Kevin Coleman (soccer player)

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Kevin Coleman
Personnel
Surname Kevin Jessie Coleman
birthday March 1, 1998
place of birth Fairfax , Virginia ,  USA
size 178 cm
position Strikers and wingers
Juniors
Years station
0000–2015 Kettle Run High School
2014-2015 Baltimore Celtic
2015-2017 1. FC Kaiserslautern
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2018 SpVgg Bayreuth 12 (0)
2018 SpVgg Bayreuth II 5 (0)
2019– Orange County SC 13 (1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
~ 2011 ~ USA U-14
~ 2014 ~ USA U-17
1 Only league games are given.
As of January 8, 2020

Kevin Jessie Coleman (born March 1, 1998 in Fairfax , Virginia ) is an American football player of Ghanaian descent in the position of a striker and winger .

Career

Career start

Kevin Coleman was born on March 1, 1998 in the small town of Fairfax in the north of the US state Virginia to Sabina and Alfred Coleman and grew up here on the side of his brother Tim. Coleman began playing soccer as a child and was first enrolled in a training club by his parents when he was six. The young offensive player was summoned to a US junior national team at an early age. Coleman gained his first experience in a national team of the US American Football Association at the age of 13 at a training camp for the US U-14 team in Los Angeles . In his youth, Coleman appeared under coach Phillip Roper for the soccer team of the Kettle Run High School in Nokesville, founded in 2008, and played for them up to and including his sophomore year. In this very same team he won the regional championship and at the end of it was elected 3A Player of the Year , as well as a midfielder in the 3A Boys All-State First Team . In his sophomore year of high school, he had 12 hits and 17 assists; the year before there were ten goals and 16 assists.

As early as the summer of 2014, he completed trial training sessions at various Italian clubs, including Juventus Turin , and then traveled to London to audition for clubs such as Chelsea , Fulham and Tottenham Hotspur . Parallel to his school career, he also appeared as a football player for the youth education club Baltimore Celtic at least from 2014 to 2015 in Owings Mills , a northern suburb of Baltimore , Maryland, about an hour and a half away by car . In early 2014 Coleman was also invited to participate in the US Under-17 Residency Program at the IMG Academy in Bradenton , Florida , where he was promised to serve for the US Under-17 national team . After taking part in a tournament in Germany with the Olympic Development Team (ODP) Region I Team at the end of the 2015 regular championship , where he was awarded the Golden Boot as the top scorer after six goals in seven games , German football clubs also announced their interest in the Coleman, who can be used in attack as well as in midfield. He also played in two games against the U-19 team of 1. FC Kaiserslautern , scoring three goals and providing an assist.

Move to Germany

He was then invited to a two-week trial training session by the Kaiserslautern club and given a contract as a result. From August 2015 Coleman was now registered with 1. FC Kaiserslautern, but did not take part in any official youth games for several months. It was only towards the end of the A-Juniors Regionalliga Südwest 2015/16, when Kaiserslautern was promoted to the A-Juniors Bundesliga as champions , that Coleman made four championship appearances , where he contributed one goal. From the A-Junioren-Bundesliga 2016/17 , the US-American was included in the club's U-19 squad, but was on the bench most of the time. He seldom came on short missions, mostly lasting only a few minutes, for the team, which at the end of the season ranked second in the South / Southwest relay . In twelve league appearances, the now 18-year-old offensive player had only one goal. Furthermore, he was used in a quarter-final match of the DFB-Junioren-Vereinspokal 2016/17 against the age colleagues of FC Ingolstadt 04 , where he made two assists for his teammates. In addition, he was only used in test and friendly matches, as well as in the association cup and in an indoor soccer tournament.

In the summer of 2017 Coleman was without a club and stayed primarily in Germany to find a new club here. Only in spring 2018 did he find one with SpVgg Bayreuth , which he joined in May 2018. In the last championship game of the Regionalliga Bayern in 2017/18 , the American made his debut in men's football when he came on the pitch in the 82nd minute of the game for Chris Wolf in the 1: 4 home defeat against the traditional club 1860 Munich . The Bayreuth ranked at the end of the season on the 17th of 19 table seats and thus on a relegation place. In the relegation games to remain in the Regionalliga Bayern , Coleman came in the first leg for another short assignment; due to the away goals rule , the team stayed in the Bavarian regional league after a 2-2 draw in the first leg and a 1-1 draw in the second leg. In the Bavarian Cup 2017/18 , the winger played another role in the final against 1. FC Schweinfurt 05 when he was substituted on for Patrick Weimar by coach Josef Albersinger in the 75th minute . His contract, which expired at the end of the season, was subsequently extended.

In the Regionalliga Bayern 2018/19 , Bayreuth started the season weak and lost the first six games, five of which Coleman played from the start. The team only scored their first points towards the end of August, although the American's missions were already decreasing at this point. From mid-September 2018 he was almost exclusively on the substitute bench and only rarely made short appearances from it or did not even belong to the extended squad. During this time he gained match practice with the second team of SpVgg Bayreuth with play in the seventh-class district league Upper Franconia East, in which he made five league appearances and one goal. During the winter break - SpVgg Bayreuth had meanwhile broken away from the bottom of the table - Coleman was released from his duties and had to go looking for a club again.

Return to the Homeland

In January 2019, he completed an unsuccessful trial training with the second team of FC Schalke 04 and soon returned to his home country, where he signed with Orange County SC in March 2019 with play in the USL Championship . After previously sitting unused on the bench in two games, he made his professional debut on June 22, 2019 when he played for Joe Amico in the 79th minute of the 0-2 home defeat against the Portland Timbers 2 by coach Braeden Cloutier came onto the field. Even after that he made short appearances and made 13 league appearances, one goal and two assists in the 2019 game year . Fifth place in the Western Conference of the regular time, he moved with the Orange County SC in the subsequent championship-winning play-offs. However, the team was eliminated in the first game, the quarter-finals against the Real Monarchs , after a 6-2 defeat from the play-offs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f European professional soccer teams looking at Kettle Run's Kevin Coleman ( Memento from August 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 15, 2019
  2. ↑ a b KR’s Coleman named top player in 3A boys soccer (English), accessed on July 15, 2019
  3. ↑ Boys soccer 3A all-state teams announced ( Memento from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 15, 2019
  4. ↑ Kettle Run's Coleman close to signing with German soccer team ( Memento from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on July 15, 2019
  5. ↑ KADER ALMOST COMPLETE: FOUR MORE NEW ADDITIONS , accessed on July 15, 2019
  6. ↑ SpVgg: Flügelflitzer comes from Schweinfurt , accessed on July 15, 2019
  7. ↑ Old Town Training Start - All men on board except for two players , accessed on July 15, 2019
  8. ↑ FORWARD KEVIN COLEMAN JOINS ORANGE COUNTY SC (English), accessed on July 15, 2019
  9. ↑ Orange County SC sign forward Kevin Coleman , accessed July 15, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Coleman, Kevin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coleman, Kevin Jessie (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Fairfax , Virginia , United States