Brent Sancho

Brent Sancho: A Portrait (2009)

Brent Sancho ( born March 13, 1977 in Port of Spain, Trinidad ) is a soccer player from Trinidad and Tobago. Sancho is primarily central defender, but can also be used as a right defender. He is currently with the Rochester Rhinos in the USL First Division, the second North American League, active.

Club career

After BA in Psychology from St. John's University in New York City, in the University team he had played Sancho led the first two stages of his career as a professional football player in the Finnish League, first for Myllykosken Pallo -47, in which he of was voted the fans the best player in 1998, and then in 1999 for FC Tervarit.

In 2000 he moved to the USL A-League, the highest professional league in the United States below Major League Soccer to Charleston Battery and 2001 in the same league with the Portland Timbers. After a change in the MLS had failed, he went in 2002 in the Trinidadian League to San Juan Jabloteh. With this club he won the championship in 2002. The season 2002 /03 he spent at Joe Public FC in Trinidad.

In the summer of 2003 he went back to Europe to FC Dundee in the Scottish Premier League. In the next two years, he completed 48 duty stakes for Dundee to eventually change in the summer of 2005 to FC Gillingham. There he played with his national team-mate Ian Cox.

In December 2007, Sancho signed a contract for a month at FC Millwall. This was not renewed and he was hired in March 2008 at the Scottish club Ross County. At the end of the season his contract was not renewed again and he played at Wrexham FC to the sample. He also did not get a contract. In August 2008, Sancho returned to the United States. In the second half of the 2008 season, he stood for the Atlanta Silverbacks FC on the court.

Since 26 February 2009, he played for the Rochester Rhinos, where he signed a two-year contract.

National

Sancho played in all youth national teams of his home, starting with the U-14 through to U -23 Olympic team, whose captain he was at times. In a senior international, he made ​​his debut in March 2000 in a qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup against the Netherlands Antilles 22 years old. Mostly he was a regular player of choice, but in 2005, he was mostly just a substitute. Sancho graduated 43 A- international matches for the Netherlands Antilles and part of the final squad of his native country for the 2006 World Cup in Germany. On 9 October 2006, he resigned from the national team.