Hungarian soccer players conquering America!

Making the American dream is now a reality for three Hungarian soccer (or football) players at Sporting Kansas City under the coaching of Hungarian-born Peter Vermes.

North American soccer league (MLS – Major League Soccer) 2019 regular season began on the 2nd of March, and it was the occasion that Index chose to gather Hungarian soccer players who play in the MLS. Interestingly, three of them play in the same team in Kansas City, while Nemanja Nikolics plays for Chicago and Zoltán Stieber for DC United. Actually, they are performing remarkably well in the US league, many of them better, than in European clubs previously in their careers. Nemanja Nikolics, for instance, was the top scorer of 2017 MLS season with 24 goals.

Dániel Sallói:

Sallói is a 22-year-old Hungarian striker. He started to play at Kansas in 2014 when he was 18 years old. At the end of the 2018 season.

Sallói was also named as best player of Kansas last year, because of which he was invited to commercial photoshoot alongside with his soccer-star-idol Zlatan Ibrahimović. In comparison with his and Zlatan’s salary, Daniel earns a ‘little’ 81 thousand dollars, compared to the Swedish star’s 1.5 million dollars total compensation.

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