Sean Franklin

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Sean Franklin
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Sean Franklin (r), 2008
Personnel
Surname Sean Michael Franklin
birthday March 21, 1985
place of birth Panorama City , Los Angeles , California ,  USA
size 178 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Highland high school
2003-2007 Cal State Northridge Matadors
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2006-2007 San Fernando Valley Quakes 23 (4)
2008-2013 Los Angeles Galaxy 160 (5)
2014-2018 DC United 101 (3)
2018– Vancouver Whitecaps 11 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2007 USA U-20 1 (0)
2007 USA U-23 1 (0)
2011 United States 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of August 12, 2018

2 As of November 2, 2012

Sean Michael Franklin (born March 21, 1985 in Los Angeles , California ) is an American football player in the position of defensive player . Since 2018 he has been under contract with the Vancouver Whitecaps in Major League Soccer (MLS), the top division in North American football. In 2011 he made his debut for the national team of his home country .

Career

Career start and time at Cal State Northridge and the Quakes

Sean Franklin, born in 1985 in Panorama City , a district of Los Angeles, began his active football career at a young age. After he was only active as a hobby at first, he also played during his high school time at Highland High School in Palmdale , California . There he mostly trained under the regionally respected youth coach Danny Young and was also a three-time letter winner. In addition, he was named Golden League's Most Valuable Player in his senior year and made it to the All-Area-First-Team in 2003 after winning the Golden League championship with his team . He also led his team as captain in his senior year . After high school, the three-time letterman moved to California State University, Northridge , where his father was already active as a football player in the 1970s . There he quickly advanced to become one of the most successful defensive players in the history of the university's football team. After a year as a red shirt , he was only one of two players on the team in the following year, who were used in all 19 games of the season, only to be brought into the "All- Big-West-Conference- Second Team". In the same year he was also brought into the U-20 selection of the USA for the first time, in which he was not used. As a sophomore , he brought his best season performance at the university when he was used in 21 games and made six assists for his teammates after he had not succeeded once in the preseason. At the end of the season he was also awarded for his achievements with the election to the “All- Big-West-Conference- First-Team” and the election to the “All-Far-West-Region-Third-Team”.

In 2006 he was again in action as a regular member of the team and once again played in all 19 championship games. He got another four assists for his teammates and he was once again voted into the “All- Big-West-Conference- First Team”. He also made it into the "All-Far-West-Region-Second-Team" at the end of this year and also scored his first goal as a player in the Northridge Matadors , as the sports department at Cal State Northridge is called. This he succeeded on October 11, 2006 in a 4-1 win over the UC Irvine soccer team . In his free time at university, he spent much of his time with the San Fernando Valley Quakes in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), which is to be regarded as fourth class . He did this in the following year 2007, when he made it into the play-offs for the first time in the club's history, but broke his arm in the semifinals against the BYU Cougars , a university football team that played in the fourth-highest division, and so on had to end the season prematurely due to injury. Due to this injury, he also missed a large part of his college season, in which he only returned in the last eight games of the season and also scored his second and last goal for the Northridge Matadors in a 2-3 loss to UC Santa Barbara . By the time he left university, he had made a total of 65 championship appearances, ten assists and two goals, as well as 23 championship appearances and four hits with the Quakes in the fourth division.

Draft to Los Angeles Galaxy

In early 2008, after graduating from Cal State Northridge, Franklin was drafted as the best right full-back of the entire draft via the MLS SuperDraft 2008 in the first round as the fourth pick to Los Angeles Galaxy . This year he was one of six players who found their way to Los Angeles Galaxy via the MLS SuperDraft. After he was already on the bench in the season opening game of Galaxy and in the subsequent first home game of Galaxy in the new season was on the field for the first time, he quickly established himself in the team. After his professional debut on April 3, 2008 against the San José Earthquakes , when he played through the full game in central defense , he was used in another 26 games by the end of the season. The trained right full-back spent the majority of the game year 2008 in the position of a central defender and only had to miss two championship games in July due to a knee injury. In addition, he succeeded in this season also his first assist at Galaxy when he was the template for a goal scored by Edson Buddle in the 3-2 win over the Colorado Rapids on October 12, 2008. At the end of the season he was named Los Angeles Galaxy Best Defender and also received the MLS Rookie of the Year Award for the best rookie player in the entire league.

In 2009 he dropped out for several months due to an operation on his torn right Achilles tendon and only slowly returned to regular play afterwards. By the end of the season, he had only made 13 championship appearances in which, however, he was on the pitch in all of them from the start. This season he managed to assist again and was also a member of the team when it secured the championship title in the regular season in the “Western Conference” and thus paved the way for the final of the MLS Cup in 2009. Franklin, who was used in all four play-off games of his team, was also one of the key players in the team, which only lost to Real Salt Lake on penalties in the play-off final, the annual MLS Cup . The subsequent Major League Soccer 2010 went a little better for Franklin personally than the previous one. So he was once again a regular in the defense line of the team and brought it to a total of 25 championship appearances, of which he played in 24 from the start. He also made six assists for his teammates this season. With Los Angeles Galaxy at the end of the season he again ranked first in the "Western Conference" and qualified for the play-off again without any problems. In these, Franklin started in all three matches of his team, which however clearly lost 3-0 in the semifinals against FC Dallas and had to be eliminated.

The way to the senior national team

After he was first appointed back in 2004 in the U-20 national team of his home country, he was only about three years later in 2007 his debut for the junior selection of the USA as he prepares for an international youth tournament in South Korea once again was brought into the squad. There he finally made his team debut against the U-20 selection of Egypt when he played from the start and was replaced by Hunter Freeman from the 65th minute on and also acted as one of the top performers in this game. About a month earlier, Franklin was brought into the US U-23 squad, where he made his debut at the Kirin Challenge Cup against Japan's U-22 team. Both games, in the U-20 and U-23 selection, were his only ones in a junior national team in his career. Even before his actual debut in the senior national team of the United States , Franklin was brought up a few times in their squad, where he mostly only trained, but had no real prospects of being used. He received his first call-up in November 2008 for the qualifying game for the 2010 World Cup against Guatemala scheduled for that month . Although he trained with the USA national team, he was not in their squad on match day and therefore had to take a seat in the stands. Furthermore, Franklin was brought into the national team of the United States for the winter training camp in January 2009. Even after that, however, there was never enough for a mission, which was partly due to the fact that he had to leave the camp early due to an injury.

It wasn't until two years later that he would have the chance to play in the US national team again. So in coach Bob Bradley brought back for the winter training camp 2011 in the national team, for which he made his debut on January 22, 2011 in the friendly against Chile (1: 1), when he was used over the entire game. A total of six other US-Americans made their team debut that day in addition to Sean Franklin with Chris Wondolowski , Zach Loyd , Jeff Larentowicz , Sean Johnson , Anthony Wallace and Eric Alexander .

Move to DC United

At the end of the 2013 season, Franklin's contract was not renewed. So he got into the 2013 MLS Re-Entry Draft, where he was selected by DC United . A little later he signed a contract there.

successes

at highland high school
  • Triple letterman
  • "Golden League's Most Valuable Player": 2003
  • "All-Area-First-Team": 2003
  • Golden League champion: 2003
at Cal State Northridge
with Los Angeles Galaxy
Individual successes

Private / family / trivia

  • Sean Michael Franklin was born in the Panorama City neighborhood of Los Angeles to Lynette and John Franklin, who himself played at Cal State Northridge Football from 1975 to 1977 . Sean Franklin also has three sisters and one brother.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MLS Superdraft - Unpredictable as always ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2012 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 March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.soccermogul.com
  2. ↑ Galaxy defender Sean Franklin out 4 to 6 months , accessed on March 12, 2011
  3. ^ Franklin Named to Under-20 Roster for Suwon International Youth Tournament , accessed March 12, 2011
  4. ↑ US Under-20 Men Finish in Second Place at Suwon Tournament with 1-0 Victory Over Egypt ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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 March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  5. ↑ US U-23s Draw, 0-0, with Japan U-22 MNT in Kirin Challenge Cup ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  6. ↑ Bradley Names 19 Players for Domestic Training Camp in Colorado ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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 March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  7. ↑ Bradley Names 20-Player Roster for FIFA World Cup Qualifier Against Guatemala on Nov. 19 ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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 March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  8. ^ Bradley Calls 25 Players to Begin Training Camp on Jan. 4 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2012 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 March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  9. ^ Bradley Calls 24 Players to Begin Training Camp on Jan. 4 at The Home Depot Center in Carson, Calif. ( Memento of the original from August 28, 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), accessed March 12, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
  10. ↑ a b U.S. Men's National Team Opens 2011 With 1-1 Draw Against Chile Behind First Career Goal from Teal Bunbury ( Memento of the original from September 3, 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), accessed January 22, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ussoccer.com
personal data
SURNAME Franklin, Sean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Franklin, Sean Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Panorama City , Los Angeles, California