Chris Leitch
Chris Leitch ( born April 1, 1979 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American football player at the position of a defender. He currently plays for the San Jose Earthquakes in the top division in the North American Soccer, Major League Soccer (MLS ).
Career
Beginnings and college football
Leitch began his active career as a football player in 1994 in the football team at the Pickerington High School Pickerington out in Ohio. After 1994 to 1997 as a football player, how could celebrate great successes as a basketball player, he moved to the " North Carolina Tar Heels" at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, which he attended from 1998 to 2001. During this time he came to a respectable 88 One Etched, where he was in 87 of these lots of start of the game in place. In the four years at the University, he scored a total of two hits, celebrated many successes and has received various honors.
Club career
In MLS SuperDraft 2002 Leitch was drafted in the fourth round, 47th pick to the Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer. After only one year and 13 appearances for the Crew Leitch transferred to the MetroStars, who also played in the MLS. His club debut at Metro, he celebrated on April 19, 2003, compared LA Galaxy in a 1-1 draw. During the 2003 season, Leitch injured right ankle and fell so out of a total of nine games. In the 2004 season he was in the team as Iron Man excellent because he had to show most completed minutes of play the entire team. At the end of the season he came in the return game of the playoffs in the semifinals of the Eastern Conference used. In 2005 he came to the second highest number of completed minutes of play of his career. From the 2006 season played Leitch, after he came in 72 appearances for the MetroStars used again for his former club Columbus Crew. After 24 games for the Crew Leitch became a free agent, but he chose shortly after the gambling under a new name club New York Red Bulls (formerly the MetroStars ) as its next stop. With the Red Bulls, he managed in 2008 to the final of the MLS Cup, where they were inferior to the sold-out Home Depot Center, the Columbus Crew 3-1. Until his departure in March 2009, he came for RBNY in 29 games available for use. At the start of the 2009 season on March 2, Leitch was transferred in exchange for an undisclosed sum and an international transfer space to the San Jose Earthquakes. In return, the striker John Cunliffe, and the German - Ethiopian midfielder Michael Ghebru were " exempted " from the game and were then vertragslos.
Achievements
- Tom Evins Award: 1999
- Nicholas Douglass Potter Coaches Award: 2000
- Convening of the All- Tournament Team at the Nike Carolina Classic Tournament: 2000
- All- ACC team: 2001
- NCAA National Championship: 2001
- Winner of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: 2002 with Columbus Crew
- MLS Cup Final: 2008 with NYRB