Ariel Lassiter

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Ariel Lassiter
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Ariel Lassiter (2019)
Personnel
Surname Ariel Daniel Lassiter Acuña
birthday September 27, 1994
place of birth Turrialba ,  Costa Rica
size 178 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Great Oaks High School
2009-2013 Albion SC
2013 Cal Poly Mustangs
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2014 GAIS Gothenburg 12 0(1)
2015-2018 LA Galaxy II 58 (30)
2016-2018 LA Galaxy 25 0(1)
2018– LD Alajuelense 16 0(3)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA U14
USA U20
2015 USA U23 2 0(0)
2015 Costa Rica U23 5 0(2)
2019– Costa Rica 6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 31, 2019

2 As of February 1, 2020

Ariel "Ari" Daniel Lassiter Acuña (born September 27, 1994 in Turrialba , Costa Rica ) is a Costa Rican -American football player on the position of a striker . He is the son of former US international Roy Lassiter .

Club career

Career start, high school and university

Ariel Lassiter was born on September 27, 1994 in the village of Turrialba, when his father was playing for the Costa Rican first division club LD Alajuelense . In 1996 his father returned to the United States with him and his mother, Wendy, and were signed to Tampa Bay Mutiny . Father Roy started the first MLS season with the Major League Soccer franchise from Tampa , Florida and immediately became the MLS 'top scorer with 27 goals. Ariel Lassiter often accompanied his father to the locker room and was considered a keen football player from an early age. At a very young age, he made international appearances for the United States and was part of their U-14 national squad. He was also used for various school teams, including the soccer team at Great Oaks High School in Temecula , California . Here he won, among other things, the U-17 Golden Ball Award as the most outstanding player of the United States Youth Soccer National Championships 2012 . A year earlier he was the U-16 Golden Boot Winner at the 2011 US Youth Soccer National Championships . In his sophomore year, he made it to the All-California-Interscholastic-Federation-State-Third-Team . He was also a letterman for all four years of high school, graduating high school with a two-time Inland Empire High School Player of the Year and a two-time Southwester League Offensive MVP . In his last two school years, he also led the team as team captain .

Even before his graduation, Ariel Lassiter was courted by numerous colleges and universities across the country and inundated with scholarship offers. During this time, he also completed trial training with the offspring of Tottenham Hotspur and Sporting Lisbon . Furthermore, he had the opportunity to move to Germany through his studies in Recreation, Parks and Tourism Administration . Subsequently, the striker, who had previously trained under his father at the youth training club Albion SC from 2009 to 2013 , decided for California Polytechnic State University , called Cal Poly , where he appeared for the men's soccer team of the university sports department Cal Poly Mustangs . The head coach there, ex-professional Paul Holocher , followed Lassiter's career since he was 14 years old . At the Cal Poly Mustangs he was a freshman alongside the slightly younger Justin Dhillon , also an attacking player. In his freshman year, Lassiter started in 21 games from the start, scored five goals and contributed four assists. With his five goals, he was the second top scorer this year on the team's internal goalscorer list. Because of his achievements, he was elected to the Big West Conference All Freshman Team .

As a professional in Sweden

In July 2014, he ended his college career early and signed a professional contract with GAIS Göteborg with play in the second-rate Swedish Superettan . Before that, in June of the same year he was registered for trial training at Helsingborgs IF, among others . He made his professional debut on August 9, 2014 when he was used by coach Per-Ola Ljung in a 2-1 home win over Husqvarna FF and replaced by Richard Ekunde from the 73rd minute of the game . By the end of the season at the beginning of November 2014, Lassiter was used in eleven other league games and was always in action from the start. In his third league appearance, a 2-0 home win over the Varbergs BoIS on August 23, he scored a penalty in the 29th minute after a foul on Gabriel Altemark-Vanneryr , which also meant the 2-0 final score. In the final ranking, he ranked tenth in the table with GAIS. After signing his contract with GAIS, the Nike company offered him a sponsorship contract for two years. He also won the attention of the Costa Rican U-23 national coach Paulo Wanchope and the US U-21 national coach Tab Ramos during his time in Gothenburg . Three rounds before the end of the 2014 season, Lassiter signed a contract for another year with GAIS and should be back with the Swedes in January 2015 for the start of training.

Switch to LA Galaxy

Start in the USL

It shouldn't come to that; on December 17, 2014 Lassiter's move back to the United States to LA Galaxy II with play in the then third-rate United Soccer League (USL) was announced. With the second professional team of the MLS franchise LA Galaxy , he was quickly deployed as a regular in the attack under coach Curt Onalfo . In 28 league appearances that were possible in regular time, he made 21 appearances. With eleven goals, he led the team's internal goalscorer list this season. After the regular season, he ranked fifth with LA Galaxy II in the Western Conference and thus made it into the first round of the season-closing play-offs. Blocked for the first round game due to a red card , Lassiter was used for his team from the conference semifinals . After a 2-0 win there over Orange County Blues FC and a 2-1 win over Oklahoma City Energy in the Conference Finals, LA Galaxy II lost 2-1 to Rochester Rhinos in extra time in the final game . In the play-offs, Lassiter contributed four goals in three appearances.

In the same year he came for the first time for the MLS team, to which he was briefly awarded, to use. He first made his debut on July 21, 2015 in a friendly against FC Barcelona when he hit the pitch in the second half. A few days later he made his competitive debut for the MLS franchise in a 3-0 away defeat by Houston Dynamo on July 25, when he came on for Kenney Walker in the 71st minute and had a scoring chance shortly before the end of the game. He then sat on the bench in a number of league games, but brought it to no further use in the MLS.

Contract in the MLS

At the beginning of March 2016, Lassiter received a contract with the MLS team, making it the fourth player after David Romney , Daniel Steres and Clément Diop to make it from the LA Galaxy farm team in the USL to the MLS squad. His contract runs until December 31, 2018. Under the head coach and general manager Bruce Arena , he was hardly used and only made three appearances in the top North American football league in the 2016 game year . He completed one of these at the beginning of April and the other two more than half a year later. In the meantime, he came back to LA Galaxy II in the United Soccer League, where he was once again one of the top scorers on his team. In the extended league he made 16 out of 30 possible appearances and contributed nine goals. With the team he made it after a fifth place in the Western Conference again in the season-closing play-offs, but retired in these in the first round game, in which he was also used. With the first division team he reached third place in the Western Conference in the final ranking of the regular season and came in the final play-offs to the Conference semifinals .

He achieved a little more match practice in Major League Soccer in the 2017 game year when the now MLS coach Curt Onalfo and his successor Sigi Schmid made him come to short appearances a total of 14 times from the end of July . However, he spent most of the season on the bench or was briefly loaned to the farm team in the professional USL. On July 23, he succeeded in a 3: 4 away defeat against New England Revolution with the goal to 3: 4 final score his first MLS goal. He finished the season with the team in last place in the Western Conference . Also in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2017 Lassiter was used in all three games of the MLS team and contributed two goals; the team was eliminated in the quarterfinals against the San José Earthquakes from the current tournament. In the USL, he came under new coach and former academy director Mike Muñoz in the game in 2017 in nine league games for use, scoring five goals. In the final ranking, the team ranked 13th in the Western Conference .

National team career

Even before his studies at Cal Poly, he came into contact with the American Football Association during his high school years and during this time completed his first appearances for the U-14 national team of the United States. He was later called up on call to the US U-20 national squad and was available on call to the US squad trained by Tab Ramos during the 2013 U-20 World Cup in Turkey , but was not part of the 21st head of players. A few months before the World Cup, he made his first appearances for the U-20 national team. Then it took another two years before Lassiter was again considered for a national selection. With the U-23 team of the United States , he took part in a European tour and was used at the end of March 2015 in games against the age colleagues from Bosnia-Herzegovina and the age colleagues from Denmark . In the same year he decided to appear internationally for his country of birth. Under the Costa Rican U-23 national coach Paulo Wanchope , he then made his team debut in the course of the Toulon tournament. Here he was used in all four group games until his team was eliminated and occasionally contributed a goal. In the same year he was used in another international match of this national selection and scored another goal in this.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ What Ever Happened To ... Roy Lassiter , accessed December 26, 2017
  2. ↑ Commit: Former MLS star's son picks Big West , accessed December 26, 2017
  3. ↑ Getting 2 Know Galaxy II: Forward Ariel Lassiter (English), accessed on December 27, 2017
  4. ↑ Ariel Lassiter Goes Pro at GAIS (English), accessed December 26, 2017
  5. ↑ Ariel Lassiter on the official website of Helsingborgs IF (Swedish), accessed on December 26, 2017
  6. ↑ Ariel Lassiter straffmål mot Varbergs BoIS (Swedish), accessed December 26, 2017
  7. ↑ Former Wolfpack soccer phenom, Ariel Lassiter, signs with LA Galaxy - 2013 Great Oak grad following in Father's Footsteps ( Memento from December 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2017
  8. ↑ Lassiter lämnar Gais - för spel med Ishizaki (Swedish), accessed on December 27, 2017
  9. ↑ Ariel Lassiter impresses in first team debut against Spanish giants FC Barcelona (English), accessed on December 27, 2017
  10. ↑ Match Report: LA Galaxy fall to Houston Dynamo on the road, 3-0 , accessed December 27, 2017
  11. ^ LA Galaxy sign forward Ariel Lassiter to first-team contract , accessed on December 27, 2017
  12. ↑ Ariel Lassiter pleased to tally first career MLS goal: "I'm looking to build from it" | INSIDER , accessed December 27, 2017
  13. ↑ Garcia, Morris impress at U20 scrimmage (English), accessed on December 27, 2017
  14. ↑ US U-23 MNT OPENS UP 2015 WITH 5-2 WIN OVER BOSNIA U-21S , accessed December 27, 2017
  15. ↑ US U-23 MNT FALLS TO DENMARK 1-0 TO WRAP UP EUROPEAN CAMP , accessed on December 27, 2017
  16. ↑ Costa Rica at the Toulon tournament ( Memento from May 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on December 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lassiter, Ariel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lassiter Acuña, Ariel Daniel (full name); Lassiter, Ari (first name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Costa Rican American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Turrialba , Costa Rica