nightmare for defenders. But I find his story compelling less for the height than for the crossing of borders it represents. A player who carried multiple roots across the football world always feels romantic to me, and I suspect his quietly reliable goal-poaching is underrated by today's highlight-driven memory.

Name (English)

Kevin Kurányi

Name (Japanese)

ケヴィン・クラニー

Reading

けゔぃん・くらにー

Born

March 2, 1982 (age 44)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dog

Origin

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Height

190 cm

Occupation

association football player

• Official sitehttps://www.kevin-kuranyi.de/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/kuranyi.k/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin%20Kur%C3%A1nyi
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B1%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q152968

Tags

• Rio de Janeiro
• association football player

Last updated

2026-06-23

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.