Alex Bunbury

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Alex Bunbury
Alexander Bunbury Victoria C.-B.jpg
as coach of the public test camp "GotGame" of
the Canadian Premier League.
Personnel
Surname Alexander Bunbury
birthday June 18, 1967
place of birth PlaisanceGuyana
size 186 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1987-1990 Hamilton Steelers 76 (28)
1990 Toronto Blizzard (12)
1991 Montreal Supra (7)
1992-1993 West Ham United 4 0(0)
1993-1999 Marítimo Funchal 165 (59)
1999-2000 Kansas City Wizards 24 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983 Canada U-17 2 0(0)
1984-1985 Canada U-20 16 0(4)
1987 Canada Olympics 3 0(0)
1989 Canada futsal 3 0(1)
1986-1997 Canada 64 (16)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2000-2008 Bangu FC
2014– Minnesota Twin Stars
1 Only league games are given.

Alexander "Alex" Bunbury (born June 18, 1967 in Plaisance , Guyana ) is a former Canadian football player. The 64-time national player played in Canada, England, Portugal and the USA over the course of his career. In 2006 he was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame . His son Teal Bunbury is also a professional footballer and his daughter Kylie Bunbury is an actress.

He has been coaching the Minnesota Twin Stars soccer team since 2014.

Club career

Bunbury, who came to Montreal with his family from Guyana when he was a child , began playing football at club level at the age of 12 and started his professional career in 1987 in the Canadian Soccer League with the Hamilton Steelers . After engagements with the league rivals Toronto Blizzard (1990) and Montreal Supra (1991) he was brought in December 1992 for 200,000 pounds by manager Billy Bonds to the English first division club West Ham United . The transfer turned out to be a failure, Bunbury only made four league and two cup appearances before his departure and remained without a goal.

At the end of 1993 he moved to the Portuguese first division club Marítimo Funchal , located on the Atlantic island of Madeira , for 50,000 pounds . He had his breakthrough there in the 1994/95 season, when he was the top scorer of his team with 11 goals of the season and scored the 1-0 winner against FC Porto in the semi-finals of the Cup . In the final, Sporting Lisbon was a size too big (0: 2); Bunbury was honored for his performance as the best foreign player of the 1994/95 season. He also received the Canada's Footballer of the Year award, an honor he first received in 1993. The striker remained active for Funchal until 1999 and distinguished himself as a regular goalscorer. He scored 59 goals in 165 league appearances, making him the best first division hunter in the history of Marítimo Funchal.

In the summer of 1999, he returned to North America and signed in Major League Soccer with the Kansas City Wizards . After winning the title in the 2000 season , in which Bunbury could only participate at the beginning of the season due to an ankle injury in June, he announced his resignation.

National team

Bunbury first appeared in an official junior international match for the Canadian U-17s in 1983 and was part of the U-20 squad in the following years . In 1985 he took part with the U-20 selection in the Junior World Championship in the Soviet Union. He formed together with Doug McNaught the storm duo, which, like the entire team, remained without a goal and was eliminated as the group bottom.

On August 24, 1986 Bunbury made his debut as part of the Merlion Cup , an invitation tournament in Singapore, in a 1-0 win over the hosts in the Canadian senior team . In the course of his national team career, he was part of the line-up at the CONCACAF Gold Cups in 1993 and 1996 , when the Canadian team was eliminated in the preliminary round. In qualifying for the 1994 World Cup in the USA, Bunbury was the best Canadian goalscorer with five goals and was about to participate in the World Cup. In the last and decisive group game against the Mexicans tied on points, Canada already led 1-0 with a goal from Bunbury, but ultimately lost the game 1: 2 and had to go to the intercontinental play-offs, in which Australia was penalized in the first round was subject.

With the last qualifying game for the 1998 World Cup on November 16, 1997 against Costa Rica, when a qualification for Canada was already impossible, Bunbury's international career ended after 64 games and 16 goals. With him, his long-time teammates Paul Dolan , Geoff Aunger , Frank Yallop and Colin Miller said goodbye to the national team.

In 1989 he took part with the national futsal team at the invitation of FIFA in the first ever Futsal World Cup in the Netherlands. In the 6-2 win against Japan, Bunbury was once successful as a goalscorer, Canada finished the group stage in 3rd place.

successes

at club level

  • American champion: 2000
  • Portuguese cup finalist: 1994/95
  • UEFA Cup participation: 1994/95, 1998/99

Individually

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. slam.canoe.ca: Bunbury, others honored (Apr. 30, 2006)
  2. ^ Tony Hogg (2005): Who's Who of West Ham United. London, Profile Sports Media, p. 38 ISBN 1-903135-50-8
  3. sportsillustrated.cnn.com: Three Kansas City players announce end of careers (Oct. 15, 2000) ( Memento of July 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. Alex Bunbury in the database of FIFA (English)