Jed Zayner

Jed Zayner
Jed Zayner as a player from Columbus Crew (2008)
Personnel
Surname	Jedidiah Zayner
birthday	December 13, 1984
place of birth	Valparaiso , Indiana ,  USA
size	180 cm
position	Defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Carl Sandburg High School
2003-2005	Indiana Hoosiers
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2003-2005	Chicago Fire Reserves	28 (2)
2006-2010	Columbus crew	36 (0)
2008	→  Cleveland City Stars  (loan)	2 (0)
2010-2011	DC United	13 (0)
2012	San Jose Earthquakes	1 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
	USA U-18
	USA U-20
1 Only league games are given.

Jedidiah "Jed" Zayner (born December 13, 1984 in Valparaiso , Indiana ) is a retired American football player on the position of defender .

Career

High school and college

Jed Zayner was born on December 13, 1984 in the small town of Valparaiso, Indiana, to a broken family with an abusive father. He grew up here and in Orland Park , a suburb of Chicago , in the US state of Illinois, about an hour's drive away . In Orland Park he attended, among other things, the public four-year Carl Sandburg High School , in whose school football team was used. With the Sandburg Eagles , the name of the sports department at the high school, he won the Illinois State Championship for two consecutive years. After graduating from high school, Zayner began studying in 2003 at Indiana University Bloomington, known for its successful college soccer program . In his youth he also appeared in the youth division of the United States Soccer Federation . So he represented his home country at the U-18 level and was among other things in 2003 in the extended U-20 squad of his home country .

2003

At the Indiana Hoosiers , he started in his freshman year in all 25 championship games from the start and helped the team to eleven clean-cut games this year. Last year under the leadership of Jerry Yeagley , who was in his 31st year as the coach of the Indiana Hoosiers men's soccer team, the soccer team again celebrated great successes. After the regular season, the team made it to the College Cup and started in the second round of the Regional 1 season . After a narrow victory over the Kentucky Wildcats , the team reached the Regional Finals after a 5-0 victory over the VCU Rams . In these they defeated the UCLA Bruins 2-1 and moved into the round of the last four of the 2003 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship . After the team only defeated the Santa Clara Broncos in extra time in the semifinals , the team celebrated a 1-0 victory over St. John's Red Storm in the championship final and won for the sixth time after 1982, 1983, 1988, 1998 and 1999 football championship of the NCAA Division I . For his achievements Zayner was as co- Big Ten -Freshman-of-the-Year award, as well as in the Big Ten All-Freshman- , Soccer America's -Freshman All-America- and College Soccer News' -Freshman All America teams elected.

When he was not playing at university, he was with the Chicago Fire Reserves , the second soccer team of the major league soccer franchise Chicago Fire . In 2003 he completed five championship games and managed with the team, after a first place in the Heartland Division of the Central Conference , to move into the season-closing play-offs. After victories over the Indiana Invaders in the Conference Semifinals , the Mid-Michigan Bucks in the Conference Finals and Orange County Blue Star in the National Semifinals , the franchise moved into the season final for the championship title in the USL PDL . The team then lost this final game 2-0 to the Cape Cod Crusaders .

2004

In the game year 2004 the Hoosiers went under the longtime assistant coach Mike Freitag , who had been promoted to head coach. Zayner started in 23 games from the beginning and was an important pillar on the defensive of the Hoosiers, who led almost all defensive categories in the statistics this year. In addition, it brought Zayner to his first assist, when he contributed the template for Jacob Peterson's 1-0 opening goal in the final . After another successful regular season, the sophomore and his team made it to the College Cup and started as the second seeded team. In Regional 4 , the team first defeated the Michigan Wolverines 1-0, then celebrated a 1-0 win against the Boston College Eagles and won the subsequent Regional Finals 4-0 over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane . In the subsequent round of the top four, the Hoosiers - with a score of 2-2 after regular time - scored the decisive goal that ensured progress in the last minute of extra time through John Michael Hayden . In the season-defining final against the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos , Zayner contributed the already mentioned assist to the 1-0 lead of the Hoosiers in the 27th minute of the game; after UC Santa Barbara Gauchos had equalized in the 82nd minute, the game went through extra time to penalties, which then the Indiana Hoosiers won and secured the championship title for the second time in a row. Because of his achievements, he Zayner was chosen at the end of the season in the College Cup All Tournament team .

As in the year before, the defensive player was again used for the Chicago Fire Reserves in amateur football when he was not playing at the university. The team achieved the best result in the entire league, won 17 of their 18 games and had a goal difference of +66 in the Heartland Division . Zayner played here in nine championship games and retired with the team - after a 3-1 victory over Fort Wayne Fever in the Conference Semifinals - in the Conference Finals against the Boulder Rapids Reserve .

2005

In his junior year, he played all 17 championship games from the start and scored the first competitive goal of his college career on October 23. With the team, however, he could no longer continue the success of previous seasons. The team made it into the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2005 , but was eliminated from the current competition in the second round of Regional 3 against the Notre Dame Fighting Irish . Zayner was then elected to the Top Drawer Soccer’s Team of the Season First Team and was also part of the NSCAA All Great Lakes Region First Team and NSCAA / adidas All America -Third team . In addition, he was a semi-finalist on receiving the Hermann Trophy , which is awarded annually to the best college players. In his entire college career he was used in 65 games and contributed one goal and four assists. In the free time at the university, he came again in 2005 for the Chicago Fire Reserves in the USL PDL. In 14 championship appearances he scored twice, won the Great Lakes Division of the Central Conference with the team and was eliminated with the team in the subsequent Conference Semifinals with 0: 4 against eventual champions Des Moines Menance .

Change to Major League Soccer

Via the Generation Adidas joint venture and the MLS SuperDraft 2006 , Zayner made the leap into Major League Soccer a little later when he was drafted as the 13th pick in the second round to the Columbus Crew . In April 2006 he suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament and cartilage damage in his left knee and was unable to play for the remainder of the 2006 game year . In the game year 2007 Zayner made his professional debut when he was sent on July 20, 2007 against the Kansas City Wizards by coach Sigi Schmid from playing field. This year he came to a second league appearance, but remained the rest of the time on the bench or especially with the reserve team with play in the MLS Reserve League . For this he completed ten championship games in 2007, seven of which he was on the lawn from the start. Even in the successful year 2008 , in which the crew won the MLS Cup and the MLS Supporters' Shield , the defensive player only made a few championship appearances. In six championship games he came to only 200 minutes of use; He was also used in two qualifying games for the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2008 , but could not qualify with the team. Most of the time, however, Zayner again spent the reserve team, where he was used again in ten league games. Furthermore, he was briefly awarded to the USL-2 franchise Cleveland City Stars and completed two league games in the then third division for this.

After years as assistant coach at Sigi Schmid's side, Robert Warzycha rose to head coach in 2009 ; under the Pole Zayner came to his missions from the start. He often played for the full length of the game, but was also often unused on the bench. By the end of the season, the defender had made 20 league appearances and one assist. He was also used in two games in the 2009/10 CONCACAF Champions League . Columbus Crew made it to the quarter-finals after a second place in Group C and was just eliminated from Depotivo Toluca with a total score of 4: 5. In the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2009 Zayner was used in the only game of his team over the entire duration of the match; the game was only lost on penalties against the Rochester Rhinos . In the 2010 game year , the 1.80 m tall defender started for Columbus Crew, but was handed over to DC United in early August 2010 along with a four-round pick in the MLS SuperDraft 2011 ; In return, the crew received a second round pick in the MLS SuperDraft 2012 . Up to this point he had made eight appearances in the league. A few days after he was still on the bench with the crew, he took his new employer's bench for the first time and made his competitive debut for the Washington, DC franchise on August 22nd, coach Ben Olsen immediately put him as a regular in the Defense row, with Zayner making nine league appearances for DC United by the end of the season. He played alternately as a central defender and as a full-back and ended the season with the team in eighth and thus last place in the Eastern Conference .

Sudden end of career

Things went a little better in Major League Soccer 2011 , in which United came seventh out of nine places in the Eastern Conference . Zayner was mostly not part of the squad and only had little match experience and only made four league appearances by the end of the season, while also keeping fit with the reserve team. Due to a knee operation, he was out most of the year due to injury. At the end of the game year, the franchise did not pull the option of renewal, whereupon Zayner got into the 2011 MLS Re-Entry Draft . Since he was not drafted in this, however, he became a free agent and remained as such without a club for about half a year. Before that he had tried to recommend himself for a further engagement in the trial training. On June 20, 2012, he signed a contract with the San José Earthquakes . On July 29, 2012, he made his competitive debut for the California MLS franchise in a 1-1 draw against Chicago Fire . Coach Frank Yallop used him from the start as a right-back and replaced him in the 72nd minute for Sam Garza . As in the rounds before his debut, Zayner sat unused on the bench of the leaders for the rest of the season. By the end of the game year 2012 , Yallop did not use him in any other game; the Earthquakes ended the year, mainly due to the offensive power of Chris Wondolowski , who was the superior top scorer with 27 hits, in first place in the Western Conference , as well as in first place in the combined final table. In the play-offs that determine the season, however, the franchise was eliminated in the conference semifinals against LA Galaxy . Nevertheless, the team at least managed to win the MLS Supporters' Shield this year. Due to persistent knee problems, Zayner ended his career as an active professional football player at the end of the 2012 game year.

Time after retirement as an active person

While still active as an active player, Zayner began working as a Performance Enhancement Coordinator at Santa Clara University in August 2012 and was employed there until November 2012. From May 2013 to May 2015, he was Director of Coaching at the MLS Columbus Crew franchise junior training association CUSA Crew Juniors in Centerville , Ohio .

Private

With his wife Katie, with whom he has been married since 2008, he has three sons, Joah, Elias and Lucas. The family has been supporting orphans in Monterrey , Mexico, through the non-profit organization Back2Back, since 2015 . Because of this commitment, the family sold most of their belongings and moved straight to Monterrey to help the orphans on site. The family also supports other projects through the Back2Back organization; u. a. in Nigeria . As early as 2007 and 2008, Zayner was the managing director of Filleo Co. , a charity that is or was involved in collecting funds, including the sale of T-shirts, for children in need. Zayner also acted as spokesman for the US Soccer Foundation's Passback program and was also the spokesperson for Lacelat , an accessory that raised money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation .

Web links & sources

Commons : Jed Zayner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jed Zayner in the soccerway.com database
• Jed Zayner on soccerstats.us (English)
• Jed Zayner on the official Indiana Hoosiers website : 2003 , 2004 and 2005 (English)
• Jed Zayner in the MLSSoccer.com database
• Jed Zayner on the official website of LinkedIn (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cameron, Zayner, Alvarez And Yeagley Earn Individual Laurels ( Memento of the original dated May 9, 2018 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 on May 6, 2018 
2. ↑ UC Santa Barb. vs Indiana (Dec 12, 2004 ), accessed May 6, 2018
3. Jump up ↑ Maryland vs Indiana (Dec 10, 2004 ), accessed May 6, 2018
4. ↑ US U-20 players headline 2006 class ( Memento from May 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on May 10, 2018
5. ^ After injuries, United's Jed Zayner good to go , accessed May 8, 2018
6. ↑ List of trialists in United's preseason camp , accessed May 8, 2018
7. ↑ Trialists update , accessed on May 8, 2018
8. ↑ Earthquakes sign D Jed Zayner (English), accessed on May 8, 2018
9. ↑ ^{a b} Official website of the Zayner family (English), accessed on May 6, 2018