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Personnel
Surname	Matthew R. Polster
birthday	June 8, 1993
place of birth	Milwaukee , Wisconsin ,  USA
size	183 cm
position	Midfielder and defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Palo Verde High School
2010	Colorado Rapids
2011-2014	Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2013	Victoria Highlanders	4 (0)
2014	Chicago Fire U-23	3 (0)
2015-2018	Chicago Fire	30 (0)
2019-2020	Glasgow Rangers	7 (0)
2020–	New England Revolution	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2015-2016	USA U23	11 (0)
2018	United States	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of July 9, 2020

Matthew "Matt" R. upholstery (* 8. June 1993 in Milwaukee , Wisconsin ) is an American football player at the position of midfielders and defender , who since 2020 in the squad of MLS franchises New England Revolution stands.

Club career

Career start in Las Vegas

Matt Polster was born on June 8, 1993 to Kurt and Debbie Polster in Milwaukee, the largest city in the US state of Wisconsin, but grew up mainly in Las Vegas , where he eventually went to high school with Palo Verde High School School attended. During his high school career, he scored 24 goals and twelve assists, all of which were ten goals and an assist in his senior year. His individually achieved awards during this time include elections for Inter-Regional-Winter-Super-Group-ODP-All-Star 2009 , Region-IV-ODP-Captain or Gatorade-Nevada-Boys-Soccer-Player- of the year . He was also voted All-4A-South-Nevada-Player twice in high school and just as often as All-4A-Sunset-Region-Player . In 2010 he was also a member of the US Youth Soccer Region IV Olympic Development Squad and was briefly a junior player in the U-17 academy team of the MLS franchise Colorado Rapids that year .

College Soccer at SIUE

In 2011 he moved to Southern Illinois University Edwardsville , SIUE for short, where he chose finance as his main course and was also active in the men's soccer team, the SIU Edwardsville Cougars , at the same time . Already in his junior year he was able to establish himself as a regular in the team under Kevin Kalish and made 20 championship appearances in which he scored three goals and prepared another six for his teammates. In the Missouri Valley Conference he was then named Freshman-of-the-Year at the end of the game year , was a team-internal Newcomer-of-the-Year and received an honorable mention from the All-MVC . In the game year 2012, his sophomore year, Polster appeared as a key player on the defensive of the Cougars and was therefore selected as a defender in the NSCAA All Region First team at the end of the season . With his 19 missions he was also elected to the All-MVC-First-Team , but also to the MVC-All-Tournament-Team . In the defensive line of the team he was anchored as a central defender this year . Because of his performance, he also received an honorable honor as an All-MVC-Scholar-Athlete .

Matt Polster achieved further individual successes in his junior year 2013, when he was elected to the NSCAA All-Region-Third-Team and for the second time in a row to the All-MVC-First-Team and the MVC-All-Tournament-Team was fetched. This year he was used again in 19 games, where he contributed four assists. This time he mostly appeared as a midfielder, but also played minutes on the position of a defender. After he was used from the beginning in all of his 58 missions in the last three years and thus acted as one of the mainstays, he was in the preseason watch list for the Hermann Trophy , which is awarded annually by the Missouri Athletic Club (MAC) highest possible individual award for a college football player. In his final senior year 2014, Polster started again in all of his 21 championship games and this year achieved a record of three goals and two assists. After the completed season he was in the NSCAA-All-West-Region -selection, was named MVC-Defensive-Player-of-the-Year and was in the NSCAA-Scholar-All-America-First-Team , in the MVC- Scholar-Athlete-First-Team , as well as elected to the MVC-All-Tournament-Team . After being an important pillar on the team's defensive last year, Matt Polster had a total of 79 championship games, each of which he was on the pitch from the start, as well as six hits and twelve assists.

During the free time at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, the defender was also used for American amateur clubs. In the 2013 season, he briefly belonged to the USL-PDL franchise Victoria Highlanders , for which he played in four league games and remained goalless himself. For the Highlanders, it was one of the most successful seasons in their old club history when they the Northwest Division abschlossen first, the Conference Semifinals and Finals over and then only in the semifinals to winning the championship with 0: 2 vs. Thunder Bay Chill defeated . In 2014, Polster was used in three championship games at Chicago Fire U-23 , another USL-PDL franchise, and again remained goalless. The team reached a third place in the final standings in the Great Lakes Division .

As a seventh draft pick in the MLS

On January 15, 2015, Matt Polster was drafted as the first round pick in seventh place for the MLS franchise Chicago Fire , in which he was also the first defender to be drafted in this MLS SuperDraft . On February 4 of the same year, the 1.83 m tall defender signed his first contract with a professional football team, which ran until the end of 2016. He then made his professional league debut for the Men in Red in the first round game, a 2-0 defeat against Los Angeles Galaxy , when he came on the lawn from the 63rd minute for Chris Ritter . Subsequently, Matt Polster was able to establish himself as a regular in the highest North American football league and was then used in almost every championship game from the start. By the end of the season, when he with the team only reached the last place in the Eastern Conference and in the summarized overall table, he had made 30 league appearances, of which he started in 27. He himself remained goalless and made no assists, but was often praised for his precise passing game and defensive quality. This was also decisive for three rookie-of-the-week elections in the course of Major League Soccer 2015 . Mostly he was used as a defensive midfielder that year, but was occasionally found further back in the defense.

Glasgow Rangers

Matt Polster joined the Glasgow Rangers on January 30, 2019 . A year later he left Scotland again and moved back to the USA for the New England Revolution .

National team career

On September 3, 2015, he was used for the first time under Andreas Herzog in a game of the US U-23 national team ; in the 0-1 loss to England's U-21s , he was used from the 63rd minute of play for Emerson Hyndman . In another use five days later against Qatar, he was used for the first time from the start and also for the first time over the full game. He then took part under Herzog in the 2015 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship , the qualifying tournament for the soccer tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics. He was used in all five games of his team and was with them after a clear group victory in Group A and a 2-0 defeat against the Honduran U-23 national team after a 2-0 victory in the game for 3rd place against Canada third. After the first and second place finishers in this qualifying tournament, in this case Mexico and Honduras, were automatically seeded for the Olympic tournament, in March 2016 the USA had to play a decisive round trip against Colombia , the runner-up in the 2015 U-20 South American Football Championship to compete. After this qualification phase in October 2015, Matt Polster took part with the team in November of the same year in two more friendly international matches against Brazil, each of which resulted in a defeat for the Americans.

Web links

• Matt Polster in the soccerway.com database
• Matt Polster on the official website of the SIU Edwardsville Cougars (English)
• Matt Polster in the MLSSoccer.com database
• Matt Polster on the official website of the US Football Association (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chicago Fire sign first-round SuperDraft pick Matt Polster to contract ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (English), accessed January 4, 2016 
2. ↑ Fire Fall at Defending Champion LA Galaxy in 2015 Opener , accessed January 4, 2016
3. ↑ SBI MLS Rookie of the Week: Matt Polster (English), accessed January 4, 2016
4. ↑ U-23 MNT vs. England 0-1 L (English), accessed January 4, 2016
5. ↑ U-23 MNT vs. Qatar 2-0 W , accessed January 4, 2016
6. ↑ QUALIFICATION SYSTEM - GAMES OF THE XXXI OLYMPIAD - RIO 2016 (PDF; English), accessed on January 4, 2016
7. ↑ Herzog Calls 19 Players to Brazil as #RoadToRio Continues , accessed on January 4, 2016