Craig Henderson

Craig Charles Glendinning Henderson ( * June 24, 1987 in Lower Hutt ) is a New Zealand soccer player.

Club career

Henderson twice won the New Zealand Youth Championship and came in the 2004/05 season as a player of Team Wellington in the New Zealand Football Championship used several times before he went to study in the United States in 2006, where he played for the local football team of Dartmouth College. In 2008 he was honored as the best player in the Ivy League, 2009, he was captain of his college team. With the end of his college career after four years, he moved in early 2010 to the Swedish Erstligaaufsteiger Mjallby AIF. In the preseason Henderson suffered a cruciate ligament injury and falls for many months.

National

Henderson went through all New Zealand youth national teams. With the U -20 team in 2007, he took part in the World Youth Championship in Canada and trained there in the first two games together with Jeremy Brockie the striker. 2008 was part of the squad for the Olympic football tournament in China; Henderson came here in all three group games in right midfield for use, left with his crew but, as already in the U -20 World Cup a year earlier in the group stage.

From coach Ricki Herbert of the offensive player was appointed in February 2010 for an upcoming friendly against Mexico for the first time in the roster of A- national team, but had to cancel because of its suffered in training with Mjallby cruciate ligament injury.