Brian Ching

Ching after his farewell game (2013 )

Brian Ching ( born May 24, 1978 in Haleiwa, Honolulu County, Hawaii ) is a former American football player and current - functionary of Chinese descent. The Committee, header and combative center forward was also the first Hawaiians who came into the MLS used and completed a soccer match for the U.S..

Sports career

Player

Ching began playing football at the age of seven years and joined in his home the local Honolulu Bulls. With the support of his mother, who looked after him in his early youth as a trainer, Ching then played at various tournaments on the U.S. mainland and was there discovered by the team coach at the University of Gonzaga University. In Spokane, Washington, he led his team to two league titles in the "West Coast Conference " and during his time between 1996 and 2000 he succeeded total of 34 goals and 23 assists, which he in due to severe meniscus injury and the subsequent surgery on his right knee the full season of 1998 was sidelined. At times he acted during his training also for the club Spokane Shadow in the USL Premier Development League Amateur League ( PDL).

In 2001, he moved about the draft system of the MLS as classified at the 16th position player for Los Angeles Galaxy in the U.S. professional league. There he came in eight games, including two play-off matches, used and scored one goal. He was then released in 2002 at the Seattle Sounders, in the A-League, a second-rate league in the United States, played and Ching had already been used during his time in Los Angeles on loan. He was elected to Seattle to become the second top scorer in the league and the team of the season.

Ching then left the A-League again and secured via an additionally furnished Draft Round in February 2003, the club San Jose Earthquakes of the services of striker. After Dwayne DeRosario had sustained a serious knee injury in the preseason, Ching was then immediately in the starting lineup of his new club. There he established himself henceforth, came in May even against Wales at home in Spartan Stadium for his first international match, until August 2003, he tore the Achilles tendon and thereby turned out for the rest of the season and thus missed the crucial stage when his club the Championship won. In 2004 he acquired his position in the starting back and shot in the season 12 goals, which he - along with Eddie Johnson - became the top scorer. He received the award for Best Comeback of the Year ( " MLS Comeback Player of the Year" ) and was in the best eleven of the league this season (MLS Best XI) selected. In the National Ching has been widely used in qualifying matches for the 2006 World Cup. In his four games for the United States in 2004, a total he scored in his three competitive games each a goal against Jamaica and El Salvador.

In 2005, he scored seven goals for the Earthquakes in 16 games, but retired in May in a game against FC Dallas an injury to the Achilles tendon that forced him temporarily to longer breaks. In the Elf by Bruce Arena, he continued to come to six games, including three qualifying matches.

After a total of 25 goals for San Jose followed Ching, together with his teammates the Earthquakes, his relocated to Houston and renamed " Houston Dynamo" and the newly formed club. There, he scored in the first game against Dynamo Colorado Rapids on April 2, 2006, four gates, which was only six other players previously succeeded in the history of MLS.

Finally, in the same year he was with his team win the title in the MLS, the MLS Cup and got after the season the award for the best goal of the year awarded.

In MLS Expansion Draft 2011, he was drafted by Montreal Impact. After he had trained a month with the Canadians, he returned in February 2012 back to Houston and finally finished in 2013 his active playing career.

Functionary

In December 2013, Ching was introduced as the first manager of the newly formed women's football franchise Houston Dash, which will compete in the National Women 's Soccer League from the 2014 season.

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