Preston Zimmerman

Preston Mark Zimmerman ( born November 21, 1988 in Auburn, Washington) is an American football player with U.S. and German citizenship, which plays in the Association League West for the TSV Schott Mainz.

Career

Zimmerman began his career in Washington Crossfire Premier, where he played until 2004. From 2004 to 2006 he was at the IGM Soccer Academy. For the season 2006/ 07 he moved to Seattle at the Hibernian Saints in the Pacific Coast Soccer League. In 2007 he left the team again in order to make the leap to Europe and to sign Hamburger SV in the reserve team of the German Bundesliga.

On 1 September 2008 the Kapfenberg SV Zimmerman committed shortly before the transfer deadline. He received a two- year contract. Exactly three weeks later, on 24 September 2008, Zimmerman made ​​his debut in the Austrian Bundesliga, when he was a substitute in the home game against SK Austria Kärnten in 46 minutes for Pero Pejić. The game ended with a 0-2 defeat after they had already lost on September 21, away against the Carinthian with 0:6. On 29 April 2009 he was dismissed from Kapfenberg, after having been previously removed from the squad due to lack of adjustment. Overall, he came to the team in 21 Bundesliga games for use and scoring three goals.

After the meantime wanted to end his career, to Zimmerman joined in early 2010 to the second team of 1 FSV Mainz 05. In summer 2011, he moved to third division side SV Darmstadt 98, in which he achieved his breakthrough and he developed over the third- League 2011/12 season away from the spare - team regular. After completion of the 2012/13 season, he left and returned Darmstadt to Mainz to play at TSV Schott Mainz.

Personal

His two siblings Brandon ( * 1990) and Derek (* 1994) also play active football in the Washington metropolitan area.