Sal Zizzo

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Sal Zizzo
Sal Zizzo Timbers 2011.jpg
Salvatore Zizzo (2011)
Personnel
Surname Salvatore Zizzo Jr.
birthday April 3, 1987
place of birth San Diego ,  California , USA
size 180 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Hotspurs USA
0000–2005 Patrick Henry High School
2005-2006 UCLA Bruins
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2007 Orange County Blue Star 13 (5)
2007-2010 Hanover 96 II 45 (8)
2008-2010 Hannover 96 8 (0)
2010 CD Chivas USA 10 (0)
2011-2013 Portland Timbers 60 (2)
2014 Sporting Kansas City 19 (0)
2015-2017 New York Red Bulls 73 (0)
2018 Atlanta United 6 (0)
2018 Atlanta United 2 1 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007 USA U-20 5 (0)
2008 USA U-23 2 (0)
2007 United States 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
Status: February 7, 2020

2 As of August 24, 2007

Salvatore "Sal" Zizzo (born April 3, 1987 in San Diego , California ) is an American football player .

In addition to being an American citizen, he also has an Italian passport, as his parents are from Palermo .

Career

society

Zizzo started playing soccer with the UCLA Bruins . Between 2006 and 2007 he played 13 games in which he scored 5 goals for Orange County Blue Star in the USL Premier Development League , the fourth-highest division in the United States. As a pure amateur league, it is particularly popular with students and older schoolchildren, as they can gain experience in a football club there.

At the end of July 2007, Zizzo moved to Hannover 96 in the Bundesliga . The 1.80 m tall midfielder plays on the right wing. He wore the shirt number 37 for Lower Saxony. He played for the major part of the 2007/08 season for the league team, only on the last two match days he was also used by the professionals. On July 2, 2009, Zizzo was loaned to Fortuna Düsseldorf for the 2009/2010 season. This agreement was terminated a short time later because he had contracted stomach and intestinal flu. In October 2009 he suffered a ruptured cruciate ligament and was unable to complete the 2009/2010 season.

His contract with Hanover expired in 2010, after which he moved back to the United States and joined the CD Chivas USA .

In his first season in Major League Soccer, he completed ten games for the Chivas. On February 15, 2011, he moved to the Portland Timbers . There he stayed for the next three years and played 60 league games.

On December 13, 2013, he was passed on to Sporting Kansas City for a transfer fee . After one season, he took part in the MLS Expansion Draft for the new New York City FC franchise on December 10, 2014 . He was selected by the New Yorkers, who swapped him for goalkeeper Ryan Meara from New York Red Bulls .

For the 2018 season, Zizzo moved to Atlanta United . He came to 6 MLS appearances (once from the start) and to a use in the farm team Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship .

National team

Zizzo played his first game for the USA's A-selection against Sweden in August 2007 . Before that, he took part in the 2007 Junior World Cup in Canada as a U-20 national player in the USA .

Trivia

  • Zizzo can be seen in the music video " Too Little Too Late " by the American singer JoJo . In the video released in 2006 you can see him with his teammates from the UCLA Bruins.
  • He has been married to actress Destiny Moniz since November 2013.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Meet Your United States U-20 Team - New York Times ( English ) The New York Times . July 6, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
  2. ^ Zizzo change to Düsseldorf burst ( German ) Hannoversche Allgemeine . July 12, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
  3. ^ Sal Zizzo tears ACL, done for season ( English ) American Soccer News. October 13, 2009. Retrieved February 23, 2011.
  4. ↑ Portland Timbers acquire midfielder Sal Zizzo from Chivas USA ( English ) Chicago Tribune . February 16, 2011. Archived from the original on May 26, 2020. Retrieved on February 23, 2011.
  5. ↑ http://www.newyorkredbulls.com/news/2014/12/red-bulls-loan-goalkeeper-ryan-meara-new-york-city-fc-2015-season
  6. ^ Sal Zizzo joins Atlanta United. In: vavel.com. February 1, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018 .

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Commons : Salvatore Zizzo  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Zizzo, Sal
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zizzo, Salvatore (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH San Diego , California, USA