Cornelius Stewart

Stewart ( right) wearing the jersey of the Whitecaps (2010)

Cornelius Stewart ( born October 7, 1989 in Kingstown ) is a vince matic football players.

Club career

Stewart was born in Kingstown on St. Vincent, but grew up in the nearby suburb Questelles. From 2001 to 2007 he played in the youth field in System 3 FC before he played in the country's highest class of the island nation for Hope International from 2007. End of 2009, Stewart came to the Vancouver Whitecaps, where also his compatriot Marlon James was under contract, and completed in the subsequent 2010 season in the USSF Division 2 Professional League 19 League games (2 goals ). Shortly before the end of the season he was removed from the squad, as his participation in internationals before was to create space for other players.

For the 2011 season the Whitecaps advanced to the Major League Soccer, but Stewart won, although team internally named " Newcomer of the Year 2010", a contractual offer. Instead, part of the striker, whose strengths are his quickness and his athleticism, on to residency contingent of Whitecaps in the USL PDL, but trained with professional team and is also eligible for the reserve team in the MLS Reserve Division for use.

National

With the U -20 team from St. Vincent and the Grenadines Stewart took part in the qualifying rounds of the CONCACAF U-20 Championship 2009 part. He scoring eleven goals in seven games. In the first qualifying round get him both goals in the 2-1 against Guyana as well as the 1-0 winner against Grenada and also in 23:1 victory over the British Virgin Islands, he met five times. In the 2nd round he scored the only vince matic hits in a 1-0 victory against St. Kitts and Nevis, which was enough to move into the third round. This was held in Kingstown and the team missed after two wins against the Dominican Republic and Haiti ( winning goal by Stewart) only by a 0-2 defeat in the last game against Jamaica in front of 4,000 spectators direct qualification for the continental finals. As a runner-up in the Caribbean zone of St. Vincent had to then play-off against Honduras, Central America take third in the qualification. Stewart brought here his team a penalty in the first -half lead, Honduras turned the game but in the second half and still qualified with a 3-1 win for the final round.

2007 Stewart made ​​his debut in the senior team of St. Vincent and the Grenadines. In 2008 he came on as a substitute in the 1:4 - leg loss against Canada in qualifying for the World Cup 2010 for use in the Caribbean Championship 2010, he completed all six games in his home country and led the team to Montserrat as a captain, when he made his first international goal achieved.