Cody Laurendi

Cody Laurendi
Cody Laurendi in 2010
Personnel
Surname	Cody Matthew Laurendi
birthday	August 15, 1988
place of birth	Melbourne , Florida ,  USA
size	191 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
	Space Coast United
	Satellite Beach SC
	Melbourne Eau Gallie / MEGU SC
2002-2006	Eau Gallie High School
2005-2008	Orlando FC QPR
2006-2007	South Georgia College
2008-2009	Heidelberg Academic and Soccer Academy
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2008-2009	RRFC Montegnée	5 (0)
2010–	Puerto Rico Islanders FC	5 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 26, 2012

Cody Matthew Laurendi (born August 15, 1988 in Melbourne , Florida ) is an American football goalkeeper who is currently the substitute goalkeeper for Puerto Rico Islanders FC with play in the North American Soccer League (NASL), the second-highest division in North American football , under Contract stands.

Career

Career start in Florida

Born in Melbourne, Florida in 1988, Laurendi discovered his love for football at the age of four. At a young age he came to the Brevard Youth Soccer League , mainly through his father , where he is still engaged as a referee for youth games. There he worked for the youth football clubs Space Coast United , Satellite Beach SC and Melbourne Eau Gallie / MEGU SC and was mostly used as a striker or goalkeeper. In 2002 he finally came to Eau Gallie High School , which was already known for its sports department in the 1980s, and was used in the school teams in soccer and American football , where he held the position of kicker . In parallel, he played from 2005 for the youth club Orlando FC QPR , where he was finally in use until 2007 and 2008. Already in 2006 he finished his high school time and was still in his last year at the Brevard County All-Star Game for the MVP award since it was used as a field player, while four times came to scoring. In the same year, Laurendi began studying at South Georgia College , where he was a member until 2007. At the South Georgia Tigers , the name of the college's sports department, he was selected in his first year for outstanding performance in the Georgia Junior College All Tournament Team .

Via Belgium to Puerto Rico

After his rather short time college Laurendi came over the former English international David Bardsley to Belgium , where he was this to Paul Topping the owner of the Belgian fourth division RRFC Montegnée of Saint-Nicolas brought. At the same time, he was accepted at the Heidelberg Academic and Soccer Academy in Liège in the same year , where he was finally employed until December 2009. Also at RRFC Montegnée Laurendi was active as a goalkeeper for 18 months until his return to the United States in December 2009, where he made five championship appearances in the predominantly international team. After returning home, he trained for several months with Bardsley and his under-19 team in Seminole County and took part in a trial training session with Puerto Rico Islanders FC in March 2010 , which eventually brought him along with two other junior goalkeepers from over 50 applicants Team.

With the professional team, he then signed a contract with a term of seven months and started playing with the team a little more than a month later in the short-lived USSF Division 2 Professional League , which at that time represented the second highest division in the country. In the professional squad he was classified as the second goalkeeper behind the number 1 Bill Gaudet ; the other two young goalkeepers, in contrast, had to leave the club before the start of the season. Laurendi came to his first professional league use, after he had already spent numerous games on the bench, on July 15, 2010, when he guarded the goal of his team for the full 90 minutes in the 0-0 away draw against the Tampa Bay Rowdies . By the end of the 2010 season, the 22-year-old played in other league games and was also part of the team's squad when it took part in the 2010/11 CONCACAF Champions League and was eliminated from the group stage. At the end of the 2010 game year, the team was allowed to call itself champions of the USSF Division 2 Professional League after having passed the playoffs. Nothing is known about a possible contract extension with the Puerto Rican club. For the 2012 season Laurendi received a new contract from his employer Puerto Rico Islanders FC .

successes

• 1 × Champion of the USSF Division 2 Professional League : 2010

Web links

• Cody Laurendi in the database of weltfussball.de
• Cody Laurendi on the website of the USSF Division 2 Professional League (English)
• Report on Cody Laurendi (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Orlando FC Alumni ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2010 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 December 29, 2010 
2. ↑ Tampa Bay FC - Puerto Rico Islanders (0-0) (English), accessed December 29, 2010
3. ↑ FC Tampa Bay Draws 0-0 with Puerto Rico Islanders ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2010 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 December 29, 2010