Atiba Hutchinson
Hutchinson in Copenhagen, 2014
Atiba Hutchinson ( born February 8, 1983 in North York, Ontario ) is a Canadian soccer player who is in Turkey for Beşiktaş Istanbul under contract.
Club career
Hutchinson, whose parents are from Trinidad and Tobago, his career began in 2002 at York Region Shooters in the Canadian Professional Soccer League. After four inserts in the same year at the Toronto Lynx in the USL A-League Hutchinson moved to Sweden in the early 2003 Allsvenskan to Östers IF. He was in the course of the season to the player base and scored six goals this season. At the end of the season, the club rose from the table next to last, Hutchinson remained by his move to Helsingborgs IF, however, in the highest Swedish league. After two more seasons in the middle of the Allsvenskan, he moved in early 2006 to the Danish giants FC Copenhagen.
In Copenhagen, he quickly established himself in central midfield and won in the following seasons next three league titles in each case once the National Cup and the Royal League. 2006/ 07, he qualified with the team for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League and came in all six games for use, as it was eliminated despite home game victories over Manchester United and Glasgow Celtic as a Table. For the 2010/11 season he moved free transfer to Dutch club PSV Eindhoven, whose leaders had become aware during the two games against Copenhagen in the UEFA Europa League 2009/10 on him.
After Hutchinson's contract had expired at the end of the 2012/13 season, he moved free transfer to Turkey for Beşiktaş Istanbul.
National
Hutchinson came from 2001 onwards regularly for the Canadian U- 20 and U -23 used. With the U -20 he took in 2001 and 2003 at the Junior World Cup finals. While 2001 was eliminated after the first round dot and scoreless, the team came in 2003 before the quarter-finals, where they lost to the Spanish offspring with 1:2. Hutchinson played it together with Andres Arango as a central defender and was not only one of the outstanding players of his team, which is highlighted in the official tournament report as -tackling defender with a good overview, but was also chosen as the only Canadians in the team of the tournament. With the U -23 he played at the Jeux de la Francophonie in 2001 and the CONCACAF Olympic qualifying in 2004.
On January 18, 2003 Hutchinson was at a 0-4 defeat in a friendly match against the United States made his debut in the Canadian national team. A few months later he was one of the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2003 and the squad came when Vorrundenaus to two short sessions. In the following Continental Championships Hutchinson was part of the core team. After once again failed in the first round in 2005, reached the national team to the semifinals in 2007 and failed there with 1:2 to the United States. In 2009 he formed the midfield with Julián de Guzmán and Patrice Bernier the backbone of the Canadian team and came to wins over El Salvador and Jamaica to the quarterfinals, where they lost the Honduran selection 0:1.
In January 2007, Hutchinson was chosen by the fans of the Canadian National Team in an online vote for their player of the year 2006, however, the main award went to Julian de Guzman. 2010 followed the first-time award for Canada's Player of the Year.
Achievements
At club level:
- Danish champion: 2005/ 06, 2006/ 07, 2008/ 09
- Danish Cup winner: 2008/ 09
- KNVB Cup: 2012 ( with PSV)
- Royal League winner: 2005/ 06
Individual:
- FIFA All -Star team: Junior World Championships 2003
- Canada's Player of the Year: 2010, 2012
- Canada's Player of the Year ( Fanwahl ): 2006