Rey Ángel Martínez

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Rey Ángel Martínez
Personnel
Surname Rey Ángel Martínez Mendive
birthday May 13, 1980
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1998-2002 Fútbol Club Ciudad de La Habana (at least 20)
2004 Colorado Rapids 7 (0)
2005-2008 Rochester Rhinos 48 (8)
2008 Carolina RailHawks 0 (0)
2009 Real Maryland Monarchs 5 (0)
2009 Atlético de San Juan FC 4 (0)
Indoor
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2008 Baltimore Blast
2008-2009 New Jersey Ironmen
2009-2010 Philadelphia Kixx
2011-2013 Rochester Lancers
2013-2014 Syracuse Silver Knights
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Cuba U-23
Cuba 17th
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2013-2014 Syracuse Silver Knights (indoor soccer)
2014– Rochester Lancers (indoor soccer)
1 Only league games are given.

Rey Ángel Martínez Mendive (born May 13, 1980 in Havana ) is a former Cuban football player and current assistant coach.

Athletic career

Beginnings in Cuba

Playing for the selection of the capital province of Havana since 1998 , the 1.84 m tall striker Martínez , later called “boom-boom”, won the Cuban championship that year and 2001 with his team . In the championship year 1998 he contributed to the success with seven goals scored. He met nine times in 2000/01. In the seasons 1999/2000 and 2001/2002 (4 goals) he also won two runner-up championships with the club. Martínez was active both for the U-23 selection of his home country and for the Cuban national soccer team , for which he completed 17 international matches until 2002. He was part of his country's team at the Copa Caribe and Pan American Games .

Escape and start of professional career in the USA

Martínez left the Cuban team with his national team colleague Alberto Delgado during the CONCACAF Gold Cup in Los Angeles in January 2002 after they had initially asked the Cuban American National Foundation for help. Both applied for political asylum in order to stay in the US. They first settled in Miami , where an uncle Martínez lived and in whose company he could occasionally work. While Delgado and Martínez waited to receive their residence permits, they played for a season on the St. Thomas University team , as well as for local club teams. Martínez signed in June 2004 a contract with the Major League Soccer team Chicago Fire , from which he was immediately given in a swap to the Colorado Rapids . That made Martínez the first Cuban in the MLS. For the Colorado Rapids he was used in the MLS in seven league encounters and one playoff game. From 2005 to 2008 he played in the USL First Division for the Rochester Rhinos , where he played 48 regular season games as well as seven playoff and six cup games. In August 2008, he joined the Carolina RailHawks for the remainder of the season . In 2009 he went to the Real Maryland Monarchs , for whom he played five times in the USL Second Division . Also in 2009 he was in the ranks of Atlético de San Juan FC , where he was used four times in the Puerto Rico Soccer League .

Indoor soccer

From autumn 2005 Martínez played professional indoor soccer for the first time , initially in the Major Indoor Soccer League for the St. Louis Steamers. With the Baltimore Blast he won the 2008 MISL championship. Until the end of his active career in 2014, he played in the Xtreme Soccer League and the Major Indoor Soccer League for the teams of the New Jersey Ironmen, the Philadelphia Kixx, the Rochester Lancers and, at the end of his active career, the Syracuse Silver Knights, where he acted as a player-coach. Since the beginning of the 2014/2015 season, Martínez has been the assistant coach of the Rochester Lancers indoor soccer team, for which he was a player between 2011 and 2013.

successes

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from November 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 4, 2015
  2. ↑ profile on www.bdfa.com.ar , accessed on May 4, 2015
  3. ↑ # 35 - Rey "Boom Boom" Martinez  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 24, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / misl.uslsoccer.com  
  4. ↑ Daisy Nguyen: Cuban defectors had asked for help. In: USA Today, January 28, 2002, accessed May 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ a b Rey Ángel Martínez, primer futbolista cubano que jugará en la Major League Soccer. In: Cuba Encuentro (Spanish) June 14, 2004, accessed May 4, 2015
  6. ^ Michelle Kaufman: Cuban defectors a first for MLS. In: Miami Herald of June 13, 2004, accessed via CubaNet on May 4, 2015 (English)
  7. ^ Fire Discovers Forward Rey Angel Martinez, Sends to Rapids for 2005 MLS SuperDraft Selection. Announcement on the official website of the MLS, accessed on May 4, 2015 (English)
  8. ↑ Rey Ángel Martínez in the database of MLSSoccer.com (English), accessed on May 4, 2015 (English)
  9. ↑ 2012 Rhinos media guide. ( Memento of the original from May 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rhinossoccer.com.ismmedia.com 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. (PDF), official website of Rochester Rhinos, accessed on May 4, 2015 (English)
  10. ↑ RailHawks add Rhinos' Martinez ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2011 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) of August 21, 2008, accessed November 23, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / usl1.uslsoccer.com
  11. ↑ # 35 - Rey "Boom Boom" Martinez  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed November 24, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / misl.uslsoccer.com  
  12. ↑ a b Rey 'Boom Boom' Martinez returns! ( Memento of the original from September 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rochesterlancers.com 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. Announcement on the official Rochester Lancers website dated October 9, 2014, accessed May 4, 2015
  13. ↑ Roster, ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rochesterlancers.com 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. from the Rochester Lancers official website, accessed May 4, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Martínez, Rey Ángel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martínez Mendive, Rey Ángel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana , Cuba