Joseph Ngwenya

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Joseph Ngwenya
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Personnel
birthday March 30, 1981
place of birth Plumtree ,  Zimbabwe
size 185 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
Njube Sundowns
2000-2003 Coastal Carolina Chanticleers
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2002-2003 Cape Cod Crusaders 13 (17)
2004-2006 Los Angeles Galaxy 40 0(4)
2006-2007 Columbus crew 25 0(5)
2007 Houston Dynamo 25 0(7)
2008 SK Austria Carinthia 1 0(0)
2008-2009 Antalyaspor 11 0(1)
2010 Houston Dynamo 12 0(1)
2011 DC United 16 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2008– Zimbabwe 5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 4, 2012

2 As of March 4, 2012

Joseph "Joe" Ngwenya (born March 30, 1981 in Plumtree ) is a Zimbabwean football player .

Youth and college

Ngwenya attended Mzilikazi High School in Bulawayo, with whose school team he won the 1999 Zimbabwe National High School Championship. He also played for the Njube Sundowns. In 2000 he emigrated to the USA and played on the college team at Coastal Carolina University . In 2003 he topped the NCAA's scorers list with 21 goals and was part of the Division I First-Team All-Americans, the top eleven of college soccer players.

While in college, he also played for the Cape Cod Crusaders in the USL Premier Development League .

Club career

At the MLS SuperDraft 2004, Los Angeles selected Galaxy . In his first season he played both in attack and in attacking midfield. He scored 4 goals in 22 games, most of them as a substitute. In his sophomore year with the Galaxies, he was injured most of the time. Ngwenya was part of a 4-person exchange with the Columbus crew on May 12, 2006. He scored 5 goals in 25 games during the 2006 MLS season .

After the season he completed professional training with the Spanish club Getafe CF , but received no contract.

During the 2007 season, he moved to Houston Dynamo in exchange for Alejandro Moreno .

On January 21, 2008 Ngwenya signed a contract with SK Austria Kärnten in Austria . He made his debut on the second matchday of the second half of the season due to a strain before the first game. Ngwenya played 53 minutes in the 3-0 defeat of Carinthia against SV Ried on the 25th matchday . In the summer of 2008 Carinthia terminated its contract. Since July 1, 2008, he has been without a contract, which is why he was given the opportunity in July to train at FC Bayern Munich and to play test matches instead of prevented players. He already trained in the USA under Bayern's assistant coach Martin Vasquez . He was used a total of 4 times at Bayern, but did not score a goal. He then trained with FC Augsburg on a trial basis , but was not signed.

He then moved to the Turkish Süper Lig to Antalyaspor , where he only stayed for half a season.

After six months without a new contract, Houston Dynamo announced on April 6, 2010 that Ngwenya would be back for a week's trial. On April 12th, he signed a contract with the Texans. The previous striker Brian Ching was injured and a replacement was found in Ngwenya. At the end of the season, his contract was not renewed.

He participated in the MLS Re-Entry Draft in mid-December and was selected by DC United .

National team

Ngwenya was appointed to the Zimbabwean national football team for the first time on June 9 for the two World Cup qualifiers against Guinea and Namibia. He also played his first international match against Guinea.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ United Soccer Leagues (USL) . uslsoccer.com. August 30, 2004. Archived from the original on September 19, 2012. 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. Retrieved November 30, 2007. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.uslsoccer.com
  2. ↑ Getafe still to make Ngwenya decision . Tribalfootball.com. November 24, 2006. Archived from the original on October 8, 2007. Retrieved on December 4, 2006.
  3. ↑ fcbayern.de: Joseph Ngwenya trains at FCB
  4. ↑ fcaugsburg.de
  5. ↑ http://www.mlssoccer.com/content/dynamo-ngwenya-come-terms
  6. ↑ http://voices.washingtonpost.com/soccerinsider/2010/12/dc_united_mls.html#more
  7. ^ Zimbabwe / Namibia: Warriors Dismiss Namibia . AllAfrica News. June 9, 2008. Retrieved June 10, 2008.
personal data
SURNAME Ngwenya, Joseph
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ngwenya, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Zimbabwean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Plumtree , Zimbabwe