Roland Sallai

Roland Sallai
Personal information
Full name Roland Sallai
Date of birth (1997-05-22) 22 May 1997
Place of birth Budapest, Hungary
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position Winger
Club information
Current team
 SC Freiburg
Number 22
Youth career
2003–2007 Diósgyőr
2007–2009 Siófok
2009–2014 Videoton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Puskás 48 (3)
2016–2017 → Palermo (loan) 21 (1)
2017–2018 APOEL 29 (9)
2018– SC Freiburg 4 (1)
National team‡
2015 Hungary U-18 3 (1)
2015– Hungary U-19 1 (0)
2015 Hungary U-20 4 (1)
2015– Hungary U-21 8 (1)
2016– Hungary 10 (1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 October 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 September 2018

Roland Sallai (born 22 May 1997) is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays for German club SC Freiburg. He also plays for Hungary national football team.[1]

Club career

Puskas FC

Roland Sallai started his professional career at Puskás FC where he played from 2014 until the summer of 2017, Played 65 matches and scored 4 goals in all the events for Puskás FC.

Palermo (loan)

On 4 August 2016, Sallai joined Italian club Palermo on a seasonal loan, until the end of the 2016–17 season with a loan fee of €300,000.

Sallai completed 84 minutes on his debut for Serie A's club on 10 September 2016 against Napoli. He scored his first official goal for Palermo on 19 March 2017 against Udinese. He appeared in 21 Serie A matches (11 at starting line-up, 10 as a substitute) and scored 1 goal.

APOEL

On 29 August 2017, it was announced that APOEL had secured his signature on a four year contract until the end of May 2021, for an undisclosed transfer fee from Puskás, rumored to be around €2 million.

On 9 September, he made his debut and scored his first goal against Nea Salamina. He appeared in 29 Cypriot First Division matches and scored 9 goals.

He also appeared in 6 UEFA Champions League matches against Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and Tottenham Hotspur.

SC Freiburg

On 31 August 2018, Sallai signed a four-year deal with Bundesliga club, SC Freiburg for a fee reported to be €4.5 million.[2] On 22 September 2018 he scored and won a penalty on his debut against Wolfsburg at Volkswagen Arena on the 4th match day of the 2018–19 Bundesliga in a 3–1 victory.[3]

International career

He made his full international debut on 20 May 2016 in a friendly match against Ivory Coast at the Groupama Arena, Budapest, Hungary.[4]

Career statistics

Club

As of 7 January 2018[5][6]
Club Season League Cup League Cup Europe Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Puskás FC 2013–14 NB I 000010— — 10
2014–15 1623031— — 223
2015–16 3111000— — 321
Palermo (loan) 2016–17 Serie A 21110— — — — 221
Total 21110— — 00221
Puskás FC 2017–18 NB I 100000— — 10
Total 483404100564
APOEL 2017–18 Cypriot First Division 29 9 4 0 — — 6 0 39 9
Career totals 981390416011714

International

As of 9 June 2017

Updated to games played as of 26 October 2014.

International goals

Scores and results list Hungary's goal tally first.[7]
No.DateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
1.11 September 2018Groupama Arena, Budapest, Hungary Greece1–02–12018–19 UEFA Nations League C

References

  1. ↑ Fifa u20 world cup squad (hungarian)
  2. ↑ "Roland Sallai kommt zum Sport-Club". SC Freiburg. 31 August 2018. Retrieved 31 August 2018.
  3. ↑ "Sallainak 7 perc kellett a gólhoz a Freiburgban, aztán megsérült". Nemzeti Sport. 22 September 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  4. ↑ "Nem tudtuk feltörni az elefántok masszív védelmét". mlsz.hu (in Hungarian). Hungarian Football Federation. 20 May 2016. Retrieved 30 May 2016.
  5. ↑ "R. Sallai". Soccerway. Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Sallai Roland". MLSZ.hu (in Hungarian). Retrieved 15 April 2017.
  7. ↑ "Sallai, Roland". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 September 2018.


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