Adrian Serioux

Serioux before the championship finals 2006

Adrian Serioux ( born May 12, 1979 in Toronto ( Scarborough ), Ontario ) is a Canadian soccer player. The defender plays since 2009 for Toronto FC in Major League Soccer.

Club career

Serioux moved to a college season for the University of New Haven moved Serioux in the USL A-League for the Toronto Lynx. In his five seasons for the Toronto Lynx Serioux came to a total of 116 missions, 2000, he was defeated by the team in the Conference Final the Rochester Raging Rhinos.

2004 signed Serioux a two -year contract with the English second division Millwall FC after a week earlier been his compatriot Josh Simpson had also signed a contract with Millwall. In September 2005 he returned to Canada to take care of his ill mother.

On 1 March 2006, Serioux joined the Major League Soccer team New York MetroStars, but was already given in exchange for Danny O'Rourke at Houston Dynamo few weeks later. With Dynamo Serioux 2006 won by a 4-3 win on penalties over New England Revolution the championship. In MLS Expansion Draft 2006, he was selected by the new MLS side Toronto FC, ​​but already given in exchange for Ronnie O'Brien to FC Dallas a few hours later. 2007 missed Serioux injury much of the season, in May 2008 he was sentenced to pay a fine of $ 1,000 for a foul on David Beckham, which was punished with red, after he had a year earlier announced in an interview that " after him to be " ( " going after him " ).

After two years in Dallas he was bound from Toronto for a compensation payment and Toronto Erstrundenpick the MLS SuperDraft 2010. Serioux submitted no new contract offer for the 2010 season and eventually returned to the third- round pick in the MLS SuperDraft 2011 Houston Dynamo back.

National

Serioux debuted in August 2004 in a World Cup qualifier against Guatemala in the Canadian national team. In 2005 he was part of the Canadian contingent at the CONCACAF Gold Cup and was at Vorrundenaus one of the better players of his team. His last international game he played on 15 October 2008 in a World Cup qualifier against Mexico.