Conor Casey

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Conor Casey
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Conor Casey (2006)
Personnel
Surname Conor Patrick Casey
birthday July 25, 1981
place of birth Dover , New Hampshire ,  USA
size 185 cm
position attack
Juniors
Years station
0000-2000 Portland Pilots
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2000-2001 Borussia Dortmund II 23 (14)
2001-2003 Hannover 96 23 0(8)
2003-2004 Karlsruher SC 30 (14)
2004-2007 1. FSV Mainz 05 40 0(3)
2007 Toronto FC 2 0(0)
2007–2012 Colorado Rapids 119 (50)
2013-2015 Philadelphia Union 70 (21)
2016 Columbus crew 4 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2004-2010 United States 20 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Conor Patrick Casey (born July 25, 1981 in Dover , New Hampshire ) is a retired American football player . The striker last played for the Columbus Crew in the top division of North American football, Major League Soccer (MLS).

Career

Youth and amateur football

Casey grew up in Denver , where he got his first footballing experience at South High School .

In 1999 the center forward went to the University of Portland , where he also studied philosophy for a few semesters and played for the local college team. His first season in college was named Soccer America's Freshman of the Year . In the second he scored 23 goals.

Club career

After playing for the USA at the 2000 Summer Olympics , he moved to Germany to join the Borussia Dortmund amateurs . Via Hannover 96 and Karlsruher SC , he came to 1. FSV Mainz 05 in 2004 , whose promotion to the Bundesliga he had made possible a few days earlier with the winning goal for KSC in the game against their direct competitor Alemannia Aachen . Casey played 40 games for Mainz 05. He scored three goals.

In February 2007 he left the Bundesliga and moved to Toronto FC in the highest North American football league, the Major League Soccer . After two completed games for the Canadians , he was exchanged in return for Riley O'Neill of the Colorado Rapids. In the 2009 season he was the second top scorer in the regular season . In 2010 Casey won the MLS championship with the Colorado Rapids by beating FC Dallas in the MLS Cup 2-1 . He was also named the game's MVP . In 2013 he moved to the Philadelphia Union . He was selected in December 2012 by means of an MLS Re-Entry Draft .

After three seasons, Casey joined the Columbus Crew on January 26, 2016 . Casey ended his career there a year later.

National team

Casey made his debut on March 31, 2004 against Poland . In the match against Cuba in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2005 in July of the same year, he tore a cruciate ligament and had to pause until the beginning of March 2006.

In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup , he secured the national team's participation in the tournament in October 2009 with two goals in the decisive game against Honduras.

Before his first appearances in the United States A team, he played for the United States' U-20 team, with which he also took part in the 2001 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Argentina and reached the round of 16.

Coaching career

Casey became an assistant coach for the Colorado Rapids on January 26, 2017. After Anthony Hudson's dismissal on May 1, 2019, he briefly managed the team's game operations as interim coach.

successes

  • Soccer America's Freshman of the Year: 1999
  • West Coast Conference Co-Player of the Year: 2000
  • MLS champions : 2010
  • MLS Cup MVP : 2010

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Crew SC signs free agent forward Conor Casey . January 26, 2016. Retrieved January 27, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Casey, Conor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Casey, Conor Patrick (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Dover , New Hampshire, USA