Brian McBride
Brian McBride ( born June 19, 1972 in Arlington Heights, Illinois ) is a former American football player who was active in the American MLS franchise Chicago Fire SC last.
In addition, McBride is a former national team of the United States and was designed by Bruce Arena, nominated for the 2006 World Cup in Germany, his third after 1998 and 2002 World Cup.
Sports career
McBride has played in the Buffalo Grove High School football very successful and helped his school team in 1988 to a championship of the State of Illinois. The 1.83 meter tall and strong striker header attended from 1990 in Missouri Saint Louis University and developed there until his graduation in 1993, one of the nation's best player and scorer of his university.
On March 26, 1993 McBride made his debut in the match against Honduras for the U.S. national team and in early 1994 joined briefly the lower class team in Milwaukee Rampage. For the 1994/95 season he moved to Europe in the 2nd Bundesliga for VfL Wolfsburg, came there but not on the status of a supplementary player out and returned to North America in his homeland, where he holds the top position of the draft system to Columbus Crew in 1996, the U.S. major League Soccer, which went into its first season, returned home. On 3 November the same year he scored his first international goal against Guatemala.
McBride's first year for Columbus was very successful with 17 own hits. He also scored in the second qualifying round of the World Cup in France in 1998 the first goal in a 2-1 victory over Costa Rica. In 1997, McBride came for his club on only thirteen games, but also met twice in the final qualifying round against El Salvador. Despite a yield of ten goals in the subsequent season, he missed it continue for the club a lot of the games, the reason was that he was needed at the same time for the national team and also nominated in the squad for the World Cup final tournament in France been. In this tournament, he scored the only goal of the U.S. national team, which was eliminated after the first round.
In 1999, he scored two goals for the national team in the Confederations Cup and took his team to third place. With Columbus Crew he reached the finals of the Eastern Conference and subject to this DC United. This was followed in 2000 by an injury -plagued cheekbone broken season in which McBride came only six goals. In September of the same year he was loaned for a short time at the English club Preston North End and graduated in the championship eight games before he returned to the United States. His injury woes continued and McBride came in 2001 in the qualifying phase for the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea only sporadically inserts.
A power reached its peak McBride then in 2002. He won the Gold Cup with the national team and was chosen in the best team of the tournament. Even at the football World Cup, he celebrated a surprise win, shot at his five appearances against Portugal and Mexico each have a goal and was eliminated only in the quarter -finals to eventual finalist from Germany. With his club, Columbus Crew, he also won the U.S. Open Cup his first major club titles.
In January 2003, McBride closed for three months at Everton and ran up the side of the then 17 -year-old Wayne Rooney. After four goals in the first six games, he became a crowd favorite, but then declined again after the end of the loan period back to Columbus. After another season in the United States, he moved to the beginning of 2004 for a transfer fee of one million dollars for Fulham and signed there a 2 ½ -year contract. He developed there from now on to regular players and solved in the national team in the same year Joe -Max Moore scorer from.
In 2005, McBride was elected all times in the best eleven of the MLS.
In July 2006, shortly after the World Cup, he announced his retirement from international football. In the summer of 2008, he ran as captain of the U.S. Olympic team in football in Beijing.
On 30 July 2008 McBride moved to Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer, he came in exchange for Chad Barrett, as the Toronto FC had the rights to Brian McBride Trade.
In September 2010, McBride announced end of his career at end of season.
Others
- McBride's nickname is " Bake ".
- He is committed to the Central Ohio Diabetes Association to treat diabetes mellitus.
Achievements
- Gold Cup winner: 2002
- U.S. Open Cup winner: 2002