Bobby Wood (soccer)

Bobby Shou Wood (born 15 November 1992 Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American football player. In the season 2013/14, the striker is in the squad of the TSV 1860 Munich.

Career

Youth

Wood grew up the son of a Japanese woman and an African American in Irvine (California ), where he played until 2007 at the Irvine Strikers Soccer. July 1, 2007 Wood went to Europe and came into the youth academy of the German second division club TSV 1860 Munich, next he attended the Munich International School in Starnberg. After initial difficulties that were due mainly to the language barrier, the Hawaiians established in the youth teams of Sechzger. In the season 2009/10 he was behind Kevin Volland and Markus Ziereis third striker in the U19 TSV 1860, he played 19 times in the A- junior Bundesliga and thereby scored a goal. In the final stage of the season he was already sitting on the bench a few times the U23 in the Regionalliga Süd. On May 12, he was there, finally made ​​his debut in the adult area when he came off the bench in the game at Eintracht Frankfurt II.

On May 18, he came to his first race in the junior national team of the United States. He played for the U20 half time against the U20 of Senegal. Two days later, he also came for a half against the U20 South Korea used. Even the International Cor Groenewegen Tournament in Uitgeest Wood belonged to the levy of the United States, he scored in the tournament two goals.

In the summer of 2010 his strike partner Volland and Ziereis were appointed nominally in the professional squad the lion, especially Ziereis played but continue with the U19. After Wood was used in the first five games of the U19 and two goals had been shot, he came on September 26 in the game in the second representation of the TSG Hoffenheim his season debut in the U23. A week later he was playing in pastures for the first time in the starting lineup, and scored his first goal for the U23 Sechzger. On October 9, he first played for second division club TSV 1860, he appeared as a substitute in a friendly in Krakow at halftime. Until the winter break he came six times in the U23 used and scored a goal. For the U19, he played three games, but he came twice to score.

Beginnings in professional football

On January 17, 2011 Woodlands began after the winter break back training with the U23. Two days later, he was promoted by professional coach Reiner Maurer in the second division squad. In the game of Sechzger in Osnabrück on 21 January 2011, he stood for the first time in the squad of the second division team. A week later, Wood was at the game against MSV Duisburg on January 29 made ​​his debut in the Bundesliga 2, when he came on in the closing stages. In the CONCACAF U- 20 Championship 2011 in Guatemala from March 28 to April 10, he is part of the U.S. squad. In the first game against the national team of Suriname on 29 March, he scored his first international goal. In the second game against Panama to Wood injured his knee and was characterized by the remainder of the season.

At the start of the new season, he belonged mostly to the 18-man squad but did not play. In September and October, he finally ran seven times for the U23 in the Regionalliga Süd, where he scored two goals. In October, he also came for the professionals three times in the league and once in the DFB - Pokal for use. In November he took part in a course with the U.S. U -23. There he came in the game against the U21 Azerbaijan used. Wood returned with a new knee injury from the course and was then operated on in Munich.

In March 2012 he came to three appearances for the U23 Sechzger. On March 23, he was the first time back in the squad of professionals, but then he had to have surgery on his knee again, so once again he fails in the longer term. His contract with 1860 Munich expired on 30 June 2012 and was initially not renewed due to its susceptibility to injury. At the urging of Alexander Schmidt, the new coach of the second team, who had already been trained in the Wood youth, he was in early July with a new one-year contract. He should come here in the season 2012/13 for the second team, which competes as a U21 since the start of the new season, in the newly created League Bavaria used. However, it was Alexander Schmidt new head coach of the professional cadre, who pulled up to the pros again in the episode also Wood after discharge Reiner Maurer. On November 24, 2012, he made ​​his comeback in the Bundesliga 2 against 1 FC Union Berlin. On December 14, 2012 Wood eventually signed a professional contract until 2016. In the second round he was on the one hand be changed regularly in the Bundesliga 2, on the other hand he also ran several times for U21 to. On 31 May 2013, was nominated for the preliminary squad of the U.S. national team in the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2013. At the urging of Alexander Schmidt's U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann abandoned but on wood, since the Gold Cup collided with the start of the season of 1860.

On August 14, 2013 he made his debut in the U.S. national team, when he came off the bench in a 4-3 in Bosnia - Herzegovina in the final minutes.