Zack Steffen

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Zack Steffen
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Recording from 2019
Personnel
Surname Zackary Thomas Steffen
birthday April 2, 1995
place of birth Coatesville ,  Pennsylvania , USA
size 191 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
West Chester United
2009-2013 FC DELCO
2013-2014 University of Maryland, College Park
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2016 SC Freiburg II 14 (0)
2016-2019 Columbus crew 84 (0)
2016 →  Pittsburgh Riverhounds  (farm team) 9 (0)
2019 Manchester City 0 (0)
2019-2020 →  Fortuna Düsseldorf  (loan) 17 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
USA offspring
2012-2013 USA U18 9 (0)
2014-2015 USA U20 17 (0)
2015 USA U23 4 (0)
2018– United States 16 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of July 23, 2020

2 As of September 7, 2019

Zackary "Zack" Thomas Steffen (born April 2, 1995 in Coatesville , Pennsylvania ) is an American football player in the position of goalkeeper who is under contract with Manchester City .

Club career

Youth and college football

Zack Steffen was born on April 2, 1995 to Stefanie and William Steffen in the city of Coatesville in the US state of Pennsylvania . He grew up next to his two sisters Katy and Lexy and his two brothers Benjamin and Colten. After his parents divorced, he lived with his mother and her new husband, Derek. He began his career as a football player at a young age and also worked for various school football teams during his school days. In addition, he played for the youth club West Chester United , with which he won the state championship in 2007, and from 2009 also for the Pennsylvania-based youth training club FC DELCO , which is in cooperation with the major league soccer franchise Philadelphia Union , to which he subsequently belonged to 2013 and where he also played parallel to his high school days. He graduated from Downingtown High School in his hometown Downingtown , about 50 kilometers from Philadelphia . He was already very successful as a junior player and was named the US Soccer Development Academy Eastern Conference Player of the Year in 2011/12 . In 2012 he was also awarded the Ches mont League MVP and was an All-Southeaster PA , All-State and All-American in the same year . He was voted # 1 goalkeeper by Top Drawer Soccer because of his achievements .

In 2013 he was admitted to the University of Maryland, College Park and served on the successful men's soccer team of the University Sports Department of Maryland Terrapins . Under long-time coach Sasho Cirovski , he quickly advanced to become the starting goalkeeper of the Terrapins. In his freshman year he was used in all games of his team over the full game and came to 76 balls held in the course of this game year. With the team he finished the regular time of the Atlantic Coast Conference in first place and won the subsequent ACC Men's Soccer Tournament in 2013 after victories over Virginia Tech , Clemson and North Carolina . With the associated entry into the NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship 2013 , Steffen was able to prove himself nationwide. After victories over Providence College , the University of California, Irvine and the University of California, Berkeley in Regional 2 , the team moved into the season-closing games for the College Cup . A 2-1 victory over the University of Virginia team in the semifinals was followed by a 2-1 defeat against the University of Notre Dame in the all-important final. Individual successes that were bestowed on him in this game year were the elections to the ACC All Freshman Team and to the NCAA Championship Most Valuable Defensive Player .

In his sophomore year, Steffen was again used in all competitive games of his team over the full playing time. After it was announced in autumn 2012 that the University of Maryland and Rutgers University would be part of the Big Ten Conference from the 2014 game year , Steffen also played in the following three games in the Big Ten Conference Men's after 18 games in the regular season Soccer Tournament 2014 used. Here, the Terrapins defeated the teams from Rutgers University, Michigan State University and Indiana University Bloomington and entered the 2014 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Championship . Thanks to his performance on penalties against Michigan State, Steffen was one of the main people responsible for the move. In this final round, the team was eliminated in their first game, the second round encounter against the University of Maryland, Baltimore County , after a 1-0 defeat from the current tournament. His individual successes this year include his election as Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week in calendar week 42.

Sc freiburg

On January 1, 2015, Steffen moved to the second team at SC Freiburg . After he had not played in the fourth-class Regionalliga Südwest until the end of the 2014/15 season , he was in the goal of the Freiburg second representative 14 times in the 2015/16 season , mostly with Konstantin Fuhry and Kai Eisele in goal alternated.

Return to the USA

In the summer of 2016 he was ranked as the third goalkeeper of the Bundesliga team behind regular Alexander Schwolow and his representative Patric Klandt , but only one month later he moved back to his home country, where he was signed to the major league soccer franchise Columbus Crew .

Immediately after his move back home, he was sent to his home state to the farm team , the Pittsburgh Riverhounds , in the United Soccer League (USL), which was still third class at the time . There he made his professional debut on August 13, 2016, when he played in the 2-1 away win over Bethlehem Steel FC and saved six shots on goal. Then he was used by coach Dave Brandt in the eight subsequent championship games as a goalkeeper over the full game. In the Eastern Conference of the United Soccer League 2016 , the Riverhounds only reached 13th and penultimate place in their conference. After returning to the crew at the end of the season, he became their goalkeeper in 2017 , after having sat on the bench of the MLS team three times in the 2016 season . He replaced veteran Steve Clark , who moved to Denmark again. Coach Gregg Berhalter then used him in all 34 championship games of 2017 for the full 90 minutes, finishing the regular season with the team in fifth place in the Eastern Conference and making it into the knockout round of the season-closing play -offs made it. In these, Steffen was also used in all five games of his team, with which he survived the penalty shoot-out against Atlanta United in the knockout round. After advancing in the Conference Semifinals against New York City FC , the team was only barely eliminated in the Conference Finals and thus just before entering the all-important MLS Cup against Toronto FC . In the only game of the crew in the Lamar Hunt US Open Cup 2017 , the 0-1 defeat against FC Cincinnati , Berhalter let the four-year-old Brad Stuver come first .

In the 2018 game year , Steffen started again as a regular goalkeeper. In total, he was used in 29 games in the regular season and in three playoff games. In the 2019 season , in which Steffen was part of the squad until the beginning of July, 13 MLS appearances followed.

Fortuna Dusseldorf

In July 2019, Manchester City acquired the transfer rights to Steffen, who signed a contract running until June 30, 2023 and became the most expensive MLS goalkeeper to date. However, he initially moved to Fortuna Düsseldorf on loan for the 2019/20 Bundesliga season . After the preparation and the injury to Michael Rensing , the US-American went into the season as the first keeper under head coach Friedhelm Funkel before Florian Kastenmeier . Steffen played all 17 first round matches, but was unable to play a game after the winter break due to patella tendon problems and an internal ligament injury in his knee. Fortuna Dusseldorf rose to 17th place in the 2nd Bundesliga , whereupon he left the club when his contract ended.

National team career

Steffen gained his first experience in a US youth national team with the US U14 juniors and was also used for the next higher age groups in the following years. In 2012 and 2013, he sometimes played for the United States U18 national team , for which he made nine international matches over the course of two years. As the main U18 goalkeeper in 2012, he took part in the Lisbon International Tournament in May, in the training camp in the Netherlands in September and in the training camp at the Home Depot Center in November, where he played in two friendly matches against colleagues from Canada was in the goal of the Americans from the start. In 2012 he was in the squad for the US U20 national team for the first time when he was brought into the squad that took part in the Marbella Cup in Spain to replace Kendall McIntosh . In 2013 he was called up to various camps in the U20 national team, in which he mostly only acted as the third goalkeeper and was never used. Among others in the CONCACAF U-20 Championship of 2013 and after successful qualification for the World Cup of 2013 .

In 2014 Steffen made his first appearances in the U20 national team, for which he made four international matches this year. In 2015 he acted as the team's regular goalkeeper and was in goal for the Americans in 13 international matches. These include five of the six games in his home country at the 2015 CONCACAF U20 Championship in Jamaica , where he helped his home country take part in the subsequent 2015 World Cup by finishing third . At this World Cup he was a member of the 21-man US squad, which reached second place in Group A in the preliminary round under coach Tab Ramos and in the subsequent final round after a 1-0 round of 16 victory over Colombia in the quarter-finals on penalties against the later world champion Serbia was eliminated.

Also in 2015, Steffen played four international games for the U23 national team in his home country , including two games on the occasion of the CONCACAF qualifying tournament for the 2016 Summer Olympics soccer tournament . In third place, the goal-scoring Americans barely managed to take part in the Olympic Games, to which only the first and second placed in the qualifying tournament were eligible. Just one year later, Steffens was called up for the first time in the senior national team of the United States ; for a friendly international match against Puerto Rico , Steffen was under coach Jürgen Klinsmann in the 22-man squad, but was not considered in the game. It then took a little more than a year and a half before Steffen was called up to the US national soccer team again. In the 0-0 draw in the friendly against Bosnia and Herzegovina , Steffen replaced Bill Hamid in the second half and thus made his debut in the senior national team of his home country. In the second international game of 2018, a 1-0 win over Paraguay on March 27, Steffen played for the first time over the full 90 minutes under Dave Sarachan in the goal of the US.

Web links

Commons : Zack Steffen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Soccer Box Score (Final) - The Automated ScoreBook - # 4 Maryland Terrapins vs # 3 Notre Dame (Dec 15, 2013 at Chester, Pa. ), Accessed June 1, 2018
  2. ↑ Big Ten Expansion: Maryland leaves ACC, joins conference in 2014 , accessed June 1, 2018
  3. ↑ Men's Soccer Upsets No. 4 Maryland, 1-0, Advances to Third Round of NCAA Tournament , accessed June 1, 2018
  4. ↑ Zack Steffen is moving up the ladder in Germany with Freiburg (English), accessed on June 1, 2018
  5. ↑ STEFFEN SIGNS WITH SC FREIBURG OF BUNDESLIGA (English), accessed on June 1, 2018
  6. ↑ Already eleven departures - Steffen third keeper , accessed on June 1, 2018
  7. ↑ Crew add US U-23 goalkeeper Zack Steffen (English), accessed June 1, 2018
  8. ↑ Zack Steffen on the official website of the United Soccer League (English), accessed on June 1, 2018
  9. ↑ Bethlehem Steel FC --- Pittsburgh Riverhounds (1: 2) (English), accessed June 1, 2018
  10. ↑ Zack Steffen named Columbus Crew SC's starting goalkeeper , accessed on June 1, 2018
  11. ↑ US No.1 Zack Steffen to join City in the summer , mancity.com, December 11, 2018, accessed December 11, 2018.
  12. ↑ Columbus Crew SC reaches historic 2019 secondary transfer window agreement for goalkeeper Zack Steffen , columbuscrewsc.com, December 11, 2018, accessed on December 11, 2018.
  13. ↑ Fortuna borrows goalkeeper Zack Steffen from Manchester City , f95.de, July 9, 2019, accessed on July 9, 2019.
  14. ↑ Next setback for Steffen - Bodzek also injured , kicker.de, April 27, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020.
  15. ↑ Zack Steffen Called Up to USMNT under-20 2012 Marbella Cup Roster , accessed on June 1, 2018
  16. ↑ US U-20 MNT HEAD COACH TAB RAMOS NAMES 18-PLAYER ROSTER FOR 2013 CONCACAF U-20 CHAMPIONSHIP IN PUEBLA, MEXICO , accessed on June 1, 2018
  17. ↑ U-20 MNT HEAD COACH TAB RAMOS NAMES 21-PLAYER ROSTER FOR 2013 FIFA U-20 WORLD CUP IN TURKEY , accessed on June 1, 2018
  18. ↑ TAB RAMOS FINALIZES 21-PLAYER ROSTER FOR 2015 FIFA U-20 WORLD CUP (English), accessed on June 1, 2018
  19. ↑ VALIANT U-20 MNT EFFORT COMES UP SHORT IN PK LOSS TO SERBIA (English), accessed on June 1, 2018
  20. ↑ KLINSMANN CALLS 22 PLAYERS FOR TRANSITION CAMP AND FRIENDLY VS. PUERTO RICO , accessed June 1, 2018
  21. ↑ Puerto Rico 1-3 USA: international soccer friendly - as it happened (English), accessed on June 1, 2018
  22. ↑ MNT OPENS 2018 WITH SPIRITED 0-0 DRAW VS. BOSNIA & HERZGOVINA , accessed on June 1, 2018
  23. ↑ BOBBY WOOD PENALTY KICK LIFTS MNT TO SPIRITED 1-0 WIN VS. PARAGUAY , accessed June 1, 2018
predecessor Office successor
Christian Pulisic Footballer of the Year in the USA
2018
personal data
SURNAME Steffen, Zack
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Steffen, Zackary Thomas (full name); Steffen, Zackary
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Coatesville , Pennsylvania , United States