Kellen Gulley

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Kellen Gulley
Personnel
birthday April 6, 1994
place of birth Clinton , Mississippi ,  USA
size 183 cm
position striker
Juniors
Years station
Aztec's premier
Chicago Fire
2009-2011 IMG Academy
2011–2012 Chicago Fire
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2012-2014 Chicago Fire 0 (0)
2013 →  Atlanta Silverbacks  (loan) 10 (0)
2014 Atlanta Silverbacks 3 (0)
2015 Mississippi Brilla 11 (7)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2009 USA U-15
2009-2010 USA U-17 8 (4)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 26, 2018

Kellen Gulley (born April 6, 1994 in Clinton , Mississippi ) is a retired American football player in the position of a striker .

Club career

Career start at home

Kellen Gulley was on 6 April 1994, the son of the African American Army - Veteran Marie (* 1960) and the White James Gulley (* 1948) in the city of Clinton, a few kilometers northwest of the capital Jackson , born in the US state of Mississippi. Here he grew up at the side of his older brother James junior (* 1992) and began his career as a football player at the side of his brother. The two sons were the only children of Marie and James Gulley; the father already had several children from previous relationships. In their youth, the two brothers played for local teams, such as Aztecs Premier , or school teams, including at the local Clinton High School . The father, who often went to his sons' games, was particularly marked by his temperament and aggressiveness. This also degenerated through assault on referees, which Gulley mostly attacked verbally.

At a young age, he was also used in the youth division of the major league soccer franchise Chicago Fire, parallel to his school days . The Chicago franchise had been operating various youth education centers across the United States since the mid-2000s, including one in Mississippi, which Kellen Gulley attended. In the summer it was also used regularly at the headquarters of the franchise. Between 2009 and 2011 he also attended the IMG Academy in Bradenton , Florida , where he received even more intensive training and was trained as a US junior national player. Between 2011 and 2012 he was a member of the Chicago Fire youth team before he was brought up to the professional squad. Before that, he took part in three consecutive SUM / Generation Adidas Cups (2009, 2010 and 2011). In 2010 he already trained with the team in the Super 20 League , the Chicago Fire U-23 team in the USL PDL and the professional team.

In August 2011 he was the second homegrown player in the history of the franchise in the professional line-up, but was not eligible to play because he still had to handle the homegrown player procedure. Instead, he played four games in the reserve team in 2011, with one goal and one assist, and was used by the pros in an international friendly against Deportivo Guadalajara .

First jobs as a professional

In 2012 he was officially part of the professional squad, but only sat on the bench unused in one league game. The rest of the time he sometimes spent with the reserve team in the MLS Reserve League , in which he was used in six games and only started in one from the beginning. Mainly, however, he was used in the U-18 academy team. He played in 23 championship games, twelve of which he started from the start, scored six goals and moved into the USSDA playoffs as the best-placed team in the country . The goal in 2012 was the breakthrough of the offensive player in the professional team in the following game year 2013 ; this did not come about, however, because Gulley was awarded for the entire game year to the Atlanta Silverbacks with play in the second-rate North American Soccer League (NASL). On May 26, 2013 he made his professional debut when he came on the pitch in the 1-0 away win over the San Antonio Scorpions by coach Brian Haynes from the 73rd minute of the game for Mexican Rubén Luna . Over the remainder of the NASL game year 2013 , Gulley came to nine other short appearances - only one game of which he played over the full 90 minutes - but most of the time he sat on the bench without being used. The first of the spring season , which ran from April to July 2013, took the Atlanta Silverbacks in the final against New York Cosmos , the first of the fall season held from August to November 2013 , when the Atlanta , Georgia franchise only finished seventh and penultimate place , part. The Soccer Bowl , as the final game was called, ended after a goal by veteran Marcos Senna in a 0-1 defeat for the Silverbacks.

Since he was likely to have convinced the people in charge of the Atlanta Silverbacks with his few missions, he was taken under contract in July for the 2014 NASL game year . Around six months earlier, Chicago Fire had taken the 19-year-old back into the squad, but released him a month later. He played his first game shortly after his engagement against Chicago Fire in the quarter-finals of the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2014 . After that, the 20-year-old striker made two short appearances in the league and was largely ignored by coach Eric Wynalda . After that game year, he left the franchise and in April 2015, along with his brother James, who had occasionally played as a college soccer player, was signed by the Mississippi Brilla franchise, based in their hometown of Clinton, which played in the fourth-rate Premier Development League. Here Kellen Gulley was able to establish himself as a dangerous striker for the first time and scored seven goals in eleven league appearances in 2015. As the first in the Mid South Division of the Southern Conference , he took part in the Southern Conference Championship with Mississippi Brilla , but was eliminated in the first game, the semi-finals, against FC Miami City Champions .

Retired after drug trafficking and shooting

In January 2016, Gulley was arrested in his hometown of Clinton after a shooting at his home. The shooting was declared a drug deal wrong by local police, assuming Gulley opened fire when another person tried to deprive him of illegal drugs. On August 1, 2016, the Clinton Police Department released information that on July 29, 2016, Gulley was detained again for possessing and intending to sell illegal drugs while being armed. He has been described by police as "a significant dealer of marijuana , cocaine powder and codeine syrup in Clinton and the Jackson Metropolitan Area ". Subsequently, Gulley criticized the flawed search warrant and claimed to have shot in self-defense in the January shooting of the same year. On November 3, 2017, Kellen Gulley was sentenced to four years in prison for possessing marijuana and intending to sell it, and is currently serving his sentence (as of July 2018) in a Mississippi Department of Corrections detention center .

National team career

In 2009, Kellen Gulley, who served for three years in the US Soccer U-17 Residency Program in Bradenton, Florida, made his debut on the US U-17 national team . In the spring of the same year he was a member of the United States' U-15 team and was used with them in a training camp in Mönchengladbach . Even in the summer of 2009 he was a member of this junior team from his home country. In November 2009 he was appointed to the U-17 squad for the first time by Wilmer Cabrera for a series of friendly internationals. In the first encounter against Portugal still without commitment, Gulley made his debut two days later in a 1-1 draw against Brazil on December 5, 2009 and scored the only goal of his team after submission by Nicholas Melo . Between 2009 and 2010, the offensive player made eight international appearances in which he scored four goals. In January 2011, Cabrera appointed him to the squad for the spring semester of the US Soccer Residency Program .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Forum entry from 2012 on an incident from 2008 (English), accessed on July 26, 2018
  2. ↑ Referees File Assault Charges Against Irate, Pushy Parent ( Memento from May 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 26, 2018
  3. ↑ Fire sign Kellen Gulley , accessed July 26, 2018
  4. ↑ Fire can't create chances, fall 1-0 to Guadalajara in friendly , accessed on July 26, 2018
  5. ↑ Fire Loan Kellen Gulley to the Atlanta Silverbacks , accessed July 26, 2018
  6. ↑ Official: Kellen Gulley Loaned To Atlanta Silverbacks , accessed July 26, 2018
  7. ↑ Kellen Gulley Getting Playing Time In Atlanta , accessed July 26, 2018
  8. ↑ MLS on Loan: Despite defeat, Chicago Fire's Kellen Gulley set for title match with Atlanta Silverbacks , accessed July 26, 2018
  9. ↑ New York Cosmos claim 2013 NASL Soccer Bowl behind goal from Marcos Senna , accessed on July 26, 2018
  10. ↑ ATLANTA SILVERBACK PULLS A RABBIT OUT OF ITS HAT , accessed on July 26, 2018
  11. ↑ RELEASE: Chicago Fire Soccer Club Re-signs Yazid Atouba and Kellen Gulley , accessed on July 26, 2018
  12. ↑ Fire waive Gulley, King , accessed July 26, 2018
  13. ↑ Brothers Reunite to Play for Hometown Team (English), accessed July 26, 2018
  14. ^ Former pro soccer player arrested in Clinton , accessed July 26, 2018
  15. ↑ a b Gulley busted ... again , accessed on July 26, 2018
  16. ↑ Gulley: search warrant wrong, shooting was self-defense , accessed July 26, 2018
  17. ↑ U-15 BOY'S NATIONAL TEAM OFF TO MOENCHENGLADBACH, GERMANY FOR FOREIGN TRAINING CAMP (English), accessed on July 26, 2018
  18. ↑ U-15 BNT DROPS 2-0 DECISION TO BORUSSIA MOENCHENGLADBACH , accessed on July 26, 2018
  19. ↑ 48 PLAYERS TO TRAIN WITH U-15 BOY'S NATIONAL TEAM IN ZAREPHATH, NJ , accessed July 26, 2018
  20. ↑ US U-17 MNT ROSTER SET FOR NIKE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES IN PHOENIX , accessed on July 26, 2018
  21. ^ US U-17 MNT OPENS 2009 NIKE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES WITH 1-2 LOSS TO PORTUGAL , accessed on July 26, 2018
  22. ↑ US U-17 MNT RALLIES TO 1-1 DRAW WITH BRAZIL AT NIKE INTERNATIONAL FRIENDLIES , accessed on July 26, 2018
  23. ↑ CABRERA NAMES 40-PLAYER ROSTER FOR SPRING SEMESTER OF US SOCCER RESIDENCY PROGRAM , accessed on July 26, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Gulley, ladles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Clinton , Mississippi , United States