McKinze Gaines

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McKinze Gaines
Personnel
Surname Orrin McKinze Gaines II
birthday March 2, 1998
place of birth Austin ,  Texas , USA
size 181 cm
position Sturm , midfield
Juniors
Years station
2011–0000 Forza Sports Academy
0000–2016 Lonestar SC
2016-2017 VfL Wolfsburg
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2017-2019 SV Darmstadt 98 2 (0)
2019 →  FSV Zwickau  (loan) 9 (0)
2019-2020 SG Sonnenhof Großaspach 24 (3)
2020– Hanover 96 II 0 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2012–201? USA U15 0
2014-2015 USA U17 30 (5)
2016 USA U19 2 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 17, 2020

Orrin McKinze Gaines II , mostly just McKinze Gaines , (born March 2, 1998 in Austin , Texas ) is an American football player . The offensive player is under contract with Hannover 96 and is a multiple junior national player.

Career

Career start at home

Orrin McKinze Gaines II was born on March 2, 1998 as the eldest of four children (two sisters and one brother) of the Latina Meredith Williams Gaines (* 1971) and the African American Orrin Gaines (* 1966) in Austin, the capital of the US state Texas , born and started playing soccer at the age of four. In his home country he appeared at the age of 13 for the youth training club Forza Sports Academy and later for the Lonestar SC . Today (as of 2018) his younger brother Julian (* 2002), also an American junior national player, is used for this. In 2013 he took part in an Academy Select Game hosted by the US Soccer Development Academy (USSDA) , with Lonestar SC at the time being the only USSDA-owned club in Austin and one of 72 USSDA-owned clubs in the United States . Through the USSDA, he also came into direct contact with the junior national teams of the United States and was already a regular in the U15 national team in 2012. In the course of his career, the offensive player has received several awards, including in 2015 when he was voted NSCAA High School All-American of the year 2015 by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America (NSCAA) .

Move to Germany

In March of this year he was already training with the U15 and U17 teams of the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg . Another training session with the Germans followed in January 2016. On March 11, 2016, a few days after his 18th birthday, Gaines signed his contract with VfL Wolfsburg and in summer 2016 Gaines made the leap to Europe and was accepted into the club's youth department. The month before, he had decided against a professional career and instead a college career and was presented as a new commitment by UCLA in February 2016 . After VfL Wolfsburg made concrete contact, Gaines was able to change his mind again. The move to Germany came about primarily through his agent Jacob Thomas , who had played in Germany for years and briefly in the Major League Soccer .

In Wolfsburg he was used for their U19 selection and was a regular player; During the season he was used under coach Thomas Reis in 19 of 26 possible league games, where he scored seven goals. With VfL Wolfsburg he was subsequently champion of the North / Northeast relay , one of four parallel seasons of the A-Junioren-Bundesliga. In the final round of the German A-Junior Championship in 2017, he and the team were eliminated in the semifinals against their peers from Borussia Dortmund . Gaines was used on both legs.

In the summer of 2017 he moved to the relegated SV Darmstadt 98 in the 2nd Bundesliga , although his traditional club has the option of a buyback. He made his professional debut on August 12, 2017 in the 1st main round of the DFB-Pokal 2017/18 , when he was used from the start in a 1: 3 defeat against SSV Jahn Regensburg and from the 56th minute of play by the Slovenian international Roman Bezjak was replaced. About two months later, on October 16, 2017, he made his league debut under coach Torsten Frings in a 3: 4 home defeat against 1. FC Nürnberg , when he was on the field from the 51st minute as a substitute for the former German national player Kevin Großkreutz sent. Only four days later he came to another championship appearance and completed the entire first half in a 0-1 defeat against Fortuna Düsseldorf . After that, he was not considered by Frings or his successor Dirk Schuster , who was engaged in December 2017 .

For the second half of the 2018/19 season Gaines was loaned to third division club FSV Zwickau , for which he only played nine league games.

After his return, the American completed part of the preparation for the season with Darmstadt, but was then sold to SG Sonnenhof Großaspach , also a third division team. His contract with the village club was valid until June 2021. In 26 competitive games, Gaines, who was used on both offensive wings, scored four goals and prepared two more. Only in the end of the season he was used regularly, but rose with SG Sonnenhof as the table penultimate in the regional league . This was followed by a move to Hannover 96 , where he will play in the U23 .

National team career

At the age of 13 and 14 respectively, Gaines made the leap into the U15 national team of his home country and was already a regular player in 2012.

Around 2013 or, according to other sources, not until 2014, Gaines was a member of the US Soccer Residency Program of the US U17 national team . In 2014, under Richie Williams , he made 22 international appearances with the U17 team, leading these statistics together with Haji Wright , who made just as many appearances. In these 22 missions he started in ten games from the beginning, came to a total of 955 minutes and contributed five hits. He was also used in unofficial games of the US U17 national team, including scoring a hat trick in a game against the University of Portland on March 12, 2014 . The Under-17 national team, he remained true to the following year and completed in the eight other official international matches, including, the only player of his team, all four games of Americans in preparing for the CONCACAF Under-17 Championship of the year 2015 . For the finals taking place in Panama , however, he was no longer considered by the new coach John Hackworth ; without his participation, the team reached the final and only lost it on penalties against their colleagues from Mexico .

In February 2016 he made two official international appearances for the US U19 team coached by Brad Friedel .

successes

VfL Wolfsburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ “I'm fearless in the square” , accessed on February 7, 2018
  2. ↑ Orrin McKinze Gaines II on the Forza Sports Academy official website, accessed February 7, 2018
  3. ↑ Julian Gaines on TopDrawerSoccer.com (English), accessed February 7, 2018
  4. ^ Gaines Finds Platform For USMNT In Development Academy , accessed February 7, 2018
  5. ^ Gaines Recognized By NSCAA As Youth All American , accessed February 7, 2018
  6. ↑ a b c d e f German Gaines: An American signs abroad , (English), accessed on February 7, 2018
  7. ↑ a b SV Darmstadt 98 signed Orrin McKinze Gaines II from VfL Wolfsburg and Romuald Lacazette from TSV 1860 Munich , accessed on February 7, 2018
  8. ↑ SSV Jahn moves into the 2nd DFB Cup round , accessed on February 7, 2018
  9. ↑ Fortuna Düsseldorf - SV Darmstadt 98: Kujovic's early goal is enough for Fortuna to win , accessed on February 7, 2018
  10. ↑ Gaines on loan to FSV Zwickau , sv98.de, accessed on January 28, 2019
  11. ↑ Philipp Hercher moves to Kaiserslautern , sg94.de, accessed on July 8, 2019
  12. ↑ U23 obliges McKinze Gaines II , hannover96.de, accessed on July 17, 2020
  13. ↑ Gaines has trick leads U17s to win , accessed on February 7, 2018
  14. ↑ US U-19 MNT FALLS TO SPAIN 1-0 IN FIRST GAME OF COPA DEL ATLANTICO TOURNAMENT , accessed February 7, 2018
  15. ↑ U-19 MNT FALLS TO FRANCE IN COPA DEL ATLANTICO TOURNAMENT , accessed on February 7, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Gaines, McKinze
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gaines II, Orrin McKinze (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Austin , Texas , United States