Harrison Kennedy (soccer player)

Harrison Kennedy
Personnel
birthday	October 15, 1989
place of birth	Monrovia ,  Liberia
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
	FC Blau-Weiß Linz
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2005-2006	FC Blau-Weiß Linz	20 0(2)
2006	FC Superfund	5 0(0)
2006	→  1. FC Vöcklabruck  (loan)	10 0(3)
2007–	FC Pasching	54 (15)
1 Only league games are given. As of August 25, 2009

Harrison Kennedy (born October 15, 1989 in Monrovia ) is a Liberian football player on the position of a striker who, among other things, has Austrian citizenship . He currently plays for FC Pasching in the third-class Austrian Regional League Middle .

Career

Kennedy began his active career as a football player after playing a few games in one of the youth teams, at the age of only 15 at FC Blau-Weiß Linz in the third-class regional league center. He scored two goals in 20 championship games and was voted “Man of the Match” four times by fans in the 2005/06 season , mainly because of his dribbling skills .

Harrison Kennedy in the jersey of FC Blau-Weiß Linz (February 2005)

In the summer break before the 2006/07 season he was signed by ASKÖ Pasching , which at that time still appeared as "FC Superfund" and was represented in the top division of Austrian football, the Bundesliga . Shortly after his engagement, Kennedy was awarded in August 2006 to the cooperation club 1. FC Vöcklabruck , which had its game operations in the Regionalliga Mitte. At the club from the Upper Austrian district capital Vöcklabruck , he was used in the first round of the new season in a 3-1 win against Union St. Florian . For the club, he completed the first ten championship games of the season until his departure in October of the same year, where he scored three goals. Kennedy scored two goals on August 19, 2006 in the third round in a 2-1 home win over ASK Voitsberg , when he scored in the fifth and 61st minute.

In October 2006, the then FC Superfund coach Didi Constantini brought Kennedy back to Pasching from his loan club at an early stage . On November 11, 2006, less than a month after his 17th birthday, he finally made his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga. In the away game against SK Rapid Wien , Kennedy came on for Gerald Krajic in the 72nd minute . Just nine minutes later, he initiated the preparatory work for Yüksel Sariyar's goal to make it 1-0. The game ended in a 1-1 draw despite the late opening goal when Rapid player Petr Voříšek scored the equalizer in the 92nd minute. In the 2006/07 season, Kennedy came to a total of five short assignments for the provincial club from Pasching.

After relocating the club headquarters to Klagenfurt and appearing under the new identity under the club name SK Austria Kärnten , Kennedy switched to the Pasching successor club, FC Pasching , in the fifth-rate Upper Austrian regional league West in 2007 in a syndicate with SV Wallern from Wallern the Trattnach dared to restart. After Kennedy played in each of the 26 league games in the 2007/08 season and scored eight goals, he was one of the main people responsible for the club's promotion to the fourth-class Upper Austria league , which appears under the sponsorship name "Radio OÖ Liga" . In the team's internal goalscorer list, he was in third place behind Edi Glieder (29 goals) and Ronald Brunmayr (11 goals) with his eight goals. At the end of the season, the club was 21 points ahead of the runner-up.

The 2008/09 season was just as successful for Kennedy and his club as the previous season. This season, the Liberian-born player appeared in 24 of 26 championship games and, with his five goals, finished third behind Roland Brunmayr (29 goals) and Edi Glieder (25 goals) once again. After advancing to the fourth division in the previous season, in the 2008/09 season he was again promoted to the third division regional league middle, the highest amateur division in the country.

successes

• 1 × champion of the fifth class Upper Austrian Regional League West: 2007/08 (promotion to the Upper Austria League)
• 1 × champion of the fourth-class Upper Austria League: 2008/09 (promotion to the Middle Regional League)

Web links

• Harrison Kennedy in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Player profile at fussballoesterreich.at