Justin Haak

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Justin Haak
Personnel
birthday September 12, 2001
place of birth East Village , Manhattan ,
New York City , New York ,  USA
size 183 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
Chelsea Piers Soccer Club
2012-2014 Met oval
2015-2019 New York City FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2019– New York City FC 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA U16
2018– USA U18
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 14, 2019

2 As of July 14, 2019

Justin Haak (born September 12, 2001 in East Village , Manhattan , New York City , New York ) is an American football player in the position of midfielder .

Club career

Career start

Justin Haak was born on September 12, 2001, one day after the terrorist attacks on his hometown , in the East Village district of Manhattan, one of the five boroughs of the metropolis of New York City, in the US state of New York. He grew up in the East Village in Manhattan and started playing soccer here. He often played with friends in nearby parks, such as Tompkins Square Park . As a child he was registered by his parents at the Chelsea Piers Soccer Club at Chelsea Piers . There he was active for six years under Ron Restrepo, who founded the youth training association in 2002. When he was ten years old, he and his family moved further south to Bushwick , Brooklyn, and from then on had to go to his academy at the Metropolitan Oval in Queens at least four days a week , where he joined the Met Oval training club from the U-12 played, commute. With his new friends, he mainly played in Maria Hernandez Park near his home .

When the founding of a soccer franchise from the metropolis ( New York City FC ) was officially announced in 2013 , the then eleven year old decided to play for this franchise from now on. As an alternative in the region, there would have been the New York Red Bulls playing in New Jersey , but the way there would have been too far for him. When the NYCFC began playing in Major League Soccer in 2015 , the franchise's soccer academy and its youth teams also started playing. Haak was accepted into the Academy's U-14 team and completed 21 league games in this U-13 / U-14 team in the 2015/16 season, of which he was on the field from the start in 20 and scored seven goals. Furthermore, it brought on two missions in the season-closing play-off games at the end of the regular championship.

In the following season he was a regular in the U-15 / U-16 squad, for which he made 25 championship appearances and scored three goals. There were also three appearances in the play-offs. One of the most important successes this season was winning the Generation Adidas Cup for the U-15 / U-16 teams. He also took part with the team at the Mundialito Tahuichi , an international youth tournament in Bolivia . As a regular player, Haak also played in the U-18 / U-19 academy team of the franchise in the following season 2017/18. In 25 league appearances, he scored four goals and was also in all six play-off games of his team in use, where he contributed another three hits. In the end, the midfielder was able to win a junior championship at the US Soccer Development Academy for the first time in his career and was henceforth able to call himself USDA National Champion 2018 .

Jump into Major League Soccer

The then 16-year-old made his first appearance for the professional team trained by Patrick Vieira in preparation for the 2018 game year . He played in a friendly against LA Galaxy and on a Mexico tour of the franchise against Atlético San Luis , where he was referred to as Cavani by local audiences because of his long dark hair and his remaining appearance . Subsequently, Haak mainly appeared for the U-18 / U-19 team, for which he had already played the previous season, but was already training regularly with the professional squad. At the academy he was in 13 league games this season and scored three goals. On January 24, 2019, the native New Yorker was awarded a professional contract as the third homegrown player - after James Sands (* 2000) and Joe Scally (* 2002) - in the history of the franchise.

While he had not been taken into account in the preparation for the 2019 game year , it took some time during the game year before Domènec Torrent , who had been the coach of the MLS franchise since June 2018, used him. On June 4, 2019, Haak made his competitive debut for the professional team in a 5-2 win over FC Cincinnati when he came on the pitch in the 86th minute for Romanian international Alexandru Mitriță . Since then, the 17-year-old has been part of the expanded professional squad and played in all three of his team's games in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2019 between mid-June and mid-July . The NYCFC was eliminated from the quarterfinals against Orlando City on penalties . In the league, he has always been on the bench without being used since his debut (as of July 14, 2019).

National team career

Haak gained his first experience in a national team of the US Football Association in the US U-16 team under Shaun Tsakiris . In August 2018 he took part in the Václav Ježek memorial tournament in the Czech Republic with the U-18 team from his home country . The Americans subsequently won this tournament.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Justin Haak - From The City ? #ForTheCity (English), accessed on July 14, 2019
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Teenager Justin Haak brings city edge with a delicate touch to NYCFC , accessed July 14, 2019
  3. ↑ GA Cup, Matchday 5: New York City FC beat Tigres, win Premier Division (English), accessed on July 14, 2019
  4. ↑ NYCFC sign 17-year-old midfielder Justin Haak to Homegrown Player deal , accessed July 14, 2019
  5. ↑ a b 17 YEAR OLD NYCFC ACADEMY PLAYER JUSTIN HAAK SIGNS HOMEGROWN CONTRACT , accessed on July 14, 2019
  6. ^ New York City FC 5, FC Cincinnati 2 | 2019 MLS Match Recap , accessed July 14, 2019
  7. ↑ U-18 MNT HEADS TO CZECH REPUBLIC FOR 2018 VACLAV JEZEK TOURNAMENT ( Memento of April 24, 2019 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 14, 2019
  8. ↑ Vaclav Jezek U-18 Tournament (Czech Republic) 2018 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on July 14, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Haak, Justin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 2001
PLACE OF BIRTH East Village , Manhattan , New York City , New York , United States