Daniel Gordon (soccer player)

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Daniel Gordon
Daniel Gordon.jpg
Gordon in the Borussia Dortmund jersey (2007)
Personnel
birthday January 16, 1985
place of birth Dortmund ,  Germany
size 192 cm
position Central defender
Juniors
Years station
0000-2000 Borussia Dortmund
2000-2004 VfL Bochum
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2004-2006 VfL Bochum II 62 0(6)
2006-2009 Borussia Dortmund 8 0(0)
2006-2009 Borussia Dortmund II 69 (12)
2009-2011 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 48 0(7)
2011–2012 FSV Frankfurt 3 0(0)
2011–2012 FSV Frankfurt II 10 0(3)
2012-2016 Karlsruher SC 97 0(6)
2016-2017 SV Sandhausen 26 0(1)
2017– Karlsruher SC 104 (10)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2013-2015 Jamaica 5 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

Daniel Gordon (born January 16, 1985 in Dortmund ) is a German - Jamaican football player in the position of central defender . From 2013 to 2015 he was a Jamaican national soccer player .

Career

society

Daniel Gordon was born and raised in Dortmund to an English father of Jamaican origin and a German mother. He started playing football in the youth department of Borussia Dortmund and moved to VfL Bochum in the youth division , with whom he was twice a West German A youth champion and once a German runner-up.

In 2004 and 2005 he played in the second team of VfL before moving back to BVB at the beginning of the 2006/07 season, for whom he also played in the second team. Under the coaches Jürgen Röber and Thomas Doll , Gordon trained with the professionals in the second half of the 2006/07 season. He made his Bundesliga debut as a contract amateur on April 21, 2007 in the game against Hertha BSC , when he came into the game for Tinga in the 90th minute . In May 2007 he signed a professional contract with BVB until 2009.

In the 2009/10 and 2010/11 seasons Daniel Gordon played for Rot-Weiß Oberhausen in the 2nd Bundesliga and played a total of 48 league games in which he scored seven goals. RWO was relegated to the 3rd division.

For the 2011/12 season, Gordon moved to FSV Frankfurt in the 2nd Bundesliga . He signed a two-year contract with the Hessians. Gordon could not fight for a regular place and came in the course of the season only to one game over the full season and two short appearances. At the end of the season, the FSV prematurely terminated the contract with Gordon. He then moved to the second division relegated Karlsruher SC . With the KSC he succeeded as a regular player in the third division season 2012/13 as a master of direct promotion.

In May 2016 he signed a two-year contract with an option with SV Sandhausen after his expiring contract with KSC had not been extended. After only one season, Gordon returned to Karlsruher SC, which had meanwhile been relegated to the 3rd division. There he received a two-year contract. There he soon became a regular defender again alongside David Pisot and was thus part of the best defense of the third division 2017/18 season with 29 goals conceded, with which KSC reached third place in relegation. There they failed, however, at FC Erzgebirge Aue . The following season Gordon played trunk again and only missed two games due to suspensions. At the end of the season, the KSC was promoted to the second division.

National team

On June 4, 2013, Gordon completed his first international game for the Jamaican national soccer team against Mexico . In the 1-0 defeat, Gordon was in the starting line-up. He is eligible to play for the national team because his paternal grandparents emigrated from Jamaica to Great Britain.

Style of play

Gordon is considered strong at the head and benefits from strengths in positional play, with which he compensates for speed deficits. In defensive behavior, he shows calm on the ball, which is sometimes associated with greater risks of losing the ball to the opposing striker. His former teammate Dirk Orlishausen described his style of play as follows:

"Gordi has great abilities to read the attacking game of the opponent, to position himself perfectly with a precise eye and to conquer the ball in infight with a determination to act and viciousness. And when Gordi jumps for the header, he is as stable in the air as an artistic gymnast on the horizontal bar "

- Dirk Orlishausen

successes

Karlsruher SC

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FSV Frankfurt terminates contract with Daniel Gordon , message on the homepage of FSV Frankfurt from June 9, 2012.
  2. ^ Daniel Gordon next KSC newcomer ( memento from June 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), message on the homepage of the Karlsruher SC from June 9, 2012.
  3. ↑ Daniel Gordon returns to KSC. KSC press release of June 23, 2017, accessed on the same day.
  4. ↑ Jamaica 0-1 Mexico. (No longer available online.) In: The Jamaica Football Federation. June 4, 2013, archived from the original on October 21, 2013 ; accessed on July 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ RevierSport 48/2013, p. 24 f.
  6. ↑ Chapeau, Daniel Gordon , liga-zwei.de, accessed on October 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Gordon, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Jamaican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund , Germany