Darlington Nagbe

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Darlington Nagbe
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Darlington Nagbe on March 7, 2015
Personnel
Surname Darlington J. Nagbe
birthday July 19, 1990
place of birth Monrovia ,  Liberia
size 175 cm
position Midfielder / striker
Juniors
Years station
Lakewood High School
St. Edward High School
2008-2010 Akron Zips
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2007-2010 Cleveland Internationals 18 0(7)
2011-2017 Portland Timbers 171 (24)
2018– Atlanta United 7 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2004 USA U-15
2015– United States 8 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of June 6, 2016

2 As of June 6, 2016

Darlington J. Nagbe (born July 19, 1990 in Monrovia , Liberia ) is a Liberian -American football player on the position of midfielder and striker . He has been part of the major league soccer franchise Atlanta United since December 2017 . He has also been a US citizen since September 2015 and was soon called up by Jürgen Klinsmann for the national soccer team of the United States , for which he made his debut in November 2015.

Club career

Childhood, youth and career start in the USA

Darlington Nagbe was born in the Liberian capital Monrovia on July 19, 1990, the son of Somah and the then professional soccer player Joe Nagbe , who had just made the leap into European soccer. When he was five months old, his mother fled with him and his brother Joe junior from their own country due to the Liberian civil war and then joined the father, who was active in Europe as a professional footballer. He had just come to the then French second division club SAS Épinal via Stade Vallauris and AS Monaco and took his family, which was expanded by another child, the later college basketball player Martha Nagbe, to his other stations in France , Switzerland and Greece with. Before the father ended his career in the United Arab Emirates and Indonesia , the mother, including Darlington and the meanwhile three siblings, Sister Seta was born in 2000, emigrated to the United States and settled around Cleveland in the US State of Ohio .

Growing up in Lakewood , Ohio, he attended Lakewood High School there , followed by St. Edward High School , which he attended after his sophomore year and graduated in 2008. He was then named the United States' 21st Best Recruiter by then RISE Magazine after scoring 18 goals and 10 assists in his senior year in high school. During this time he was a member of the Region II ODP team and the Ohio North ODP team and received the adidas ESP All-Star award in 2007 . In addition, he was a member of the USL-PDL team Cleveland Internationals from 2007, during the game-free time at high school and immediately afterwards at the university . With the team, until they were dissolved in 2010, he was Ohio State Champion four times in a row, although he himself had only made relatively few appearances in the North American fourth division. In his first year he scored two goals in eight championship games and was only in a single game the following year, in which he remained goalless. He then showed offensive strength in 2009 when he contributed as many goals in five league games, followed by four personally goalless games in 2010.

Offensive talent at the University of Akron

After he moved to the University of Akron in 2008 , he was used in his freshman year in all 23 championship games of the Akron Zips , of which he was on the lawn in 14 games and had a total of two goals and three assists. At the end of the game year he received Soccer America All Freshman First Team honors, was All MAC Newcomer of the Year , as well as in the All MAC First Team . Mainly used as a midfielder, he was also used in other positions, including replacing Steve Zakuani as a winger or a striker. With the team he was eliminated during the current season in the regional semifinals against the Northwestern team . The 2009 game year was already much more successful for the native Liberian. After 22 wins from as many championship games, he and the team made it to the final round, the College Cup, without any problems . After a narrow win in extra time over the North Carolina team, the Zips lost 3-2 in extra time in the final of the University of Virginia team after a 0-0 draw in regular time. Nagbe started in all 25 games and had a record of ten goals and three assists by the end of the season, which made him the second best goalscorer and scorer behind Teal Bunbury . In addition, he gave the second most shots at the opposing goal behind Bunbury and scored as many winning goals as the later International. His awards at the end of the game year included elections to the NSCAA All America Second Team , the Soccer America MVP Second Team , and the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Season Second -Team , the All-Great-Lakes-Region-First-Team , the All-MAC-First-Team or various choices for Player of the Week.

The offensive force celebrated an even bigger breakthrough in the following game year 2010 , when the Akron Zips emerged as champions of the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship after a 1-0 final victory over the Louisville Cardinals of the University of Louisville in the College Cup . Over the entire season, Nagbe started again in all 25 championship games, scoring seven goals himself and preparing a further 13 for his teammates. At the end of the day he finished third with 59 points in the team's internal scorer list behind Michael Nanchoff (61 points) and the outstanding Darren Mattocks (93 points), but was able to stand up to the later Thai international Anthony Ampaipitakwong (11 assists) in the assists. prevail in first place. His performance for the team was rewarded with various major awards at the end of the game year. After he was elected College Soccer News Preaseason All-American before the season , after completing the championship he received the Hermann Trophy awarded by the Missouri Athletic Club , which is awarded annually to the best female and male college footballers. Further honors this junior year were the elections to the NSCAA All-America First Team , the All-MAC-First-Team , the College Cup-All-Tournament-Team , and the MAC-Player-of-the-Year . In addition, he was voted NSCAA National Player of the Week and MAC Player of the Week on September 7, 2010 for his achievements .

Moved to the Portland Timbers

As a Generation Adidas player, Nagbe was the first official pick of the newly founded Portland Timbers franchise, which is taking part in Major League Soccer for the first time, at the 2011 MLS SuperDraft . The Timbers chose him as the second pick in the first round behind the US-Mexican junior international Omar Salgado , who was the first pick to transfer to the Vancouver Whitecaps , in the team. The player, who at that time still had a P-1 visa, was sidelined in the first few weeks of the 2011 game year and only made his debut in the top soccer league in North America at the beginning of April 2011. He was substituted on on April 2, 2011 in the 1-1 draw against New England Revolution , the first point reached in the early MLS history of the franchise, from the 66th minute of play for Jeremy Hall . Nagbe scored his first goal, who at that time was still completely healing a sports hernia , exactly three months later, on July 2, 2011, in a 2-1 defeat by Sporting Kansas City . The goal, in which he assumed a defense by Jimmy Nielsen volley, held the ball up twice before hitting volley in the top left corner while standing on the edge of the penalty area, was even scored as Goal of the Year ( MLS Goal of the Year Award ). By the end of the season, the native Liberian had made 28 championship appearances in which he scored two goals and presented another three for his teammates. His first competitive goal was ultimately named Timbers' Play of the Year , among other things . In addition to his professional appearances, Nagbe also played four championship games for the reserve team with play in the then MLS Reserve League , in which he was used in four games and contributed two hits and one assist.

Regular player by goal of the year

After he had scored the goal of the year in the previous game year, he was also used as a regular player in the offensive area in 2012 . He played in 31 of his 33 championship appearances from the start and had a record of six goals and one assist by the end of the season, when his team was only third from bottom with 34 points from just as many games. He was behind the Scottish National player Kris Boyd (7 goals) second top scorer of the team. After he had proposed marriage to his long-time girlfriend Felicia Houtz in the summer of 2011, he married her on December 15, 2012. In the 2013 game year , Nagbe was on the grass in all 34 championship games from the start and with nine goals was next to Will Johnson and Ryan Johnson with just as many goals and thus one goal behind Diego Valeri one of the team's top scorers. As Western Conference champions, the Portland Timbers achieved third place with 56 points in the final standings behind Sporting Kansas City (57 points) and the New York Red Bulls (58 points), which is a starting place in the group stage of the CONCACAF Champions League 2014/15 meant. The Timbers were also successful in the 2013 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup , the US soccer cup. Darlington Nagbe was next to Andrew Jean-Baptiste only one of two Timbers players who were used in all four competitive games, until they were eliminated in the semifinals against Real Salt Lake (1: 2). The Liberian, who received a green card in 2012 , started working for his former coach at the Akron Zips, Caleb Porter , who took over the chief position after the departure of John Spencer and interim coach Gavin Wilkinson , from the 2013 game year . After the end of the season, the five-time player of the week was voted Timbers Players' Player of the Year by his fellow players for his achievements and was also honored with the MLS Fair Player Award . Furthermore, he was one of the nominees for participation in the MLS All-Star Game , but was not used in the end.

In the group phase of the CONCACAF Champions League 2014/15, the team was drawn into a group with CD Olimpia from Honduras and Alpha United from Guyana . There the Timbers and Olimpia achieved the same final result (nine points from three wins and one defeat), but Olimpia was able to prevail in the head-to-head comparison of the away goals scored and moved into the knockout round . Nagbe was used for a few minutes in both Champions League games against the Honduran representative. In the second season under Porter, the native Liberian had to move back a bit from his attacking position and was mainly used as a flank giver on the wing or various other midfield positions, with one goal and seven assists in 32 of 34 possible league appearances. He reached a comfortable place in the middle of the table with the team with eleventh place and also made it to the quarter-finals in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2014 , in which the team lost 3-1 to Seattle Sounders FC . Darlington Nagbe, who was named player of the week twice in the league, was also able to register once as a goalscorer in the cup competition. In the 2015 game he found his offensive strength again and made 33 of 34 games in the regular season, scoring five goals and providing as many assists. The final game of the season against Colorado Rapids , when Nagbe scored two goals in a 4-1 home win and prepared another for Jorge Villafaña , is remarkable . With the team he reached fifth place in the standings, while in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2015 they were eliminated early in the second game in the fifth round.

Atlanta United

On December 13, 2017, Atlanta United announced the signing of Nagbes. As a transfer fee, 1.05 million US dollars "allocation money" was agreed. The transfer fee may increase by an additional $ 600,000 due to performance-based bonuses.

National team career

After Nagbe was already in the U-15 pool of the US junior national teams during his high school years, with Nagbe's ongoing successes, calls from his own fans were loud for Nagbe to be granted US citizenship as soon as possible. After teammates and coaches also urged an early award, Darlington Nagbe finally received the citizenship of the United States on September 10, 2015 and thus also became Jürgen Klinsmann , coach of the US national soccer team , who had been watching the player for a long time and also for one fast processing for the granting of citizenship was tangible. A little more than a month later, Timbers head coach Caleb Porter announced that Nagbe was in contact with Klinsmann and that a first international match was only a matter of time. After Klinsmann brought him into a 33-man squad for two qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup shortly afterwards , Nagbe won the first qualifying game, a 6-1 win over St. Vincent and the Grenadines on November 13, 2015, from 64 .Minute played for Fabian Johnson ; at the same time, Matt Miazga made his debut in the team as a replacement for Geoff Cameron . Also in the second qualifying game, a 0-0 draw against Trinidad and Tobago , Nagbe was used in the second half; this time from the 68th minute of play for Tim Ream . Nagbe scored his first goal for the USA on May 25, 2016 in his sixth international appearance, a 1-0 friendly win over Ecuador .

Most important successes

with the Akron Zips
with Atlanta United
Individual successes

Web links

Commons : Darlington Nagbe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Darlington Nagbe says he's open to USMNT and long-term stay with Portland Timbers , accessed October 27, 2015
  2. ↑ Martha Nagbe on the official website of the Notre Dame Falcons (English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  3. ↑ SENIOR NAGBE EARNS FULL RIDE TO PLAY BALL AT NOTRE DAME COLLEGE , accessed on October 27, 2015
  4. ↑ a b St. Edward grad Darlington Nagbe will pass as he leads Akron men's soccer team into national semis , accessed October 27, 2015
  5. ↑ 2007 Cleveland Internationals stats ( Memento of October 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (WebArchive; English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  6. ↑ 2008 Cleveland Internationals stats ( January 10, 2015 memento in the Internet Archive ) (WebArchive; English), accessed October 27, 2015
  7. ↑ 2009 Cleveland Internationals stats ( Memento of the original from September 29, 2011 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. (WebArchive; English), accessed October 27, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uslsoccer.com
  8. ↑ 2010 Cleveland Internationals stats ( January 2, 2014 memento in the Internet Archive ) (WebArchive; English), accessed October 27, 2015
  9. ↑ Cumulative Season Statistics 2008 ( memento of the original from September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 October 27, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gozips.com
  10. ↑ a b Cumulative Season Statistics 2009 ( memento of the original from September 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 October 27, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gozips.com
  11. ↑ Cumulative Season Statistics 2010 ( memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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 October 27, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gozips.com
  12. ↑ # 6 NAGBE, Darlington  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 27, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gozips.com  
  13. ↑ Darlington Nagbe wins Hermann Trophy , accessed October 27, 2015
  14. ↑ 2011 MLS SUPERDRAFT (English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  15. ↑ 24 Under 24: The making of Timbers star Darlington Nagbe (English), accessed October 27, 2015
  16. ↑ Nagbe ready to prove himself in Portland - Proof of P-1 visa (English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  17. ↑ Timbers tie Revs to earn first ever MLS point ( Memento from April 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (WebArchive; English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  18. ↑ RECAP: Sporting still running strong, edge Timbers 2-1 ( Memento from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (WebArchive; English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  19. ↑ Timbers' Nagbe wins goal of the year  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed October 27, 2015@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.kgw.com  
  20. ↑ Timbers' Darlington Nagbe scores with surprise marriage proposal , accessed October 27, 2015
  21. ↑ Felicia and Darlington - Our Wedding ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 October 27, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / feliciaanddarlington.ourwedding.com
  22. ↑ Darlington Nagbe Gets US Green Card , accessed October 27, 2015
  23. ↑ Timbers formally introduce new head coach Caleb Porter at JELD-WEN Field (WebCache; English), accessed on October 27, 2015
  24. ↑ Portland Timbers Darlington Nagbe named 2013 MLS Xbox Individual Fair Play Award winner , accessed October 27, 2015
  25. ↑ Portland Timbers 4, Colorado Rapids 1 | MLS Match Recap , accessed October 27, 2015
  26. ↑ https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/12/13/atlanta-united-make-record-breaking-move-midfielder-darlington-nagbe
  27. ↑ Darlington Nagbe is now a US citizen - what happens now, and where might he fit into the USMNT? (English), accessed October 27, 2015
  28. ↑ Caleb Porter: Jurgen Klinsmann wants to call up Darlington Nagbe to US men's national soccer team , accessed on October 27, 2015
  29. ↑ Portland Timbers' Darlington Nagbe pleased that Jurgen Klinsmann has asked about him , accessed October 27, 2015
  30. ↑ Klinsmann Calls 23 Players for First Two Matches of 2018 World Cup Qualifying Campaign ( Memento of the original from November 8, 2015 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 on November 21, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  31. ↑ US MNT vs. St. Vincent & The Grenadines (6: 1) (English), accessed November 21, 2015
  32. ↑ US MNT vs. Trinidad & Tobago (0-0) (English), accessed November 21, 2015
  33. ↑ USA DEFEATS ECUADOR IN COPA WARM-UP THANKS TO NAGBE WINNER . US Soccer. May 26, 2016. Retrieved May 31, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Nagbe, Darlington
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nagbe, Darlington J. (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Liberian-American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Monrovia , Liberia