Haji Wright

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Haji Wright
Personnel
Surname Haji Amir Wright
birthday March 27, 1998
place of birth Los Angeles ,  California , USA
size 193 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
2012-2015 LA Galaxy
2016-2017 FC Schalke 04
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015 New York Cosmos 3 0(0)
2015 New York Cosmos B 4 0(5)
2017 FC Schalke 04 0 0(0)
2017-2018 →  SV Sandhausen  (loan) 15 0(1)
2018-2019 FC Schalke 04 II 22 (14)
2018-2019 FC Schalke 04 7 0(1)
2019– VVV-Venlo 22 0(0)
2019– Jong VVV 6 0(5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2013 USA U15 10 0(2)
2013-2015 USA U17 34 (27)
2015 USA U18 4 0(0)
2016 USA U19 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: end of season 2019/20

Haji Amir Wright (born March 27, 1998 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American football player on the position of striker , who is under contract with VVV-Venlo in the Netherlands . Wright can be used variably in the offensive. He prefers to act as a center forward , but can also play on both wings . He played in 50 games for US youth national teams.

Club career

Wright joined the LA Galaxy youth academy in 2012 and took part in a trial training session at the German soccer club FC Schalke 04 in the summer of 2014 . On March 30, 2015, he signed a contract with New York Cosmos . His debut came on May 28, 2015 in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup in a 3-0 win over Jersey Express . There he made an assist. He made his first appearance in the North American Soccer League on July 26, 2015, when he came on as a substitute for the game against Indy Eleven . Two more games followed. In this competition, however, Wright remained without a goal participation. During this time he also played for New York Cosmos B in the National Premier Soccer League . At the end of the 2015 season he left New York Cosmos.

In 2016, FC Schalke 04 signed Wright as an A-youth player. He received the right to play on April 15, 2016. For the 2017/18 season , his contract, which ran until June 30, 2020, was converted into a professional contract and he was promoted to the squad of the first team with which he completed the preparation.

In order to gain match practice, Wright was loaned to the second division club SV Sandhausen for the 2017/18 season. In total, he was used in 15 league games in which he scored a goal.

Wright returned to FC Schalke 04 for the 2018/19 season and has since been part of the squad of the second team that competes in the fifth-class Oberliga Westfalen . After professional team strikers Breel Embolo and Mark Uth were injured, Wright was pulled up by Domenico Tedesco in November 2018 in the first-team squad. On November 24, 2018, he made his debut as a substitute in the Bundesliga . On December 19, 2018, Wright scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 2-1 home defeat against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in his fourth Bundesliga appearance. Wright made 7 Bundesliga appearances (one goal) and 22 league appearances (14 goals) in this season. With the second team he became champions and rose to the Regionalliga West .

For the 2019/20 season, Wright moved to the Dutch first division club VVV-Venlo on a free transfer , where he signed a one-year contract with an option for another season. The American played 22 league games (no goal, one assist), a cup game and six games for the VVV youth team (5 goals). Following the season, which Venlo ended in thirteenth place in the table and which had been canceled prematurely due to the COVID-19 pandemic , the club announced that they had not made use of the extension option .

National team

Wright took part in courses for the US U14 national team in 2012 and played for the U15 national team in 2013. With the U17 national team , he took part in the 2015 CONCACAF U17 Championship , where he qualified for the 2015 U17 World Championship in Chile . There he was used in all three group games, but remained goalless. He couldn't prevent his team from being eliminated early in the group stage. He made his first appearance for the U18 national team on July 11, 2015 in a friendly against Uruguay.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015: List of Players . FIFAdata.com, October 28, 2015, accessed on December 31, 2017, p. 24 (PDF; 558 kB).
  2. ↑ a b WAZ : Schalke brings US talent Haji Wright for the U19 , accessed on January 6, 2016.
  3. ↑ Cosmos Sign Striker Haji Wright nycosmos.com, March 30, 2015
  4. ↑ Cosmos Announce First Roster Moves Following Championship 2015 Season nycosmos.com, December 3, 2015
  5. ↑ FC Schalke 04.de : Haji Wright is entitled to play on April 15, 2016, accessed on April 23, 2016.
  6. ↑ Haji Wright: I live my dream , schalke04.de, accessed on December 31, 2017.
  7. ↑ a b schalke04.de : Haji Wright is on loan to Sandhausen , August 11, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2017.
  8. ↑ Christian Heidel: We proactively approached our dream players , schalke04.de, July 1, 2018, accessed on July 1, 2018.
  9. ↑ Schalke is annoyed with test match bankruptcy in St. Petersburg , nrz.de, November 18, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018.
  10. ↑ Mathenia patzt - and Skrzybski like Caligiuri turn up , kicker.de, November 24, 2018, accessed on November 25, 2018.
  11. ↑ Schalke too harmless - Bayer fights for narrow success , kicker.de, December 19, 2018, accessed on December 19, 2018.
  12. ↑ VVV commits Haji Wright , vvv-venlo.nl, July 12, 2019, accessed on July 12, 2019.
  13. ↑ VVV-Venlo thanks vertrekkers , vvv-venlo.nl, accessed on May 27, 2020 (Dutch)
  14. ^ New York Cosmos .com: Haji Wright player profile
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Haji
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wright, Haji Amir (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , United States