Alejandro Bedoya
Bedoya in the U.S. Selection Jersey (June 2011)
Alejandro Bedoya ( born April 29, 1987 in Englewood, New Jersey) is an American football player. His professional career denied the midfielder, who made his debut in the national team of his native country in 2010, previously in Sweden, Scotland and since the summer of 2013 at FC Nantes in France.
Family and Childhood
Born in New Jersey midfielder who grew up in Miami. His father, Adriano Bedoya, played in South Korea and Colombia as professional football. His grandfather, Fabio, also. Both parents are from Colombia. 2005 Bedoya graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School in Fort Lauderdale.
Career
In its conclusion, he won the high school team the 5A Florida State Championship and was named player of the year. In his college years he played for the national team of Boston College and Fairleigh Dickinson University. For both teams, he was nominated for the Hermann Trophy.
Since many college football players strove a professional career on the MLS SuperDraft, Bedoya decided to move abroad. The end of 2008, he signed a contract with the Swedish first division side Örebro SK and changed on 7 January 2009 on the club. His first game in Allsvenskan he made on 6 April 2009 as a substitute for Nordin Gerzić. In the following years he became more and more under coach Sixten Boström and became a regular player in the left midfield. With the team to Samuel Wowoah, Magnus Kihlberg, Patrik Anttonen and Michael Almebäck he surprised in the 2010 in third place.
In August 2011, Bedoya joined the Glasgow Rangers in the Scottish Premier League. In his new club he was only sporadically used. In his twelve season stakes he stood five times in the starting lineup.
After the relegation of the Scottish clubs in the Viertklassigkeit Bedoya returned in August 2012 back to Sweden and joined the reigning double champion Helsingborgs IF. In the summer of 2013, he joined the French Erstligaaufsteiger FC Nantes.
National
Alejandro Bedoya took the U23 national team of the United States participated in the preparatory program for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, but did not go to China.
On 22 December 2009 he was nominated for the first time for a training camp of the national team of the United States. 23 January 2010 Bedoya made his international debut against Honduras. He came on in the 61st minute and then received good reviews for his game.
Bedoya was in the provisional squad for the World Cup 2010 but was not copied into the final team.