David Ochoa

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David Ochoa
Personnel
Surname David Ochoa Ramírez
birthday January 16, 2001
place of birth Oxnard , California ,  USA
size 188 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
2016– Real Salt Lake
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2018– →  Real Monarchs  (farm team) 4 (0)
2019– Real Salt Lake 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA U14
2016 Mexico U16
2016-2017 USA U16
USA U17
2017– USA U18
2018– USA U20
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 27, 2019

2 As of August 30, 2018

David Ochoa Ramírez (born January 16, 2001 in Oxnard , California ) is an American football player in the position of goalkeeper .

Club career

David Ochoa was born on January 16, 2001 in the city of Oxnard, California. At the age of 15, he made the leap to the Arizona Academy of the Major League Soccer franchise Real Salt Lake , where he played primarily in the U-15 / U-16 team in the 2016/17 season. After 15 appearances in the regular season, he then came to four play-off appearances. At the time , Ochoa, who was living in Casa Grande , Arizona, moved to the main academy of Real Salt Lake and appeared there alternately for the U-16 / U-17 team and the U-18 / U-19 team . In the 2017/18 season he played a total of 14 missions for the U-16 / U-17 team, as well as 17 appearances, 13 of them in the regular season, for the U-18 / U-19 team mentioned. Selection.

Because of his performance, he was soon introduced to the Real Salt Lake farm team , the Real Monarchs . On April 22, 2018, he made his professional debut in the now second-rate United Soccer League (USL) in a 2-0 away defeat by the Tampa Bay Rowdies , when coach Mark Briggs used him in goal for the full 90 minutes. In the rest of the season he was unused on the bench in two other league games, but spent most of the time in the aforementioned academy teams.

In August 2018 he completed trial training sessions at Manchester United and at that time also had other trial training sessions at Spanish and German clubs ahead of him.

For the 2019 season , Ochoa was added to Real Salt Lake 's MLS squad . He also continues to play for the Real Monarchs in the USL Championship .

National team career

Ochoa gained his first experience in a national team of the US Football Association in the US U-14 team . Since he would also be eligible to play for the national teams of the Mexican Football Association due to his Mexican origins , he was brought into the Mexican U-16 national team in 2016 . At this level he also worked for the USA and as such took part in a training camp and tournament under coach Shaun Tsakiris in December 2016 in Bradenton , Florida , and in February 2017 in a training camp in Argentina . Under the U-18 coach Omid Namazi and Tsakiris as assistant coach, Ochoa then took part in the tournament of Montaigu , a U-16 tournament for national teams, in April .

After joining the United States' U-17 program early in 2017 , U-17 national coach John Hackworth also brought him to the US squad to prepare for the U-17 World Cup . However , Ochoa did not belong to the final 21-man squad that took part in the World Cup finals in India . In November 2017, the then 16-year-old made it into the US U-18 squad for a training camp at the United States Olympic Training Center in Chula Vista , California. The following year, he and the team took part in two friendlies against their colleagues from Costa Rica in February, as well as in the Václav Ježek memorial tournament in August. At this tournament, Ochoa contributed significantly to the performance of the Americans. The US U-18 national team won the title for the third time in the tournament, which has been held since 1994 , after beating the Japanese U-18 national team 4-2 on penalties . Ochoa saved the first and third penalty shot by the Japanese.

In the same year, Ochoa also made it into the United States' U-20 squad and in May was part of a 21-man squad that played in two friendly internationals in Honduras .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rowdies keep home record perfect with win , accessed on August 30, 2018
  2. ↑ RSL Academy Closes Out Season (English), accessed on August 30, 2018
  3. ↑ Real Salt Lake Signs RSL Academy Duo to Homegrown Contracts , accessed on January 2, 2019
  4. ↑ Se concentró la Selección Nacional de México Sub-16 (Spanish), accessed August 30, 2018
  5. ↑ U-16 BNT CLOSES OUT 2016 PROGRAMMING AT IMG CUP , accessed on August 30, 2018
  6. ↑ U-16 BNT HEAD COACH TSAKIRIS CALLS 21 PLAYERS FOR ARGENTINA TRAINING CAMP , accessed on August 30, 2018
  7. ↑ NAMAZI CALLS 20 PLAYERS FOR U-16 TOURNAMENT OF MONTAIGU , accessed on August 30, 2018
  8. ↑ HACKWORTH INVITES 32 PLAYERS TO 2017 U-17 MNT SPRING RESIDENCY , accessed August 30, 2018
  9. ↑ HACKWORTH CALLS 37 PLAYERS FOR U-17 WORLD CUP QUALIFYING PREP MATCHES VS. JAPAN IN BRADENTON , accessed August 30, 2018
  10. ↑ HACKWORTH NAMES USA ROSTER FOR 2017 FIFA U-17 WORLD CUP IN INDIA , accessed August 30, 2018
  11. ↑ U-18 MNT CLOSES OUT 2017 WITH EARLY START TO NEW PLAYER CYCLE , accessed on August 30, 2018
  12. ↑ NAMAZI CALLS IN 24 PLAYERS FOR PAIR OF U-18 MATCHES VS. COSTA RICA , accessed August 30, 2018
  13. ↑ a b c U-18 MNT WINS THIRD VACLAV JEZEK TOURNAMENT AFTER PK TRIUMPH OVER JAPAN (English), accessed on August 30, 2018
  14. ↑ U-20 MNT HEADS TO HONDURAS FOR TWO MATCHES VS. LOS CATRACHOS , accessed August 30, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Ochoa, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ochoa Ramírez, David (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH January 16, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH Oxnard , California , United States