Omar Holness

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Omar Holness
Personnel
birthday March 13, 1994
place of birth Kingston ,  Jamaica
size 183 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
Real Mona
2013-2015 North Carolina Tar Heels
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2009-2011 Real Mona
2014 Portland Timbers U23s 5 (1)
2016– Real Salt Lake 0 (0)
2016– → Real Monarchs (farm team) 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2011 Jamaica U17 8 (0)
2012-2013 Jamaica U20 6 (1)
2014-2015 Jamaica U23 6 (1)
2014– Jamaica 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of April 7, 2016

2 As of April 7, 2016

Omar Holness (* 13. March 1994 in Kingston ) is a Jamaican footballer who in the squad of 2016 for Real Salt Lake with gaming operations in the Major League Soccer , is the highest North American Football League.

Club career

Career start at home and college career

Omar Holness was born on March 13, 1994 to Duke and Suzanne Holness in the Jamaican capital Kingston, where he grew up with his older brother Nickolai (* 1991). He began his career as a soccer player while at elementary school and played alongside his brother throughout his childhood and adolescence. Both later played soccer at Wolmer's Boys School before the older of the two brothers continued his men's career with the Jamaican second division club Real Mona . At the age of 15, Omar Holness also made the leap into the second division team and was active in it until around 2011. After he had already completed missions for the U-17 and U-20 national teams of his home country, he caught the attention of the coach of the men's soccer team of the North Carolina Tar Heels , Carlos Somoano , in the latter . Through Somoano, he came to the United States in 2013 to study , where, after enrolling at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he was used in their men's soccer team in the North Carolina Tar Heels sports department. His older brother had already come to the University of Tampa a few years earlier , but was only active there briefly before returning to his home country.

In his freshman year at UNC, he developed into a core force in the midfield of his team. With the team he came as a semi-finalist in the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament 2013 to the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2013 , where he led his team, after a first round goal against the South Florida Bulls , to the second round of Regional 2 and there the UC Irvine Anteaters narrowly lost 0-1. Although the early exit from the competition, Omar Holness, who had made 20 championship appearances, two goals and three assists, was elected to the Soccer America All Freshman team at the end of the season . He was also part of the ACC All Freshman Team and ranked 29th on Top Drawer Soccer ’s Top 100 Freshman List. With a total of 40 shots, he led his team in this category in 2013. In the following year, 2014, he was able to improve his stats again and started in midfield in all 22 league games of his team. As in the previous year, the Jamaican scored two goals again, but contributed seven assists for his teammates. In the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament in 2014 still in the quarterfinals against the Louisville Cardinals 0: 1 excreted, managed the team in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship in 2014 to the quarter-finals. Only then did the team lose to the UCLA Bruins men's soccer team on penalties. In his four NCAA appearances alone, Holness, who formed a congenial duo with Andy Craven , scored one goal and four of his seven assists. Elections to the NSCAA All South Region Second Team and the All ACC First Team followed at the end of the year .

During the free time at the university, Omar Holness also played in five league games for the Portland Timbers U23s in the fourth-rate Premier Development League , an amateur league, in 2014 and scored one goal. In the junior year 2015, the stakes of the Holness , which had meanwhile even been active for the senior national team of his home country , decreased somewhat. He scored one goal and one assist in 17 championship games. After he was eliminated in the quarterfinals with the North Carolina Tar Heels in the ACC Men's Soccer Tournament 2015 after a penalty loss to Syracuse University , he was eliminated with the team in the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2015 in the third round of Regional 2 against Creighton University . In that year he was also employed through the school's Rising Stars program at the Richard A. Baddour Carolina Leadership Academy , was in his home country's A-squad at the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015 , as well as in the Jamaican U-23 squad at the Olympic qualification.

Breakthrough into professional football

In January 2016, through the Generation Adidas joint venture , the Jamaican international was given the opportunity to switch to professional football before the end of his studies, but still had the opportunity to continue his studies at a later point in time if the step into professional football did not work immediately. Via the MLS SuperDraft 2016 , Holness was finally drafted as the fifth pick in the first round to the MLS franchise Real Salt Lake . Subsequently, he was sent to the Real Monarchs farm team in the third-tier North American United Soccer League in March 2016, after being on the bench for the first time in the MLS game against the Seattle Sounders on March 12, 2016 . He made his professional debut with the Monarchs on March 26, 2016 in a 1-0 home win over Saint Louis FC , when he was used by Freddy Juarez from the start, but collapsed in the 33rd minute without any outside influence, collapsed and immediately went to hospital was brought. One day after his seizure, the Jamaican was released from the hospital, but had to stay away from the game for the time being.

National team career

Omar Holness gained his first experience while attending high school in his Jamaican homeland. In 2011 he was used for the first time in the U-17 national team of his home country , for which he made eight international appearances in the same year. With the team he finished the CONCACAF U-17 championship of 2011 in fourth place and thus qualified for the subsequent U-17 soccer world championship in 2011 in Mexico . Under the former Jamaican international Wendell Downswell , Holness then took part in the World Cup finals as team captain. With the team he retired from the tournament as the bottom of group B early; he himself was used in all three games against Japan , France and Argentina . From the following year he came to regular assignments in the Jamaican U-20 national team , in which he was sometimes also vice-captain. With the team he took among others at the CONCACAF Under-20 Championship of the year 2013 again in Mexico in part. He himself made three international appearances and was only eliminated from his home country in the quarter-finals against eventual tournament winner Mexico .

Through his assignments, he also asserted himself for the U-23 selection of his home country with which he took part in the qualification for the soccer tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the CONCACAF main qualification round, which took place from the beginning to mid-October 2015, he was no longer able to participate with the Jamaicans, as he and the team only finished the previous qualification in third place and thus did not qualify for the main qualification round. A year earlier, Winfried Schäfer called up Holness for the first time in the Jamaican senior national team for an international match against Canada at the beginning of September 2014 . In the subsequent friendly game four days later, Holness was used in the 1: 3 defeat of Reggae Boyz from the 79th minute of the game for striker Deshorn Brown . In July 2015, the midfielder under Winfried Schäfer was in the Jamaican 23-man squad that took part in the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup in the United States and Canada . The team made it to the finals and only lost 3-1 to record winner Mexico . Omar Holness was on the substitute bench in three of his team's six games.

Web links

Footnotes & individual references

  1. ^ Omar Holness gets to play in the league of his idols , accessed April 7, 2016
  2. ↑ Nickolai Holness on the official Tampa Spartans website , accessed April 7, 2016
  3. ↑ Statistics of the Portland Timbers U23s in the game year 2014 ( Memento from January 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on April 7, 2016
  4. ↑ MLS announces 2016 Generation adidas class, signs Stanford senior defender Brandon Vincent , accessed April 7, 2016
  5. ↑ RSL picks Omar Holness with 5th pick in 2016 MLS Draft , accessed April 7, 2016
  6. ↑ Real Salt Lake SuperDraft pick Omar Holness suffers apparent seizure , accessed April 7, 2016
  7. ↑ RSL midfielder Omar Holness released from hospital after suffering seizure during Real Monarchs game , accessed April 7, 2016
  8. ↑ Omar Holness' tournament profile on the official FIFA website , accessed on April 7, 2016
  9. ↑ Omar Holness on prospectxi.com (English), accessed April 7, 2016
  10. ↑ Holness Called To Jamaican National Team , accessed April 7, 2016
  11. ↑ Canada - Jamaica (3: 1) (English), accessed April 7, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Holness, Omar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingston , Jamaica