Danny Cruz

Daniel " Danny" Arthur Quimoy Cruz ( born January 3, 1990 in Petersburg, Virginia) is an American football player at the position of a striker.

He currently plays for D.C. United in the top division in the North American Soccer, Major League Soccer (MLS ).

Career

Youth and Amateur Football

Cruz began his active career as a football player at the Ironwood High School in Glendale, Arizona, without ever having played football before. Cruz spent much of his childhood in Glendale and refers to the city itself, as the place where he grew up. In his first year at the Ironwood HS he played football and roller hockey and came only in its second year, the football team after the coach of the football team became aware of him because of his speed and Cruz persuaded to join the team. In 2005, he won with the high school team, the Eagles, the championship. Furthermore, he could at the Ironwood High School, where he was also a year in the baseball team, celebrate a number of personal achievements. Throughout his high school time Cruz scored 70 goals and created the number of goals scored a new record in the state of Arizona on. In addition to the inserts for the Eagles, he collected the Sereno Soccer Club, an amateur club from Glendale, on further experience.

2007 Cruz moved to the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, UNLV briefly, where he came to a multitude of missions in the university football team, the Rebels. In his freshman year he was employed in 14 games, of which he stood from the beginning on the square in 13. Overall Cruz came this year to a record of four league matches, as well as four assists. The first two games he missed, because he completed games for the U.S. U- 17 team. In 2008, he scored five goals in the championship.

During his college years, Cruz played for Des Moines Menace in the USL Premier Development respected as viertklassig League. When amateur club from West Des Moine, Iowa, he scored three goals in seven matches played.

Club career

Cruz's career as a professional soccer player began in early January 2009, when he signed a Generation Adidas contract and thereby also for the MLS SuperDraft 2009 qualified, the vonstattenging on January 15. He was drafted as the 41st overall pick in the 3rd round to Houston Dynamo. His professional debut in Major League Soccer, he was on 28 March 2009 in the 2:3 away defeat against the San Jose Earthquakes when he came on in the 79 minutes for Wade Barrett.

Internationally

In 2007, only slightly more than three years after he had come for the first time with football in contact, Cruz was in the 21 -man squad of the U.S. U- 17 team for the U-17 FIFA World Cup 2007 appointed to South Korea. He also represented the country at the Pan American Games in Brazil in 2007. Since 2008, Cruz is in the squad of the U -20 national teams of the United States, 2009, he participated with the team at the Junior World Championship in Egypt, and was used there in two games. For the team he was to date 18 times in the use and scoring three goals.