Jason Si'i

Jason Si'i
Personnel
birthday	December 27, 1983
place of birth	Fountain Valley , California ,  USA
size	172 cm
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	East Linn Christian Academy
	Western Baptist College / Corban College / Corban University
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
~ 2015 ~	Puebla Soccer Team
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2015	American Samoa	3 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Jason Siʻi (born December 27, 1983 in Fountain Valley , California ) is a former American football player in the position of midfielder , who played in three international matches for the American-Samoan national football team in 2015 .

Career

Jason Si'i came to Oregon with his mother at a young age . Here he started playing football while attending the second grade of his school, although he was initially averse to the sport. The sport of football accompanied him throughout his school and college years. He was a member of the school soccer team during his four years at the East Linn Christian Academy in Lebanon , Oregon. Here he received a scholarship to Western Baptist College , renamed Corban College and Graduate School in 2007 and Corban University in 2010 . At the college in Salem , Oregon, he was also in the squad of the men's soccer team throughout his student days. When he made the leap to the national team of American Samoa in 2015, he was playing for the Puebla Soccer Team with games in the amateur league Willamette Valley Soccer League and appeared in games against the Seattle Sounders farm team, among other things .

He became aware of the American-Samoan national football team when he had seen a documentary about the team and discovered that he was eligible to play for the team due to his American-Samoan ancestry. Before that, he had thought that you had to be born in American Samoa to be allowed to compete in the national team. The then 31-year-old then contacted the American Samoa Football Association , sent video material of himself as a player and was soon called up for the national team. For his five-week period with the national team, he was released from his employer ( Engl. Leave of abscence ). He made his debut in the national team on August 27, 2015 in a friendly and preparatory game for the OFC qualification for the 2018 World Cup against Fiji , when he was used from the start by national coach Larry Mana'o in the 6-0 defeat the 61st minute of play was replaced by Moe Kuresa .

Just four days later, on August 31, 2015, he played the first group game of the World Cup qualifying, which ended with a narrow 3-2 defeat against Samoa . While he sat on the bench and did not play in the subsequent second group game, a 2-1 win over Tonga on September 2, 2015, he came on September 4, 2015, in the third and last group game of his team, with a 2-0 -Success over the national soccer team of the Cook Islands , in stoppage time for Kaleopa Siligi on the field. As one of three teams, American Samoa had six points at the end of the first round , but ended up in second place due to a slightly worse goal difference and thus missed promotion to the next round of World Cup qualification. That was also Si'i's last appearance in the jersey of the American-Samoan national team before he returned to his homeland of Oregon.

Web links

• Jason Siʻi in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Jason Siʻi in the soccerway.com database
• Jason Siʻi in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j} Jake Tabor: International soccer player has local roots. In: Albany Democrat-Herald. July 24, 2015, archived from the original on April 17, 2021 ; accessed on April 17, 2021 (English, with picture).