Jeff Cunningham

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Jeff Cunningham
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Personnel
birthday August 21, 1976
place of birth Montego Bay ,  Jamaica
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1994-1997 South Florida Bulls
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2004 Columbus crew 182 (62)
2005 Colorado Rapids 26 (12)
2006-2007 Real Salt Lake 32 (18)
2007-2008 Toronto FC 32 0(6)
2008-2010 FC Dallas 69 (34)
2011 Columbus crew 21 0(2)
2012 CSD Comunicaciones 12 0(4)
2012– San Antonio Scorpions 8 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
1999 Jamaica 1 0(0)
2001-2009 United States 14 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.
As of September 20, 2012

2 As of July 13, 2011

Jeff Cunningham (born August 21, 1976 in Montego Bay , Jamaica ) is an American football player who was born in Jamaica. He has played for the San Antonio Scorpions in the North American Soccer League since 2012 .

Career

college

Cunningham was born in Jamaica. At the age of fourteen he moved to Crystal River in the US state of Florida has to offer. From 1994 to 1997 he attended the University of South Florida and played for the college soccer team of the South Florida Bulls. In his first and second year he was named in the respective best selection of all players in the Conference USA . In his last year he was even named Conference USA Player of the Year. In total, he scored 41 goals for the USF and prepared 36 more.

Change to the MLS

In the 1998 MLS College Draft, he was selected by the Columbus crew as the ninth pick in the first round. In his first year he played 25 games, mostly as a substitute. He scored eight goals and set a new record for the most goals scored by a player in his first MLS season (now outbid by Damani Ralph ). From the 1999 season he was used regularly and became one of the team's most important players. In 2002 he was voted into the best team in the MLS and won the title in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup with the team . After a disappointing 2004 season, the crew gave it to the Colorado Rapids . Columbus received preferential rights for this in the draft process. Cunnigham had scored the most goals for the team by then and shares this record with Brian McBride .

He finished his first season at the Rapids with twelve goals. In the MLS All-Star Game 2005 he scored two goals against Fulham FC . After the 2005 season he was exchanged for Clint Mathis from Real Salt Lake .

In 2006 he was the top scorer in Major League Soccer with sixteen goals and received the MLS Golden Boot award. During the 2007 season he moved to Toronto FC . Salt Lake received Alecko Eskandarian for this . In Toronto he received the number 96 as a shirt number which symbolized the goals he had scored in Major League Soccer. During his sophomore season, he fell out of favor with the Canadian club. He had the chance to score a goal that would have meant a place in the CONCACAF Champions League .

On August 8, 2008, he moved to FC Dallas . In the first game for the Texans, Cunningham scored his first goal for the new club. This was also his 100th goal in the MLS. In 2009 he scored seventeen goals and won the Golden Boot, the award for the best goalscorer in the MLS Regular Season. After the 2010 season, Dallas FC rejected the option to extend the contract and Cunningham came into the first-ever MLS Re-Entry Draft. There he was selected by the Columbus crew on December 15th. But before a contract was signed, he trained with the Norwegian first division club IK Start .

He was officially signed on January 28, 2011 and played his first game for the crew on February 22, 2011.

After half a year Cunningham left Columbus Crew and moved to the CSD Comunicaciones in Guatemala .

For the 2012/13 season he moved to the North American Soccer League for the San Antonio Scorpions .

National team

In 1999 he completed his first international match for the Jamaican national soccer team . He was used in a friendly against Ghana. In November 2001, he received US citizenship and was thus eligible to play for the national soccer team of the United States , as he had not yet played a competitive game for Jamaica.

Cunningham made his international debut for the United States on December 9, 2001 against South Korea. After four years without being called to the national team, he was invited to two friendly matches in November 2009. In the game against Denmark on November 18, 2009, he scored his first international goal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FCD sign Sikora, acquire Cunningham. (No longer available online.) Dallas FC, Aug 8, 2008, archived from the original on April 15, 2009 ; accessed on August 8, 2008 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fc.dallas.mlsnet.com
  2. ↑ Seattle 2-1 Dallas: Hoops' playoff hopes dashed. In: ESPN. October 25, 2009, accessed February 3, 2010 .
  3. ↑ http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/wolff-angel-selected-re-entry-stage-2-draft
  4. ^ Cunningham working out with IK Start. www.mlssoccer.com, January 11, 2011, accessed January 22, 2011 .
  5. ↑ Crew, RSL finish scoreless in testy CCL opener
  6. ^ Denmark 3-1 US: Second-half surge for Danes. In: ESPN. November 18, 2009, accessed February 3, 2010 .

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personal data
SURNAME Cunningham, Jeff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican-American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 21, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Montego Bay , Jamaica