Chris Pozniak

Christopher " Chris " Pozniak ( born January 10, 1981 in Krakow, Poland Krzysztof Pozniak ) is a Canadian soccer player.

Career

Born in Poland Pozniak emigrated in 1990 to Canada, where he played in his youth at the Scarborough High School before he was drafted in 1998 by the Toronto Lynx in the 3rd round in the USL College Draft. In 1999, he began his professional career at the club in the USL A-League. In 2001 he joined the Swedish first division side Örebro SK, for he came to 45 operations by the end of 2003. Between 2004 and 2006 he played at the Norwegian club FK Haugesund in the second and third division of the country.

2007 Pozniak returned back to North America and signed a contract with the newly formed MLS team Toronto FC. After 22 operations in his first MLS season, he was selected in the MLS Expansion Draft 2007 by the San Jose Earthquakes re-established and transferred to CD Chivas USA shortly before the start of the season in exchange for John Cunliffe. After only four league operations, he was released from Chivas again and Pozniak joined briefly the Vancouver Whitecaps, before he made ​​the jump to Europe again. In the Scottish second division side FC Dundee Pozniak played on the opening game against Ross County as a test player and received a short time later a one-year contract.

In the summer of 2009, he returned to the Whitecaps.

National

Pozniak played between 1998 and 2004 in 35 appearances for the Canadian selection teams U- 20 and U- 23rd With the U -20 team, he participated in the Junior World Championships in 2001 in Argentina and came at Vorrundenaus of Canadians in all three games available for use. With the U -23 he played at the Pan American Games in 1999, the Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001 and the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying in 2004.

Pozniak early as 2002 was the first time for the national team and participated without previous international duty at the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2002. In the first group match against Haiti, he gave as a substitute shortly before the end of his debut for the Canadian national team, he also was a half- time in the 3rd place match against South Korea for use. He belonged to the following CONCACAF Championships in 2003, 2005 and 2007 respectively in the squad Canada and reached it again in 2007 to the semifinals.