Adam Braz

Braz in the jersey of Montreal ( 2008)

Adam Braz ( born June 7, 1981 in Montreal) is a former Canadian football player.

Club career

Braz played at youth level for AS Jean -Talon Rosemont in the Quebec Elite Soccer League and has been nominated several times at the Canadian championships for the national team of Quebec. In the age groups U-15, U -17 and U-18 he won with Quebec a total of two gold and one silver medal in the national championships.

After he played from 1999 to 2001 for the Fairfield Stags, the college team from Fairfield University, in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference of NCAA Division I, the defender 2002 signed his first professional contract with the Montreal Impact in the USL A-League. After his first professional season, he completed at the end of a trial in the Swedish second division Västerås SK and was committed to the 2003 season.

In 2004 Braz returned back to Canada and continued his career at Montreal on. In 2004 he won with Impact by a 2-0 final win over the Seattle Sounders championship. After two more seasons as a regular player, where you as a master of Regular Season each failed in the play-off semi-final, he was taken to the 2007 season by the newly formed Canadian MLS team Toronto FC under contract. After streaky services for Toronto, he was gewaived end of the season and signed a short time later at Montreal Impact.

In 2008 he won the club the Canadian Championship, the Canadian qualifying tournament for the CONCACAF Champions League and was with the team as the first Canadian team ever in the main round of CONCACAF competition. There they placed themselves in the group stage point just behind the Mexican representatives and eventual champions Atlante on rank 2 and went with it to the quarter finals, where you Santos Laguna after after a 2-0 home game win and a 2-1 halftime lead in the second leg still two goals in injury time defeated with 2:5 and thus eliminated from the tournament. Followed in 2009, the second championship win in the USL for Braz after prevailed in the Canadian final duel against the Vancouver Whitecaps with two wins.

Braz announced on 14 March 2011 his retirement from professional football and took over the post of team manager at Montreal Impact.

National

Braz played between 1998 and 2002 several times for the Canadian U -20 team. In 1998 he failed the team in the CONCACAF qualifiers for the World Youth Championship in 1999, 2001 he was again in the squad at the U -20 qualifying round, came during the successful qualifying but not used and missed taking part in the Junior World Championships 2001 due to a knee injury. In 2004 he formed with Victor Oppong and Chris Pozniak the Canadian defense formation in the Olympic qualifying tournament (U -23), the team retired but devoid of points in the group stage.

To his international debut in the Canadian senior national team central defender came on 18 January 2004 in a friendly match against Barbados. At his only appearances for Canada Braz came in 2005 as part of the CONCACAF Gold Cup when he. Together with Josh Simpson -backs Couple, Canada retired after losing to Costa Rica and the U.S. in the preliminary round of Two years later he was one of the semi-finals in the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup once again to the Canadian squad, remained in the team to the Innenverteidigerduo Richard Hastings Andre Hainault and but without the use of and also came since then no further appearances for the national team.

Achievements

At club level:

  • Master USL First Division: 2004, 2009
  • Canadian Championship: 2008
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