Aaron Clapham

Daniel Aaron Clapham ( born January 15, 1987 in Christchurch ) is a New Zealand soccer player.

Club career

Clapham comes from a football-mad family. His parents are in the regional football from Christchurch active, his sister Sara played several times for the women's national team. Clapham learned the football at Burwood AFC, a small club in Christchurch Churcher Burwood district in which his parents were employed and trained her son. 14 -year-old, he joined the traditional Western AFC, where he made ​​his debut at age 15 in the Mainland Premier League, the highest regional league for teams from the northern part of New Zealand's South Island. In 2004 he received the award for best young player in the Mainland Premier League, a year later he was awarded as the best striker and best player in the league.

He then took a scholarship from the Saint Francis University in Pennsylvania, but soon realized that their football team for his claims was "too small" and moved to the University of Louisville in 2007. There he was in his two seasons at the top performers of Louisville Cardinals and became the MLS Combine in 2009, an event for viewing by candidates for the forthcoming Draft Major League Soccer invited. Clapham was not selected during the subsequent MLS Draft and, after completing his studies with a Bachelor of Business Administration to the Australian club Dandenong Thunder in the Victorian Premier League.

With the Dandenong technically studded midfielder reached the first table of the regular season, the championship final in 2009, where they lost with 4:5 on penalties Altona Magic. In the long season break (September to February), Clapham, whose favorite position is as an attacking midfielder, who can also be used in the right and the defensive midfield but, returned to New Zealand and played for Canterbury United in the New Zealand Football Championship, the top division of the country. Clapham thereby became the outstanding player of the season, has been appointed in all four months in the team of the month and awarded at the end of the season as the best player in the league. He led this Canterbury, the Table was in the previous two seasons, respectively, won to the championship final, where Waitakere United 3-1. Clapham should it return to Dandenong early February, but decided to remain in New Zealand until the end of the season, even to his chances of a call to the New Zealand World Cup squad not to belittle.

In February 2011, he was briefly in the squad of the New Zealand professional team Wellington Phoenix, was out of the match against Sydney FC but used. In the season 2011/12 Clapham was with nine hits season behind his teammate George Slefendorfas second best scorer of the New Zealand Cup, a year later, he scored twelve goals this season, one. Less than scorer Roy Krishna

National

Clapham, who belonged to the New Zealand performance squad in the age groups U -14 and U -16, was appointed to the New Zealand U-20 squad for the World Youth Championship in Canada in 2007 and came at Vorrundenaus in two of the three group games used.

Due to its performance in the New Zealand Cup with Canterbury United invited national coach Ricki Herbert Clapham in April 2010 as the only players without international match to a 12 - day training camp of the New Zealand national one. After he had commanded an outstanding performance in a test match against a New Zealand league choice, Herbert nominated him a day later in the 23- man squad for the FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa.

Clapham remained during the World Cup without the use and made ​​his debut in October 2010 in a friendly against Honduras.

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