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Zoltán Kiss (footballer, born 1980)

Hungarian association football player (b. 1980)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ836237 ↗
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Zoltán Kiss (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈzoltaːn ˈkiʃ]; born 18 August 1980) is a Hungarian former football player.

He started playing football at the age of 7 and he was offered to DVSC where he went on step by step through the different age groups scoring some goals as he was played up front at the time. Later on, he went to Bocskai to return to DVSC from there. Herczeg András sent him on against Újpest in 1997 during his first reign at Debrecen. The 17-year-old scored his first goal on his second game for the club. Although a member of the team he got free transferred in 1999 because of the financial trouble at the club. He was signed by Belgian club Beerschot Antwerp to spend 2 years in the Belgian first division. He returned to Loki in 2001 to be part of the championship campaign in 2005. Three times champion and two times Hungarian Cup winner and counts five international caps under Lothar Mattheus and Péter Bozsik. Different DVSC managers have played him in different positions but none of them could imagine the starting eleven without the enthusiastic midfielder.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Zoltán Kiss (footballer, born 1980)” as hungarian association football player (b. 1980). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980, 1997, 1999, 2001—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Zoltán, Kiss and footballer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as hungarian association football player (b. 1980). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q836237. The first chronological checks are 1980, 1997, 1999 and 2001.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zoltán Kiss (footballer, born 1980)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.