Background
Kádár, who comes from the Hungarian minority in Romania, was born in Ozun in 1966.
Kádár, who comes from the Hungarian minority in Romania, was born in Ozun in 1966.
At the age of 18 he moved to Brașov to play for local club Tractorul. In 1987 he enrolled at the Babeș-Bolyai University, subsequently he switched to the university club Football Club Universitatea Cluj. In 1991 Kádár was signed by Football Club Dinamo Bucharest on the initiation of club president Vasile Ianu for a fee of United States$ 30,000.
In January 1996 Kádár returned to Universitatea for a brief period.
He eventually retired at the end of the season and opened a restaurant in Gherla. Not much later, however, he was approached by fellow football player Gábor Gerstenmájer, who then played in Switzerland.
Kádár finally changed his mind and returned to active football. He moved to Switzerland to play for Football Club Schaffhausen, where he spent four seasons before in 2000 the club got relegated and Kádár switched to fourth division team Football Club Frauenfeld as a player-coach.
He retired in 2005 and became a youth coach at Winterthur.