Kenneth Kronholm
| Kenneth Kronholm | ||
 Kenneth Kronholm (2014)
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| Personnel | ||
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| birthday | October 14, 1985 | |
| place of birth | Fort Belvoir , Virginia , USA | |
| size | 189 cm | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1999-2000 | SG Oftersheim | |
| 2000-2003 | SV Waldhof Mannheim | |
| 2003-2004 | VfL Wolfsburg | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 2004 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 0 (0) |
| 2005 | FC Carl Zeiss Jena | 0 (0) |
| 2005-2006 | Wormatia worms | 5 (0) |
| 2006-2007 | Fortuna Dusseldorf | 13 (0) |
| 2007 | FSV Frankfurt | 6 (0) |
| 2008-2009 | Hansa Rostock II | 13 (0) |
| 2009-2010 | Eintracht Trier | 22 (0) |
| 2010 | SV Waldhof Mannheim | 0 (0) |
| 2011 | SSV Jahn Regensburg | 0 (0) |
| 2011–2012 | VfR Mannheim | 12 (0) |
| 2012-2014 | SV Elversberg | 74 (0) |
| 2014-2019 | Holstein Kiel | 135 (0) |
| 2019– | Chicago Fire | 3 (0) |
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1 Only league games are given. As of June 10, 2019 |
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Kenneth Kronholm (born October 14, 1985 in Fort Belvoir , Virginia , USA ) is a German - American football goalkeeper who has been under contract with Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer since May 2019 .
Career
From the Electoral Palatinate to Wolfsburg
As the son of a German and an American, Kenneth Kronholm was born in Fort Belvoir , Virginia , but grew up mostly in the Electoral Palatinate region around Heidelberg . As a child, initially handball player like his grandfather Edwin Muth, who was in the goal of the German national field handball team three times , Kronholm only began playing club football in 1999 and joined SG Oftersheim , for which he was initially a striker in the C-youth was active. Kronholm only became a goalkeeper in the B-youth , switched to the youth team of the Electoral Palatinate SV Waldhof Mannheim in 2000 and joined VfL Wolfsburg in 2003 . While he initially ran for Wolfsburg in the A-Juniors Bundesliga , Kronholm was also part of the squad of the VfL second team, with whom he won the fourth division in the fourth-tier Oberliga Nord in May 2004 .
Via Jena to the Rhineland
In January 2005, Kronholm joined FC Carl Zeiss Jena and won the championship of the 2004/05 season of the Oberliga Nordost with this , but again without having come to a league game. Then Kronholm left the club in July 2005 in the direction of VfR Wormatia Worms , for which he played five games in the Oberliga Südwest .
In July 2006, Kronholm moved on to Fortuna Dusseldorf in the third-class regional league , in which he was the goalkeeper of Fortunes with 13 appearances in the second half of the 2006/07 season . After he had lost his regular place again for disciplinary reasons up to an injury to goalkeeping competitor Patrick Deuss, Kronholm moved to regional league competitor FSV Frankfurt in the summer of 2007 .
Frankfurt and Rostock
In Frankfurt Kronholm initially made six appearances in the first half of the 2007/08 season , but then lost his place in the starting XI to Florian Schürenberg. During the winter break, Kronholm then completed a trial training session with the English club Ipswich Town , then with the German Bundesliga club Hansa Rostock . He was able to convince in Rostock and moved as the new third goalkeeper behind Stefan Wächter and Jörg Hahnel, initially to FC Hansa until June 2009. In return, Rostock's previous third goalkeeper Patric Klandt went to Frankfurt.
In Rostock, Kronholm first played for the second substitute trained by Thomas Finck in the fourth-class Oberliga Nordost and contributed with seven appearances in the 2007/08 season to qualify the team for the fourth-class regional league from 2008/09 . At the end of the season he was needed as a substitute goalkeeper after a serious injury to the goalkeeper of the first Rostock team trained by Frank Pagelsdorf , so that he initially did not make any further appearances for Hansa's second substitute. In April 2009, however, Kronholm was deleted from the professional squad by Andreas Zachhuber, who now acts as a trainer, together with Heath Pearce and assigned entirely to the reserve team.
Via Rhineland-Palatinate to Regensburg
When his contract in Rostock ran out in the summer of 2009, Kronholm moved to the regional league team Eintracht Trier , with whom he finished last in the relay west in 2009/10 after 22 missions. However, since three teams of this season did not receive a license for the following season 2010/11 , Trier remained despite the poor performance in the fourth division. Kronholm joined the fifth division SV Waldhof Mannheim for the following season , where he was only substitute goalkeeper behind Markus Kolke. In January 2011, Kronholm then moved to third division Jahn Regensburg after completing a trial training . However, this engagement ended after just six months in summer 2011.
Mannheim and Elversberg
Kronholm was signed on August 5, 2011 by VfR Mannheim for the Oberliga Baden-Württemberg . After a year he moved to the Saarland regional division SV Elversberg , with whom he was promoted to the 3rd division at the end of the 2012/13 season . On July 20, 2013 Kronholm made his professional debut in the third division game against SV Darmstadt 98 (0-0). With the sports association, he went back to the regional league after only one season.
Holstein Kiel
For the 2014/15 season , Kronholm moved to the third division Holstein Kiel . He signed a contract until June 30, 2016. He was able to prevail against Niklas Jakusch and Maximilian Riedmüller as the new number 1 among the storks. In the summer of 2015 he tore a cruciate ligament in his left knee.
Change to the USA
Beginning in May 2019 changed Kronholm for MLS - Franchise Chicago Fire . He received a contract with a term until December 31, 2021 with an option for a further year.
Web links
- Kenneth Kronholm in the database of weltfussball.de
- Kenneth Kronholm in the database of fussballdaten.de
- Kronholm profile on the VfR Wormatia Worms website
- Kenneth Kronholm in the database of the German Football Association
- Kenneth Kronholm in the database of kicker.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kenneth Kronholm - player profile. In: transfermarkt.de. Retrieved June 10, 2015 .
- ↑ Second chance for Kronholm. In: RP Online. Rheinische Post, May 1, 2007, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ FC Hansa sign Kenneth Kronholm. Hansa Rostock, January 29, 2008, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Pearce and Kronholm downgraded to second team. Hansa Rostock, April 13, 2009, accessed on August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Holstein Kiel signs Kenneth Kronholm from Elversberg. In: liga3-online.de. June 6, 2014, accessed August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Shock for Kiel: Kronholm suffers cruciate ligament tear. In: liga3-online.de. August 20, 2015, accessed August 20, 2015 .
- ↑ Chicago Fire Soccer Club Acquires Goalkeeper Kenneth Kronholm , chicago-fire.com, May 7, 2019, accessed May 8, 2019.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Kronholm, Kenneth |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American football goalkeeper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 14, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fort Belvoir , Virginia , USA |