Hughan Gray

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Hughan Gray
Personnel
Surname Hughan Edwards Gray
birthday March 25, 1987
place of birth Jamaica
size 180 cm
position Midfielder and defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008–2012 Sporting Central Academy
2012-2015 Waterhouse FC 105 (13)
2015– Vaasan PS 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2014– Jamaica 11 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 20, 2015

2 As of December 20, 2015

Hughan Edwards Gray (born March 25, 1987 in Jamaica ) is a Jamaican football player on the position of midfielder and defender .

Since the end of August 2015 he has been in the squad of the Finnish first division club Vaasan PS . A year earlier, Winfried Schäfer had called him up for the first time in the Jamaican national soccer team and has played in eleven international matches to date (as of December 20, 2015).

Club career

Time at Sporting Central Academy

Hughan Gray was born on March 25, 1987 in Jamaica; Little is known about his early footballing career; so he is said to be, among other things, a graduate of Denbigh High School , where he was also active as a football player, in Clarendon Parish . In 2008, at the age of 21, he joined the men's football department of the Jamaican first division club Sporting Central Academy, which was founded in 2000 . For the team, which had only made it to the top class in June 2007, he was now in the regular formation and was tenth of a total of twelve teams that season . In 2009/10 , the team barely missed a relegation, was only eleventh in the densely staggered final table with one point ahead of the last and only just managed to stay in the relegation play-offs.

After finishing ninth in the 2010/11 season , the midfielder and defender and his club barely survived the five relegation rounds. The team from Clarendon Parish could not prevail against the competition in the following season 2011/12 either, with a ninth place again occupied a place in the bottom third of the table and once again survived the relegation unscathed. Gray himself was used in 18 league games that season and scored one goal for Sporting Central Academy. During this season, the 1.85 m tall player moved to league rivals Waterhouse FC and made 13 league appearances for them, in which he himself remained goalless and with the team in the final table with 60 points third place behind runner-up Boys' Town ( 66 points) and champions Portmore United (67 points).

Runner-up and cup winners with Waterhouse

In the following season , Gray advanced to the core force of the Jamaican top club and was used in 36 of a total of 38 league games that had been possible, with three hits. After he finished third with the team after 33 rounds of regular time with the same number of points as second and fourth, he finished second with the team in the five rounds of the championship play-offs and was thus seven points behind on Harbor View FC runner-up in the Jamaican National Premier League. Also in the JFF Champions Cup of the 2012/13 season , the team around the defensive Gray was able to assert itself and defeated the capital city club Tivoli Gardens FC in the final after a 2-2 after the regular game and the extra time with 3-1 on penalties. In the 2013/14 season , the club was able to complete the championship play-offs again as runner-up, this time behind Montego Bay United . The regular season ended the team with nine points ahead of Harbor View even in first place in the table. Throughout the season, Hughan Gray made 29 league appearances and five goals.

As runner-up in the 2012/13 season, he took part with Waterhouse in the 2014 CFU Club Championship , which was to determine the Caribbean participants in the 2014/15 CONCACAF Champions League . There the team was unbeaten with three wins and a goal difference of 10: 1 group winners of Group 2 and thus qualified for the Champions League finals after the actual qualifying round after the loss of the Haitian club Valencia FC from the resulting problems and from The remaining three clubs were canceled for cost reasons. In the Champions League, the team was eliminated after four games, all of which Hughan Gray played through and scored the goal to 2-1 in the final game against MLS franchise DC United , runners-up behind the aforementioned team from the United States from the current tournament out.

After the re-runner-up in the 2013/14 season, he was also seeded with the team for the 2015/16 CFU Club Championship , and due to the team's voluntary withdrawal, he didn't play a single game in this qualifying tournament for the 2015/16 CONCACAF Champions League . In the National Premier League 2014/15 , which ended at the beginning of June 2015 , in which Gray made 29 league appearances and again five goals, Waterhouse FC again ranked runner-up in the regular season, but had to do so after being eliminated in the semifinals of the champions play-offs. Before he could start the new 2015/16 season with the team , he switched to the Finnish first division club Vaasan PS at the end of August 2015 , which is known for having numerous Jamaican and US players in its ranks. After joining the club during the 2015 season , Gray was on the bench for the first time in a competitive match on August 30, 2015 in a 3-0 away defeat by Helsingfors IFK , but was not yet used in this encounter.

Sluggish breakthrough in Finland

He then came to the club, with which he had signed a contract until the end of the season and with the option of a further year, on September 14, 2015 in a 1-1 away draw against Inter Turku to his competitive debut when he was over the full game was on the lawn. In the following four games he sat on the bench in three without a stake and was no longer in the official line-up of the club from the western Finnish port city of Vaasa in the final rounds from mid-October . He finished the 2015 game year with the team in tenth of twelve places and thus only just missed relegation or direct relegation. Whether the club let the Jamaican's contract expire or pulled the option was not disclosed; however, due to the number of Gray missions, it can be assumed that the contract was not extended any further.

National team career

National team debut and Caribbean champion 2014

In 2014, the strong Jamaican league player was called up by national coach Winfried Schäfer for the first time in the Jamaican national soccer team and made his debut on March 2, 2014 in a 2-0 win in a friendly against Barbados when he played for US legionary Alvas from the 86th minute Powell came out onto the lawn. After he made four more short appearances in friendly internationals by October of the same year, including a clear 8-0 defeat against France when he played through one half, he was part of the 23-strong Jamaican squad from November 2014 onwards Caribbean Championship 2014 participated in front of their own audience. He was next to Craig Foster , Upston Edwards , Nicholay Finlayson , Romario Campbell and Kemar Lawrence , one of six players who belonged to a Jamaican first division club at that time. After he played as a substitute for Alvas Powell in the first game, a 1-1 draw against Martinique on November 12, 2014 and only came onto the field shortly before the end, Gray, who was mainly used as a right-back, was already in the following games Regular force arrived in the national team. After a 3-0 win over Antigua and Barbuda and a 2-0 win over the Haitian national soccer team , the Jamaicans around the 27-year-old defensive player won the final against record champions Trinidad and Tobago on November 18, 2014 , after a 0: 0 draw after the end of regular time, with 4: 3 on penalties.

Substitute players and bench presses from 2015

After the sixth Caribbean championship title of Reggae Boyz , the nickname of the Jamaican national soccer team, Hughan Gray was used by coach Winfried Schäfer in two friendly matches against Venezuela and Cuba shortly after his 28th birthday at the end of March 2015 , but did not have short appearances as a replacement for Rodolph Austin and Darren Mattocks out. Together with Allan Ottey and Dino Williams , he was one of only three players in the Jamaican National Premier League in June 2015 in the 23-man squad at the 2015 Copa America . The 2015 Copa América in Chile , in which Jamaica as well as Mexico participated as visiting teams, followed Gray then exclusively from the substitute bench, on which he sat in all three games of his team, all 0-1 defeats, without commitment. At the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015 held immediately afterwards in July 2015 , the trio "Gray-Ottey-Williams" was replaced by the two MLS players Alvas Powell and Andre Blake , as well as England legionnaire Chris Humphrey and Arnett Gardens player Andre Clennon .

In this finals held in the United States and Canada , Jamaica made it to the finals, where they were eliminated after a 3-1 defeat against record champions Mexico. Because of this placement and winning the Caribbean Championship in 2014, Jamaica also qualified for the Copa América Centenario 2016 , a special edition of the Copa America to mark the 100th anniversary of the South American Football Association CONMEBOL for the South American Continental Championship. After he was signed to the Finnish first division club Vaasan PS, the head coach Winfried Schäfer, who has been in office for two years, brought him into the 27-man squad for the two qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup against Nicaragua at the beginning of September . In these two international matches, Hughan Gray was only on the bench and was not used by the German . In a friendly international match against South Korea in mid-October 2015 and two World Cup qualifiers in the fourth round, a group phase, in November 2015, Gray was not even considered by Schäfer and was therefore not in the official squad.

Thus, the defensive player had so far (as of December 20, 2015) a record of eleven official international matches in which he himself has so far remained goalless.

successes

Club successes

with Waterhouse FC

National team successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ We Must Win - Schäfer (English), accessed on December 20, 2015
  2. ↑ CFU Gives Club Championship Group Winners Good News ( Memento of the original from December 23, 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 December 20, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cfufootball.org
  3. ↑ Jamaica Football: Waterhouse miss CFU Club Championship game , accessed December 20, 2015
  4. ↑ a b c Hyvä ote lipesi pahasti ( Memento of the original from December 22, 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. (Finnish), accessed December 20, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vepsu.fi
  5. ↑ VPS haki pisteen Turusta - Clennonilta onnistunut debyytti ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Finnish), accessed December 20, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vepsu.fi
  6. ↑ 2014 CFU Men's Caribbean Cup match fixtures , accessed December 20, 2015
  7. ↑ Schaefer awaits arrival of three more Boyz for Caribbean Cup , accessed on December 20, 2015
  8. ↑ 18 foreign-based players in Reggae Boyz 23-man squad , accessed on December 20, 2015
  9. ^ Reggae Boyz defeat T&T to take 2014 Caribbean Cup , accessed on December 20, 2015
  10. ^ Reggae Boyz depart for Copa America in Chile , accessed December 20, 2015
  11. ↑ Copa America big boost as Jamaica look to Gold Cup, World Cup qualifiers ( Memento of the original from December 23, 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 December 20, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamaicaobserver.com
  12. ↑ Powell recalled to 27-man Reggae Boyz squad ( Memento of the original from December 22, 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 December 20, 2015  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jamaicaobserver.com
  13. ^ Reggae Boyz arrive for Panama clash , accessed December 20, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Gray, Hughan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gray, Hughan Edwards (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Jamaica