Andy Najar

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Andy Najar
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Personnel
Surname Andy Ariel Najar Rodríguez
birthday March 16, 1993
place of birth Choluteca ,  Honduras
size 170 cm
position Full-back (right)
Juniors
Years station
2008-2009 DC United
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2010-2013 DC United 82 (10)
2013-2020 RSC Anderlecht 124 (11)
2020– Los Angeles FC 0 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2012– Honduras U-23 7 0(0)
2011– Honduras 36 0(4)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 7, 2020

2 As of June 26, 2019

Andy Ariel Najar Rodríguez (born March 16, 1993 in Choluteca , Departamentos Choluteca ) is a Honduran football player . He will play for Los Angeles FC in the USA from July 2020 .

Career

society

Najar came at the age of 13 years in the United States and attended in Alexandria the Thomas A. Edison High School . In 2008 he joined the DC United Youth Academy . There he received numerous awards and honors for his achievements.

On March 11, 2010, he left high school and was only the second player at the academy to get a professional contract with DC United as part of the Adidas generation . In the league, he made his debut on March 28 in the opening game of Major League Soccer 2010 against the Kansas City Wizards , which was lost 4-0. On April 28, he scored his first professional goal against FC Dallas as part of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup . Najar was named MLS Rookie of the Year 2010 ahead of Tim Ream of the New York Red Bulls and Danny Mwanga of the Philadelphia Union .

On November 27, he began a one-week trial at Tottenham Hotspur to keep himself fit for the 2012 Major League Soccer, which begins in the spring .

On January 7, 2013, he was for a month to Europe in the Belgian Pro League at the RSC Anderlecht awarded. At the end of January, the RSC signed a firm commitment to Najar. In his first season he won the 2012/13 championship with Anderlecht , but was not used during the season. On August 2, 2013, Najar made his debut for RSC Anderlecht when he came on for Massimo Bruno in the 78th minute in the 78th minute of the 4-0 win on the second matchday of the Pro League season 2013/14 against Cercle Bruges . In this season he was after difficulties at the beginning of the season, in the course of which he was mostly not even part of the squad, a regular player with 25 appearances in the league. Furthermore, he came to a use in the UEFA Champions League when he was in the last game in the group stage at Olympiacos in the starting line-up, with the departure of the Anderlecht was already certain; the RSC lost the game 3-1. Najar was again Belgian champion with his team at the end of the season.

In the next few years he was a regular at RSC Anderlecht. From June 2016 to November 2016 he failed due to a torn cruciate ligament; also due to thigh problems from July 2017 to August 2018. He played his last game for RSC Anderlecht on February 17, 2019. After that he was injured again by the cruciate ligament tear or belonged to the end of the 2019/20 season due to COVID-19 -Pandemic due to his training deficit not part of the matchday squad.

On June 17, 2020, his move back to the USA to Los Angeles FC was announced for the new season .

National team

Najar had the option of playing for the US national team or for the Honduran national team. On April 6, 2011 he announced that he would play for Honduras if he was nominated.

On September 3, 2011, he made his debut for Honduras in a friendly against Colombia . With the Honduran U-23 national team, he took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London . Najar was also appointed to the squad of the Honduran senior team for the 2013 Gold Cup , where he scored the only goal of the game in the quarter-finals against Costa Rica (final 1-0).

In 2014 he was appointed by then coach Luis Fernando Suárez in the selection squad for the 2014 World Cup , where he played against France (final score 0: 3) and Switzerland (final score 0: 3).

titles and achievements

DC United
  • MLS Rookie of the Year : 2010
RSC Anderlecht

Web links

  • Profile on the RSC Anderlecht website
  • Andy Najar in the database of weltfussball.de
  • Andy Najar in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
  • Andy Najar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DC United Signs 17-Year-Old Honduran Andy Najar from Youth System
  2. ↑ Kansas City Wizards 4-0 DC United , weltfussball.de
  3. ^ DC United's Andy , voices.washingtonpost.com
  4. ↑ Teen phenom Najar takes MLS Rookie Year , mlssoccer.com
  5. ↑ Monday kickaround: American Samoa, FIFA rankings, Washington coaches, DC United, Montreal Impact, MLS, Maryland Terrapins, NCAA tournaments , washingtonpost.com
  6. ↑ DC United loans Najar to Anderlecht , sportsillustrated.cnn.com
  7. ↑ United's Andy Najar transferred to Belgian side RSC Anderlecht , dcunited.com
  8. ↑ Najar announces his transfer to Los Angeles. In: anderslecht-online.be. June 17, 2020, accessed June 17, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Andy Najar to represent Honduras , espn.go.com
  10. ↑ Coach Suarez names World Cup line-up. kicker online, May 5, 2014, accessed June 15, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Najar, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Najar Rodríguez, Andy Ariel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Honduran soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1993
PLACE OF BIRTH Choluteca , Honduras