Troy Smith (soccer player)

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Troy Smith
Personnel
birthday April 11, 1987
size 178 cm
position Midfielder and winger
Juniors
Years station
Bounty Hall Primary and Infant School
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2005-2011 Village United FC
2012-2015 Montego Bay United
2017-2018 Harmony FC
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
Jamaica U-20
Jamaica U-23
2010–2012 Jamaica 12 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Troy Smith (born April 11, 1987 ) is a Jamaican former football player in the position of midfielder and winger who was used on the defensive.

At the age of around 28, the Jamaican international had to end his career due to a serious knee injury.

Club career

Career start and time at Village United

Troy Smith was born on April 11, 1987 and already played football during his school days, which he sometimes spent at the 1973 founded Bounty Hall Primary and Infant School , or BHPIS for short , located inland behind Falmouth and Martha Brae . In 2005, the 18-year-old was accepted into the men's team at Village United FC , a football club from Falmouth. In the 2005/06 season Smith was able to record his first goal in the highest Jamaican football league and finished the season with the team in the final ranking in sixth place. While the team was eliminated in the 2005/06 Jamaican Football Cup in the round of 16, the team won the regional Trelawny Cup against the football selection from Clark's Town , but the defeated finalist qualified for the Jamaican Cup, which took place a year later, as Village United as a first division team automatically qualified for the trophy is eligible to participate.

Also in the following season , the team did not get beyond a place in the middle of the table and the quarter-finals in the Jamaican Football Cup. In the 2006/07 season Smith was again in the final of the Trelawny Cup with Village United . In 2007/08 Smith, who had a total of eight goals - five of them from the penalty spot - even had to go into relegation with his team, although the team was still able to avert relegation in this. On the positive side, Village United made it into the semi-finals of the Jamaican Cup this season, in which the team lost 4-2 against eventual cup winners Waterhouse FC .

In the final table of the regular season 2008/09 Smith ranked with his team on a relegation place, but could still create relegation group with the team in the subsequent relegation group phase. The midfielder and his team in the 2008/09 Jamaican Football Cup did not get beyond the quarter-finals - Village United were clearly defeated by Waterhouse 6-0. 2009/10 Smith stepped again dangerous for the team from Trelawny in appearance. He scored eleven of his team's 29 goals in the regular season, with Smith continuing to take his team's penalties - eight of his eleven goals were from the penalty spot. Due to the sixth place, the team qualified for the season-deciding championship group, in which the team only finished sixth. Village United also failed in the quarter-finals of the Jamaican Football Cup in 2009/10.

At the beginning of the 2010/11 season , Village United changed their home ground and no longer played their games in Falmouth, but from now on in Montego Bay . The entire season was roughly the same as the previous one. Smith, who acted as team captain for a longer period of time , ranked with Village United at the end of the regular season in sixth place in the table, thereby qualifying for the championship group phase and was sixth in this again. However, early on - in round 1 - the team was eliminated from the Jamaican Football Cup. In the summer of 2010, Smith, who had previously played for Jamaica's junior team several times, received his first call-up to the senior national team in his home country and from then on appeared regularly for it.

Moved to Montego Bay United

From Village United, now playing in Montego Bay, Smith moved to Montego Bay United within the city during the 2011/12 season . The team appeared as Seba United up to this point and had played in the Jamaican second division last season. Only after the club was taken over by Orville Powell , the newcomer was renamed Montego Bay United in the summer of 2011 . In the final ranking, the club was in seventh place and had to go into relegation. Relegation could be secured there; Smith's former club, however, had to take the path to the second division. The Jamaican Cup was not played this season.

The team had a similar experience in the following season 2012/13 . After a seventh place at the end of the regular season, Smith had to relegate Montego Bay United and ended up in seventh place. Much more successful was the following season , in which it brought the team to third place in the table and in the season-deciding championship round Harbor View FC in the semi-finals and then in the final defeated Waterhouse FC 5-2. Furthermore, he made it with the team in the final of the Jamaican Football Cup and lost with his team just 3: 4 to Reno FC . Due to the championship title, Montego Bay United qualified together with the second-placed Waterhouse FC for the 2015 CFU Club Championship . At this Caribbean Club Championship, Smith and his team were the first in Group 3 to qualify for the final round before the team was defeated in the semifinals by the W Connection from Trinidad and Tobago , but in the game for third place to Don Bosco FC from Haiti with 1 : 0 cleared.

However, the sources do not clearly indicate that Smith was on the team during this period. While, according to transfermarkt.de, he was a Montego Bay United player from 2012 to 2015, other statistics sites such as nationalfootballteams.com assume that Smith was not part of the Jamaican first division club in the meantime. This is also suggested by an article from the Jamaica Online Star from the beginning of 2015. It states that Smith will be associated with Montego Bay United. An article Jamaica Observer from mid-February 2015 also suggests that Smith did not rejoin the association until 2015. What is certain, however, is that he appeared for the club from Montego Bay in the 2014/15 season , finished second in the final standings (after a 2-0 defeat in the final against Arnett Gardens ) and then because of his career as a professional footballer ended with a serious knee injury around the age of 28.

Then the Bounty Hall resident Smith tried for some time as a player of the lower class Harmony FC , where he acted as an offensive player and top scorer of the team. Still extremely dangerous in 2017, he only appears briefly in the match reports for 2018 before he was unemployed again. In a newspaper article in Jamaica Star in June 2019, Smith reported that he was currently unemployed and had been training the students at his alma mater for years .

National team career

Before Smith played in the senior team of his home country, he already appeared for the Jamaican U-20 and U-23 selection . For a friendly against Trinidad and Tobago , national coach Theodore Whitmore brought him to Jamaica's senior team for the first time in August 2010. In the 3-1 win of the Reggae Boyz over Trinidad and Tobago, Smith came from the start of the game and played for the full 90 minutes. After another friendly game against Costa Rica in September 2010 , Whitemore brought him into the Jamaican 22-man squad about two months later for a preparatory game for the 2010 Caribbean Championship , again against Costa Rica. Then he was also during the said tournament, which was played November 26 to December 5, 2010 in Martinique , regular player in the Jamaican national team. During the finals, Smith played in two of his team's three group games and, after his victory in Group I, he was also in action in the subsequent semi-final game against Grenada , which ended in a 2-1 win for Jamaica after extra time, when he was in Minute 72 came for Shaun Francis on the lawn and in the 97th minute scored the decisive goal for his home country. In the subsequent final against Guadeloupe , which Jamaica could only win on penalties , Smith played through the full game and scored his team's last penalty before the subsequent Jean-Luc Lambourde from Guadeloupe missed his penalty.

After his success at the Caribbean Championship, Whitmore brought him into the national squad for a friendly against Venezuela in March 2011 and only used him again about six months later in a friendly international match against Ecuador . The 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup , for the Reggae Boyz had qualified in the Caribbean Championship because of their victory, missed Smith and was not even the extended squad. Then Whitmore brought the mostly defensive Smith in February 2012 for a training camp with two friendly matches against Cuba in the national team. In the first game not yet in action, the 1.78 m tall player completed the second encounter with the Cubans when he came onto the pitch in the 3-0 win at halftime for Ryan Johnson . A little later he traveled to New Zealand with the Jamaican national team and met the local national team there . When his team won 3-2, Smith was back on the field for the full length of the game. Smith's use in the friendly game against Costa Rica, which took place about a month later, was also his last appearance in the Jamaican national football team.

successes

with Montego Bay United
with the Jamaican national soccer team

Web links

  • Troy Smith in the soccerway.com database
  • Troy Smith in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
  • Troy Smith in the CaribbeanFootballDatabase (English)

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b Jamaica 2005/06 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  3. ↑ a b Jamaica 2006/07 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  4. ↑ a b Jamaica 2007/08 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  5. ↑ a b Jamaica 2008/09 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  6. ↑ a b c d Jamaica 2009/10 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  7. ↑ a b c Jamaica 2010/11 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  8. ↑ Price: Boys' Town ready for MoBay test , accessed January 20, 2020
  9. ↑ Western Trio Eye Bright 2012 ( Memento from December 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on January 20, 2020
  10. ↑ Out with Seba, in with MoBay Utd ( Memento from August 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 20, 2020
  11. ↑ a b c Jamaica 2011/12 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  12. ↑ a b Jamaica - List of Cup Winners on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  13. ↑ Jamaica 2013/14 on the official website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , accessed on January 20, 2020
  14. ↑ a b Powell: MoBay will retain title , accessed January 20, 2020
  15. ↑ Montego Bay Utd quench goal thirst at last , accessed on January 21, 2020
  16. ↑ Title on the line Coopers Pen, Harmony seek TFA Major League glory (English), accessed on January 21, 2020
  17. ↑ Reggae Youths secure mid-season final berth (English), accessed on January 21, 2020
  18. ↑ Boyz Will Win - Burrell , accessed January 21, 2020
  19. ^ Reggae Boyz Defeat T&T , accessed January 21, 2020
  20. ↑ a b Whitmore names seven U20 players in training squad (English), accessed on January 21, 2020
  21. ↑ Jamaica Beat Guadeloupe To Take Digicel Caribbean Cup , accessed January 21, 2020
  22. ↑ Jamaica-Venezuela Showdown Tonight ... Both Camps Predict Epic Matchup , accessed on January 21, 2020
  23. ↑ Boyz Depart For El Salvador On Sunday , accessed January 21, 2020
  24. ↑ Reggae Boyz Arrive In Ecuador , accessed on January 21, 2020
  25. ^ Reggae Boyz, Colombia Face Off , accessed on January 21, 2020
  26. ↑ Whitmore Highlights Need For Local Camps , accessed January 21, 2020
  27. ↑ Boyz Off To NZ , accessed January 21, 2020
  28. ↑ Weary Reggae Boyz Tackle New Zealand , accessed January 21, 2020
  29. ↑ Montesso Hails Maturing Boyz , accessed January 21, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Smith, Troy
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Jamaican soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1987