Alex DeJohn

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Alex DeJohn
Personnel
Surname Alexander Ray DeJohn
birthday May 10, 1991
place of birth Marlboro Township , United States
size 183 centimeters
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Players Development Academy
2005-2008 Marlboro High School
2009–2012 Old Dominion Monarchs
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2011 Central Jersey Spartans 11 (0)
2013 Ekenäs IF 26 (2)
2014-2015 Start Kristiansand 43 (2)
2014 Turku PS 28 (1)
2017-2019 Dalkurd FF 38 (2)
2019– Orlando City 6 (0)
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1 Only league games are given.
As of April 27, 2020

Alexander "Alex" Ray DeJohn (born May 10, 1991 in Marlboro Township , New Jersey ) is an American football player on the position of a defender who has been in the squad of the Norwegian first division club Start Kristiansand since 2015 .

Career

Career start

Alex DeJohn was born in 1991 as the youngest son of Rocco and Angela DeJohn in Marlboro Township near the Atlantic coast of the US state New Jersey, where he grew up with his older brother Michael. He started his career as a football player at an early age and was also a member of the football team there during his high school years, which he spent at Marlboro High School , a public school in his hometown. During this time he played on the NJ ODP state team for the last three of his four high school years , was on the Region 1 ODP team in 2007 and 2008, or received an Honorable Mention in the New- Jersey All State Team 2007 or New Jersey All State Third Team the following year 2008. He also led his team in his senior year as a team captain and was All District Defender for three years . In 2009 he began his studies at Old Dominion University in Norfolk , Virginia , more than 500 kilometers away , and also worked here as a football player for their sports department. In his freshman year, DeJohn, who was trained as a defender and also belonged to the Players Development Academy founded in 1998 and based in Bernardsville , New Jersey, played in 13 championship games for the Old Dominion Monarchs , where he himself remained goalless.

In the following sophomore year 2010, DeJohn quickly became a regular in the team of long-time coach Alan Dawson, who came from Northern Ireland , and was on the pitch in all 18 games played from the start, but remained goalless himself again. Only in his junior year was Alex DeJohn able to present himself as a goalscorer and scored one goal in 19 missions, all of them from the start, and prepared another for his teammates. In 2011 he was also selected in the Stihl Classic All Tournament Selection . In his final senior year, he started again in all of his 16 championship appearances, scoring a goal in the national Fox Soccer game against George Mason University . In addition, he was brought to the All- CAA Second Team as a defender . In the Players Development Academy mentioned above , he was part of the PDA Cruyff team and was finally drafted as part of this team as the 42nd pick in the third round of the MLS Supplemental Draft 2013 for the MLS franchise New England Revolution . This was at the same time, after 2011, when he appeared in the game-free time at the university for the Central Jersey Spartans with play in the USL Premier Development League , his second club station in men's football. DeJohn was used in the team of Northern Irish Sam Nellins that only existed from 2009 to 2013 in eleven league games and remained goalless during this time.

Change to Europe

After he did not make any appearances for the Revs, the 1.83 m tall defensive player soon switched to the then Finnish third division club Ekenäs IF . In the Eteläinen, the name of one of the four groups of the Kakkonen in which the Ekenäs IF was represented, DeJohn was immediately used as a regular player and was used for one game in all championship games except for a red card suspension. He was able to achieve a goal on May 25, 2013 in a 3-0 win over the later relegated Laajasalon Palloseura ; this remained the only one during this season. With the team he also took part in the Finnish Cup in 2013 , where he lost 3-1 with the team in the fourth round to the league rivals Laajasalon Palloseura and was eliminated from the current tournament. At the end of the season he took first place with the team in the Eteläinen and got the opportunity with the team to contest a promotion play-off for the second-class Ykkönen . After the first leg against FC Jazz Pori ended in a 2-2 draw after two goals by Mamadou Konate , the second leg, when Konate was sent off after 18 minutes with the red card , lost 2-0 and the Ekenäs lost IF had to stay in the third highest soccer league in the country. It should also be noted that at that time, Yannick Smith and Jordan LeBlanc were two other former Monarchs team-mates represented in the Kakkonen.

Even before the team made it to the second division in the following season, Alex DeJohn transferred to the top division of Finland , where he was accepted by the Turku PS . Even the Finnish first division team relied on DeJohn as a regular player and so he came to a record of 28 appearances in 33 league games, where he was used almost exclusively in central defense . In addition to a goal that he scored in a 2: 3 away defeat against Inter Turku on July 2, 2014 , he was also able to contribute two assists in the course of the 2014 game year , but not avert relegation of the team at the end of the season. In the Finnish League Cup 2014 , TPS was the last in group A to retire prematurely; In the Finnish Football Cup 2014 , he made it with the team to the round of 16 and was eliminated from the second division JJK with 0: 1.

Even at TPS, DeJohn only lasted a year before he moved to Norway for a free transfer to Tippeligaen club Start Kristiansand at the beginning of 2015 , with whom he signed a two-year contract that expired at the end of 2016. In the Norwegian first class, the US central defender was also considered a regular by Mons Ivar Mjelde from the start , but had to accept a few short appearances in between. DeJohn could not keep his traditional position after the coaching change, which took place between the end of August and the beginning of September, and after long-time coach Mons Ivar Mjelde brought the previous assistant coach of the professional team and head coach of the second team, Bård Borgersen . Under Borgersen, the US-American had to take a seat on the bench and so far (as of October 6, 2015) he was last used in an official competitive game on August 16, 2015. In the 2015 NM Cup , DeJohn was able to record a performance when he and the team were eliminated 4-0 against third division club Vindbjart FK in the second round . To date (as of October 6, 2015), the central defender has made 19 Tippeligaen appearances in which he was still goalless.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alex DeJohn on the official website of the Norwegian Football Association (Norwegian), accessed on October 6, 2015
  2. ↑ 2013 MLS Draft Picks of the Player Development Academy ( Memento of the original from June 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 6, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pdasoccer.org
  3. ↑ 2013 MLS Supplemental Draft on the official MLS website , accessed on October 6, 2015
  4. ↑ Alex DeJohn Playing Professionally In Finland , accessed October 6, 2015
  5. ↑ Nuorille lupauksille jaossa suurta vastuuta: “Pelaajabudjetista pakko tappaa osa pois” (Finnish), accessed on October 6, 2015
  6. ↑ Tippeligaens overganger 2015 (Norwegian), accessed on October 6, 2015


personal data
SURNAME DeJohn, Alex
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeJohn, Alexander Ray (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1991
PLACE OF BIRTH Marlboro Township , New Jersey, United States