Stefan Frei

This article is about the soccer player Stefan Frei. For an electrical engineer see Stephan Frei , for other people see Stefan Frey .

Stefan Frei
Personnel
birthday	April 20, 1986
place of birth	Altstätten ,  Switzerland
Size	191 cm
position	goal
Juniors
Years	station
0000–2005	De La Salle High School
2006-2008	UC Berkeley
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006	San Francisco Seals	6 (0)
2007-2008	San Jose Frogs	18 (0)
2009-2013	Toronto FC	82 (0)
2014–	Seattle Sounders FC	66 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Switzerland U-15	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. As of March 5, 2016 2 As of June 13, 2009

Stefan Frei (born April 20, 1986 in Altstätten ) is a Swiss football goalkeeper . Since 2014 he has been playing for Seattle Sounders FC in the top division of North American football, Major League Soccer (MLS).

Career

Youth and amateur football

Frei emigrated to the United States of America in early 2001 , where he gained his first experience in North American football at De La Salle High School in Concord , California . In his senior year, he was named Athlete of the Year 2005 by high school . From 2006 to 2008 he played for the University of California's college team , the California Golden Bears . In total, he completed 47 league appearances for the Bears in three years. In 2007 he was elected to the First Team All-American of the NCAA and was named the best college goalkeeper of the season. During the break of the season during his student days Frei completed six games for the San Francisco Seals (2006) and 18 games for the San José Frogs (2007 and 2008) in the USL Premier Development League .

Shortly before his emigration, Frei played alongside Tranquillo Barnetta and Reto Ziegler in the Swiss U-15 team when he stood between the posts against Scotland in October 2000 .

Professional career

After joining the Frogs and graduating from university, he took another step towards professional football with the MLS SuperDraft in 2009 . When Draft Frei was right in the first round as the 13th pick in the team of Toronto FC summoned after he earlier in the MLS Player Combine in 2009 as an MVP award. He ousted the Canadian international Greg Sutton from the goalkeeping position in his first professional season and made his professional debut on the opening game day of the 2009 season on March 21, in the 3-2 home win against the Kansas City Wizards . In the same season he won the Canadian Championship 2009 with the team . He also played in the CONCACAF Champions League 2009/10 .

successes

• NCAA First Team All-American: 2007
• Canadian Championship : 2009
• MLS Cup winner: 2016

Private / family

He is a second cousin of the former captain of the Swiss national soccer team , Alexander Frei .

Web links

• Stefan Frei in the database of MLSSoccer.com (English)
• Player profile on the Seattle Sounders homepage
• Messages + profile about Stefan Frei in the 2008 season overview of the Cal Golden Bears (pdf-File; 1.7 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Yves target Thaler: A Widnau playing against Beckham. Tagblatt Online, February 26, 2009, accessed on September 23, 2013 (from the perspective of 2009, “eight years ago” means 2001). 
2. ↑ ^{a b} goal.com: Free and the Dream of America (March 26, 2009)
3. ↑ Swiss striker Frei has a nose for goal (English), accessed on May 26, 2010