Jay Heaps

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Jay Heaps
JayHeaps 2006 MLS Cup.jpg
Jay Heaps in the 2006 MLS Cup
Personnel
Surname John F. Heaps IV
birthday 2nd August 1976
place of birth Nashua , New Hampshire ,  USA
size 175 cm
position Defender and midfielder
Juniors
Years station
Longmeadow High School
1995-1998 Duke University
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1999-2001 Miami Fusion 71 (8)
2001-2009 New England Revolution 243 (9)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
USA U-17
USA U-20
2009 United States 4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2012-2017 New England Revolution
1 Only league games are given.

Jay Heaps (born August 2, 1976 as John F. Heaps IV in Nashua , New Hampshire ) is an American football coach and former player in the position of a defender , who was also used as a midfielder and in his youth as a striker was trained. He is one of the most frequently used players in the entire Major League Soccer (MLS), the top division in North American football.

For the two MLS franchises Miami Fusion and New England Revolution , he made a total of 314 missions in the regular season . In 2009 he made his international debut for the USA and made four goalless international appearances in the same year. From 2012 to 2017 he was the head coach of the New England Revolution.

He is currently the President of Birmingham Legion FC, which will take part in the United Soccer League from the 2019 season .

Player career

Career start in Massachusetts

Jay Heaps before coming on as a substitute for the 2006 MLS Cup

His real career began as John F. Heaps IV in Nashua in the US state of New Hampshire defender in the neighboring state of Massachusetts , where he spent his time at Longmeadow High School in his later hometown Longmeadow . There he was mostly active in the school's basketball team, where he acted as a point guard and in this position was honored twice as an all-Massachusetts point guard . After his time at Longmeadow High he came to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina , where he was trained as a striker as in his high school days . During this time, he was already one of the best and most aspiring college players in the United States, which he proved as a three-time finalist for the Hermann Award , which is presented annually to the best college player. In addition, he was awarded the Missouri Athletic Club Award in his senior year as the best player in the country and also received an award as GTE Academic All-American in the same year . As part of the team, he often scored a few game-winning goals and ended his college career with 45 goals as the third-goal dangerous player of the Duke Devils , the team's nickname, of all time. Furthermore, he ranked 4th in this ranking with 37 contributing assists and 2nd with 127 scorer points achieved. In the course of his football career at Duke University, he was awarded numerous other prizes and made it into a number of other selections, including four times in the "All- ACC First Team" etc. During his time at Duke University, Heaps was Also active in the first three and a half years in the basketball team, which was also coached by long-term coach Mike Krzyzewski at the time, and put down his basketball career only six months before the end of his studies in order to concentrate more on his career as a football player. Although he was also very successful in basketball, Heaps decided for a later career as an active professional football player. During his time in the university’s own sports department, he was awarded the Glenn E. “Ted” Mann Award at school twice (1997 and 1998).

Draft to Miami Fusion

After finishing his college career, Jay Heaps came via the MLS College Draft 1999 in the first round as the second pick behind Jason Moore and before the later international Richard Mulrooney to the then still existing MLS franchise Miami Fusion . He had previously been on trial training at Feyenoord Rotterdam , but was unable to convince. In the merger, Heaps quickly established itself as one of the regular players and scored his first professional goal on his professional debut on March 20, 1999 against the then MetroStars . By the end of the season he was in 29 of 30 possible championship games and scored a total of three goals and provided one assist. In his 29 season appearances, he was on the pitch right from the start in 28 and also had the most minutes played by all rookies , which at the end of the season earned him, among other things, the award of “ MLS Rookie of the Year ”. In addition, with his three goals he was the team's second-best goalscorer and the second most frequently used player in Miami Fusion and also had the team's second-most points. After his success in his rookie year , Heaps joined his successes in the 2000 game year . He was used in 29 league games, all of which he completed from the start, and achieved a career record of five goals and also made five assists. Because of his achievements around the team, he was named "MLS East All-Star" at the end of the season, which earned him a place in the MLS All-Star Game of the year 2000, when players from the Western Conference and Eastern Conference competed against each other. Heaps was used in the entire second half, scored a goal and made one assist; the game ended in a 9: 4 scoring success in the "Eastern Conference". In addition, the team made the advance in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup this season , when they made it to the finals, where they were finally eliminated with 1: 2 against Chicago Fire . Up to and including the final, Heaps played all of his team's cup games from the start and for the full duration of the game.

Heaps experienced a slump in performance at the beginning of the 2001 season , when he hardly found any match practice at Miami Fusion and only had four season starts with a total of 13 appearances until his move during the current season. In addition, he remained goalless in all his encounters and could only provide one assist. Although Heaps was no longer in the squad at the end of the season , he had a certain share in the victory of the regular season in the Eastern Conference at the end of the game year and the receipt of the MLS Supporters' Shield , which the team also got at the end of the season due to their fair play . During the season Jay Heaps returned to his actual home state of Massachusetts, where he had also grown up, back and signed a contract with the New England Revolution . The move came on June 20, 2001 through a swap with defense attorney Brian Dunseth of New England Revolution, who came to Miami Fusion instead of heaps, which broke up in the same year for financial reasons.

Quick establishment with the Revs

Pat Onstad after parrying Jay Heaps' penalty (MLS Cup 2006)

He made his New England Revolution debut the same day against the Colorado Rapids when he played as a substitute in the second half. By the end of the season he was used for the Revs in 15 championship games, where he was used in 13 games from the start. Under his then coach Fernando Clavijo Heaps also celebrated his first successes with the MLS franchise from Foxborough, Massachusetts . He made it with the team to the final of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2001 , but was eliminated there with 1: 2 against Los Angeles Galaxy , after having been 1: 0 in the final for a long time. He was also able to celebrate great success with the team in the following season of 2002 , when he emerged with the team as the winner of the regular season of the Eastern Conference , also won the subsequent play-offs and entered the MLS Cup for the first time in the club's history. There, Heaps was that was previously used still with Miami Fusion in offensive positions, mostly in the Revs on the position of the right full-back was used, also establishing itself as one of the key players. In 28 completed league games, he scored two goals and gave six assists, twice as many as in the previous season with the Revs. In the following game year 2003 Heaps was the most frequently used player of the team and also emerged as the team's most dangerous defender with three hits and one assist. In addition, the right winger also received his first red card in the New England Revolution dress this season . He was unable to celebrate any notable successes with the team this year or the next.

In 2004 too , Heaps was mostly a fixed starter for the Revs in the regular season and in the play-offs. In 28 games played, he was able to look back on a record of one goal and two assists. He scored his only goal in the first game against LA Galaxy. It was not until the 2005 season that Heaps and his team, which was taken over by the later long-term coach Steve Nicol in 2002 , achieved further significant successes. So the team achieved what they had already achieved in 2002, victory in the regular season and the play-off as well as a finalist in the MLS Cup, and could also win the MLS Supporters' Shield . This season is also considered to be the best in his entire career as a professional football player. After the entire team had been reformed from a 4-4-2 to a 3-5-2 system , Heaps was even more effective in his position as right full-back. In total, he made 31 championship appearances, one goal and five assists this season. 2006 was another very successful year for Jay Heaps. With Heaps, Avery John , Michael Parkhurst or James Riley , New England Revolution had one of the best defenses in the entire league, which had the lowest number of goals in the entire MLS with 35 goals throughout the season.

As in the previous season, Heaps was used one more time in 31 league games, in which he was on the field one more time for the full duration of the game. He made four assists, but he himself remained goalless. With the team he won the play-offs for the third time since joining the team and was thus represented one more time in the MLS Cup, which, however, was not won again. In the game itself he missed his team's last penalty against the experienced Pat Onstad , which in turn made Houston Dynamo the North American football champion for the first time in their club history. Nevertheless, he set various internal team records this season. With 165 appearances and about 14,274 minutes, he became the most frequently used player of the Revs and at that time shared the team record with Joe Franchino with 155 games from the start .

Entry into the MLS Top 10

Jay Heaps (left) in a duel with Carlos Ruiz in 2007

In 2007 Heaps was again active in his position as right winger, but acted more defensively than in previous years. In total, he completed 28 goalless championship games by the end of the season, in which he only contributed one assist. In addition, he fell on August 19, 2007 in the game against the Kansas City Wizards after a half-time injury-related, which meant his first injury-related absence in his career with the Revs. Due to this calf injury , he finally missed further games in the current season, in which he also scored a goal, but for the first and only time in his professional career without an assist. Even though he was out of action for a long time, Heaps made it into the top 10 most active players in Major League Soccer after minutes (22,493). In addition, he made it with the team for the fourth and last time as the winner of the play-offs in the MLS Cup, which was not won for the fourth time and was only narrowly eliminated. Nevertheless, with the victory in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2007, a major and major success was celebrated when they defeated FC Dallas 3-2. For New England Revolution this also meant winning this competition for the first time after having participated several times in the past. Heaps was also brutally fouled by Costa Rican soccer player Andy Herron during a MLS Primetime Thursday game against the Columbus Crew this year when the Costa Rican struck him in the face with an elbow. Although he was not warned by the referee, Herron was subsequently suspended for four games and had to pay a fine of $ 3,000 .

After increasing the league and thereby reducing the number of games to be played, Heaps was used in all 30 championship games of his team in 2008 and once again acted in all matches over the full playing time. He was the only player from New England Revolution and only one of two players in the entire MLS who came to such a result. Over the entire season, he even made 38 competitive appearances (regular season, play-offs, SuperLiga and CONCACAF Champions League ). During his 38 missions he was used in numerous different defensive positions and spent a large part of the season as a central defender , although his relatively small height of 175 cm . This year he was used in four of five games in the North American SuperLiga 2008 and missed the final match against Houston Dynamo after a red card in the semifinals against Atlante , which the Revs won 6-5 on penalties. As the MLS Cup finalist of the preseason Heaps and his team were also entitled to participate in the CONCACAF Champions League 2008/09 , where he was used in both games of his team in the Preliminary Round , the actual qualifying round, and against the strong Joe Public FC clearly retired with a total score of 1: 6.

Then Jay Heaps started with his team in the 2009 season , in which the trained striker and Heaps repurposed as a defender made 25 season appearances. Among other things, he got one hit and four assists. After a largely successful career, Heaps ended his active football career in early December 2009, after making his debut for the US national football team earlier this year . As of March 20, 2011 Jay Heaps ranks 9th among the ten most frequently played players in the MLS with 314 championship games. In the “Most games from the start” category, he ranks fourth with 299 games behind Steve Ralston (372), Kevin Hartman (349) and Chris Henderson (304). In addition, he is with 27,363 played minutes (without individual stoppage time) behind Ralston and Hartman on the league-wide third place. During his 314 completed league games, he committed a total of 413 fouls, which earned him a place in the top ten in the category "committed fouls". Furthermore, behind Pablo Mastroeni (75), Mike Petke (69), Carey Talley (67) and Diego Gutiérrez (63) with 63, he received the fourth and fifth most yellow cards in the course of his MLS career. In addition, he ranks first in the “Most Games”, “Most Games from the Beginning” and “Most Minutes of Play” category in the New England Revolution team-internal ranking.

National team career

His career in the youth selections of the US Football Association began around 1995 or earlier when he was used in the United States U-17 selection . In the following years, he was called up to the junior squad of the USA, in which he also came to his assignments. In his first year as a professional at Miami Fusion Heaps was called up for the first time in the squad of the US national team for a game against Jamaica on September 8, 1999, where he was not used. In the years that followed, especially in 2005 and 2006, Heaps was called up again, but it never came into play. It wasn't until almost ten years after his first call-up that he finally made his national team debut, having previously been brought into the 23-man squad for the 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup . The then 32-year-old made his debut on July 11, 2009 in the third group game, a 2-2 draw against Haiti , in his hometown of Foxborough, when he occupied his traditional defensive position for the entire duration of the game. Another 90-minute missions followed in the quarter-finals against Panama and in the semifinals against Honduras . In the subsequent final game Heaps was also used from the start and had to leave the encounter in a heated encounter in the 88th minute of the game after yellow-red . The Americans were clearly put in their place by the Mexicans with 0: 5. For Heaps, the final, through which the USA at least achieved the silver medal, meant the last international match of his career after he made his debut for the national team for around two weeks.

Coaching career

At the start of the 2012 season, Jay Heaps was introduced as the new head coach of his former New England Revolution club after long-time coach Steve Nicol was sacked after the unsuccessful 2011 season. Since then he has coached New England in the MLS. In the 2012 season , he missed the playoffs by a wide margin, narrowly reaching them in the 2013 season , where he and his team were eliminated in the Conference semifinals against eventual champions Sporting Kansas City , and in the 2014 season he moved into the Eastern Conference as runner-up Playoffs a.

successes

Longmeadow High School

basketball
  • 2 × "All Massachusetts Point Guard"
Soccer
  • 1 × "All-Massachusetts Player of the Year"
  • 1 × "All-American Player of the Year"

Miami Fusion

New England Revolution

National team

Individually

  • 4 × election to the "All- ACC -First-Team": 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1998
  • 3 × Hermann Award Finalist: 1995, 1996 and 1997
  • 1 × "Soccer America National Freshman of the Year": 1995
  • 1 × "ACC Freshman of the Year": 1995
  • Received the Missouri Athletic Club Award 1 × 1998
  • 1 × Award as GTE Academic All-American : 1998/99
  • 1 × award for " NSCAA Scholar-Athlete of the Year": 1998
  • 1 × “ MLS Rookie of the Year ” award : 1999
  • 1 × “MLS East All-Star” award: 2000
  • additional minor achievements and selections (high school and college)

Families / Private / Trivia

Heaps studied history at Duke University. In addition to his career as a football player, Heaps was also often hired as a model . With his wife Danielle, Jay Heaps has a young son and a daughter who is about two years younger.

After the end of his career as an active player, Heaps did not turn his back on football and in the spring of 2010 announced his further career step as a co-commentator on games of the New England Revolution. He appears in television and radio broadcasts together with television and radio commentator Brad Feldman . Even after his official career as a professional footballer, Heaps was still active as a footballer, playing in a men's over-30 league, among other things. He also often plays basketball in his free time. He also worked for some time as a bank clerk at Morgan Stanley , based in Boston , until he took over as head coach at New England Revolution in 2012.

Web links

Commons : Jay Heaps  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes and individual references

  1. ↑ Heaps, Whitfield go early in MLS draft ( Memento of the original from March 6, 2011 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 March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / dukechronicle.com
  2. ↑ We Have the Herron Suspension ( Memento of the original dated December 2, 2008 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 March 23, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / columbus.theoffside.com
  3. ↑ Herron Foul on Heaps , accessed March 23, 2011
  4. ^ Revolution star Jay Heaps retires , accessed March 23, 2011
  5. ^ Revolution's Heaps retires | No regrets as Heaps steps away , accessed on March 23, 2011
  6. ↑ a b c d e All-Time-Leader-Stats of the MLS (English), accessed on March 23, 2011
  7. ↑ Arena Tests National Team Depth; Names Youthful Team for Sept. 8 Match in Jamaica ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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 March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  8. ↑ US Announces Roster for 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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 March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  9. ↑ US Men's National Team Advances to Quarterfinals of 2009 Gold Cup With 2-2 Draw With Haiti In Final Group B Match ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 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 March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  10. ↑ US Men Move on to Gold Cup Semifinals With 2-1 Overtime Victory Against Panama ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2011 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. (English), accessed March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  11. ↑ US Men's National Team Advances to CONCACAF Gold Cup Final with 2-0 Win Against Honduras in Chicago ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2009 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. (English), accessed March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  12. ↑ a b U.S. Finishes Second in 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup After Falling to Mexico at Giants Stadium ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2010 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 March 23, 2011  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  13. ↑ a b Heaps had a share in the successes, as he was still used in 13 championship games of Miami Fusion this season, but was already in use with his new team at the end of the season.
  14. ^ Fashion is the goal for the Revolution's Jay Heaps , accessed March 23, 2011
  15. ↑ a b c d Jay Heaps staying involved with soccer , accessed March 23, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Heaps, Jay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heaps, John F. IV (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashua , New Hampshire, USA