Imre Varadi
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Imre Varadi[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 8 July 1959||
Place of birth | Paddington,[1] London, England | ||
Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1977–1978 | Letchworth | ||
1978–1979 | Sheffield United | 10 | (4) |
1979–1981 | Everton | 26 | (6) |
1981–1983 | Newcastle United | 81 | (39) |
1983–1985 | Sheffield Wednesday | 76 | (33) |
1985–1986 | West Bromwich Albion | 32 | (9) |
1986–1988 | Manchester City | 65 | (26) |
1988–1990 | Sheffield Wednesday | 22 | (3) |
1990–1993 | Leeds United | 26 | (5) |
1992 | → Luton Town (loan) | 6 | (1) |
1993 | → Oxford United (loan) | 5 | (0) |
1993–1995 | Rotherham United | 67 | (25) |
1995 | Mansfield Town | 1 | (0) |
1995 | Boston United | ||
1995 | Scunthorpe United | 2 | (0) |
1995–1996 | Matlock Town | (0) | |
1996–1997 | Guiseley | 3 | (3) |
1997 | South Jersey Barons | 2 | (1) |
1998 | Stalybridge Celtic | 1 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1995–1996 | Matlock Town | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Imre Varadi (born 8 July 1959) is an English former professional footballer, known as a journeyman forward who appeared for 16 clubs at all levels of professional football in England.
Playing career
Varadi was born in Paddington, London, to a Hungarian father and Italian mother.[3] He started out in non-League football with Letchworth before joining Sheffield United in 1978, shortly before his nineteenth birthday.[4]
Varadi went on to become a nomadic journeyman, who rarely spent more than two years with any club and never made 100 league appearances in the colours of any team he played for.
From Sheffield United, he moved on to
He was part of the Leeds United side that won the old
He left Maine Road to sign for Sheffield Wednesday for a second time in the summer of 1988, and spent two seasons there, but after 18 months he was sold to their Yorkshire rivals Leeds United in February 1990. He spent three years at Elland Road, helping them win promotion to the First Division on his arrival, but rarely played for Leeds in the First Division due to the arrival of new players in the midfield and forward positions. He did not make enough appearances in 1991–92 to earn a league title medal. He had loan spells at Luton Town and Oxford United before finally exiting Elland Road and dropping down two divisions to sign for Rotherham United in the summer of 1993.
He spent two seasons at Millmoor, scoring 25 Division Two goals, before brief spells at Mansfield Town and Scunthorpe United. He called time on his professional career in 1995 when he became player-manager of non-league Matlock Town, before joining Guiseley.[6]
In the spring of 1997, Varadi signed with the South Jersey Barons of the USISL D-3 Pro League in the United States. He only played in two league games before returning home to England with his manager Matt Driver citing "personal reasons." He scored his lone goal of his brief stint with the Barons against the New Hampshire Phantoms on 3 May 1997 in the club's first-ever home game at Carey Stadium in Ocean City, New Jersey.
He broke his retirement for one game for Stalybridge Celtic in 1998.[7]
Post-retirement
He became a fully licensed
References
- ^ a b c "Imre Varadi". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 8 April 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-356-14354-5.
- ^ Morton, David (8 July 2016). "Newcastle United old boy Imre Varadi was born on this day". ChronicleLive. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-9560832-0-3.
- ^ "Boston United Football Club News". Boston United F.C. Retrieved 21 May 2009.
- ^ "1996-97 Appearances & Goals". HOME. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
- ^ "Stalybridge Celtic - Official Site - Player Profile Imre Varadi". stalybridgeceltic.co.uk. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
External links
- Imre Varadi at Soccerbase