HungaryFootball wasn’t the first sport that he tried. In Alsókerepec, where he was born, his father initially took him to kickboxing, thinking that it would suit him. During the training sessions, while he was running laps on the track, football trainings and matches were always taking place in the grassy area in the middle, and little Erik longed to be there. He was seven years old when his father, giving in to his son’s pleas, took him to a football training session — and that’s how it all began.
Five years later, leaving behind his parents and home, he moved to Lviv, nearly a four-hour drive from where he lived, and joined the local youth team to play football. He played there for three years, excelling in the sport, and then, through the efforts of manager Sándor Rózsa, he was admitted to the football academy in Debrecen. For six months, however, he continued to travel back to Tarpa to play for the county-level senior team, while attending training sessions at the academy.
Since he left his parental home quite early, the transition wasn’t difficult for him, but learning Hungarian took sime time. Although his mother is Hungarian, his father only speaks Ukrainian, so that was the language they always spoke at home (and still do to this day).
On May 5, 2018, he made his debut in the Hungarian top division in an away match against Honvéd, when he was just 18 years old. He can play both as a right-back and a defensive midfielder. In the summer of 2021, he signed a new three-year contract with DVSC.
