Earnie Stewart

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Earnie Stewart
Personnel
Surname Earnest Stewart
birthday March 28, 1969
place of birth Veghel ,  Netherlands
size 175 cm
position Striker
Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
UDI'19
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1990 VVV Venlo 62 (15)
1990-1996 Willem II Tilburg 170 (49)
1996-2003 NAC Breda 199 (50)
2003-2004 DC United 47 0(4)
2004-2005 VVV Venlo 6 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1990-2004 United States 101 (17)
1 Only league games are given.

Earnest "Earnie" Stewart (born March 28, 1969 in Veghel , Netherlands ) is an American - Dutch football player . He played from 1990 to 2004 as a midfielder in the USA national team .

biography

Stewart, a son of the African-American soldier Earnie Stewart and his Dutch wife Annemien, was born and raised in the Netherlands. He began his active career in 1988 with VVV Venlo and switched to Willem II Tilburg in 1990 . In late 1990 he had his first game for the US national soccer team against Portugal .

In his first season with Willem II, he was the third best scorer in the Eerste Divisie with 17 goals . 49 goals followed in six years. In the meantime he has developed into a regular player for the US national team and played all four FIFA World Cup games from the start in 1994 . In the game against Colombia he scored the winning goal to make it 2-1.

From 1996 Stewart played for six seasons at NAC Breda . The club was relegated to the second division in 1999 and rose again in 2000. While at NAC, he played in all of the US team's games at the 1998 and 2002 World Cups .

In January 2003 he left the Netherlands to play in Major League Soccer . He was named as a result of the Entry Draft D.C. United , with whom he won the MLS Cup in its sophomore season. He scored four goals in the regular season and one playoff goal and left DC after the 2004 season. He returned to VVV Venlo, where he became technical director in 2005 after retiring from professional sport.

Stewart is one of eight US players who made his 100th international game at the 2004 World Cup (qualifier against Grenada). His 111 professional goals in the Netherlands make him the best American goalscorer in international club matches. He was named US Soccer Athlete of the Year in 2001.

On May 14, 2006 he became Technical Director at NAC Breda. Since June 2010 he has been Technical Director at AZ Alkmaar .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Former USMNT player Earnie Stewart named technical director at AZ Alkmaar ( Memento from August 7, 2010 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

predecessor Office successor
Chris Armas USA Footballer of the Year
2001 		Brad Friedel
personal data
SURNAME Stewart, earnie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stewart, earnest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Veghel , Netherlands