Auston Trusty

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Auston Trusty
Personnel
birthday August 12, 1998
place of birth Media , United States
size 191 centimeters
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
2011-2016 Philadelphia Union
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016 Philadelphia Union II 13 (0)
2016-2017 → Philadelphia Union II (loan) 31 (0)
2016-2019 Philadelphia Union 56 (2)
2019– Colorado Rapids 0 (0)
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National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2015 United States (U17) 2 (0)
2016-2017 United States (U20) 7 (1)
2016 United States (U19) 6 (0)
2019– United States (U23) 2 (0)
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1 Only league games are given.
Was standing:

2 Status: na

Auston Trusty (born August 12, 1998 in Media , Pennsylvania ) is an American football player in the position of a defender who is specially used in the position of the central defender . He has been under contract with Colorado Rapids since 2019, playing in Major League Soccer , the highest North American soccer league.

Club career

Auston Trusty was born on August 12, 1998 in the small town of Media, a few miles west of the city of Philadelphia , in the US state of Pennsylvania, and began playing football at a young age. After having been employed in youth training clubs as a child, he also played for various school teams from early school years before he was accepted into the academy of the major league soccer franchise Philadelphia Union in 2011. Over the years he went through various youth play classes and from 2013 also attended the YSC Academy in Wayne , Pennsylvania, which opened this year and is available to the Academy of the MLS franchise as a high school or training facility.

After years in the youth field and being called up to various US national youth teams , Trusty received an amateur contract with Bethlehem Steel FC , which had been founded just a year earlier and is a partner and farm team of the Philadelphia Union in the third-class professional United Soccer League (USL) , before the start of the 2016 game year. appears. Through the amateur contract, he was still eligible to play for a later possible career in college football, at which point he had already decided for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a further station after his high school career.

Subsequently, he made his debut in the North American third division on April 10, 2016 in a 4-0 away defeat against the New York Red Bulls II , when he played through the full 90 minutes as a central defender. Thereupon he advanced to a regular in the defensive line of Bethlehem Steel and completed a total of 12 championship games by the end of July, including his debut game, of which he was on the pitch for the full length of the game. In between, he was not part of the official squad in six league games. Through his achievements in the farm team, he also drew the attention of those responsible at the Philadelphia Union and received a homegrown player contract from the MLS franchise on August 10, 2016 , giving him professional status and for this reason no longer eligible for a possible college Career was eligible to play. After Derrick Jones , Trusty became the second player to sign such a contract with The U , as the franchise was nicknamed, in 2016 .

Subsequently, Trusty was, according to the rules, eligible to play for both teams and could be used alternately in the third-class USL and in the first-class MLS. Until the end of the 2016 game year , which was the first championship for Bethlehem Steel FC after it was founded in the previous year, he was then used as a regular from August to September in all remaining championship games over the full game. In the final standings he finished eleventh with the team in the Eastern Conference . In total, he was used in 19 championship games in the USL and was unused on the bench in three MLS league games; for the first time on September 3, 2016 in a 3-0 away defeat against Chicago Fire . He was also in the only game in Philadelphia in the season-closing play-offs, in the knockout round without use on the bench.

National team career

Auston Trusty spent a large part of his youth career in the various US national football selections. At the beginning of May 2015, among other things, he was appointed to the US U-17 national team for the first time by the then U-17 national coach Richie Williams for a training camp in New Jersey . Williams subsequently nominated him for the squad that took part in the Suwon Continental Cup in South Korea in preparation for the 2015 U-17 World Cup , which will take place from October to November . In the further course of the year he took part with the U-17 squad, among other things, in tournaments in the Czech Republic and France , most of which served to prepare for the World Cup finals, and was at the final training camp for the US U-17 team. National team in Mexico City before he went to the World Cup in Chile as part of the 21-man squad of US players . At the finals there, Williams put him in two of the three group games; he missed the second group game due to a suspension after receiving the red card in the first game. With the Americans, he then retired from the tournament as the last in Group A.

In January 2016, Trusty was part of the US U-19 juniors and, under U-19 national coach Brad Friedel , took part in the Copa de Athletico in the Canary Islands in January . Just two months later, he took part with the United States' U-20 national team in the major Texas youth tournament, the Dallas Cup , and then completed numerous appearances in the U-20 national team under coach Tab Ramos . For example, shortly after completing his training at the academy in June 2016, in all three games at the NTC Invitational Tournament in July 2016 in California . After participating in the COTIF Tournament 2016 between July and August, things remained largely quiet for the young footballer from Pennsylvania in the months that followed. It was only in December 2016 that Tab Ramos brought him back to the US U-20 national team for a training camp with two friendly matches in Costa Rica .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Trusty Taking Advantage of Steel FC Faith , accessed December 21, 2016
  2. ↑ DELCO TEEN AUSTON TRUSTY SPURNS UNC, OVERSEAS OFFERS TO SIGN WITH UNION , accessed December 21, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Philadelphia Union Sign Auston Trusty As Homegrown Player , accessed December 21, 2016
  4. ^ Auston Trusty no longer on North Carolina roster , accessed December 21, 2016
  5. ↑ Williams names 20-player roster for NJ camp , accessed December 21, 2016
  6. ^ U17 MNT roster for South Korea trip , accessed on December 21, 2016
  7. ↑ Williams named U17 roster for Czech tourney , accessed on December 21, 2016
  8. ↑ U17 MNT Roster for France Tournament , accessed on December 21, 2016
  9. ↑ Williams Names Roster for final U17 camp , accessed December 21, 2016
  10. ^ Williams named US U17 roster for World Cup , accessed on December 21, 2016
  11. ↑ U19 MNT roster named for Copa de Athletico (English), accessed on December 21, 2016
  12. ↑ US U20 MNT roster for Dallas Cup , accessed December 21, 2016
  13. ↑ Ramos named U20 roster for NTC Invitational , accessed on December 21, 2016
  14. ↑ Ramos names 20-player roster for Costa Rica , accessed on December 21, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Trusty, Auston
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Media , Pennsylvania , United States