Jeff Cunningham

Jeff Cunningham ( born August 21, 1976 in Montego Bay, Jamaica ) is an American soccer player who was born in Jamaica. He plays since 2012 for the San Antonio Scorpions FC in the North American Soccer League.

Career

College

Cunningham came to Jamaica to the world. At the age of fourteen he moved to Crystal River, Florida. From 1994 to 1997 he attended the University of South Florida and played for the football college team in the South Florida Bulls. In his first and second year he was appointed to the respective best choice of all players in the Conference USA. In his last year he was even open, so named Conference USA Player of the Year Player of the Year. Overall, he scored 41 goals for the USF and prepared 36 more ago.

Change in the MLS

When MLS College Draft 1998, he was selected by the Columbus Crew as the ninth overall pick in the first round. In his first year, he completed 25 games, where he functioned mostly as a substitute. He scored eight goals and set a new record for the most goals the player has scored in his first MLS season ( since been surpassed by Damani Ralph ). As of the 1999 season he was used regularly and became one of the most important players on the team. He was elected to the best eleven of MLS in 2002 and won the team title in the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. After a disappointing 2004 season, he exits from the crew to the Colorado Rapids. Columbus received for this a preferential right in the draft process. Cunningham had scored the most goals of the team so far and shares the record with Brian McBride.

His first season at Rapids he was able to conclude with twelve gates. The MLS All -Star Game in 2005, he scored two goals against Fulham. After the 2005 season he was traded for Clint Mathis of Real Salt Lake.

In 2006 he was sixteen gates scorer in the Major League Soccer and the MLS was awarded the Golden Boot award. During the 2007 season he moved to Toronto FC. Salt Lake was awarded Alecko Eskandarian. In Toronto, he received 96 symbolized as a back number which his most goals scored in Major League Soccer. During his second season he fell out of favor at the Canadian Club. He had the chance to score a goal, which would have meant a place in the CONCACAF Champions League.

On 8 August 2008 he moved to FC Dallas. In the first game for the Texans Cunningham scored his first goal for the new club. This was also his 100th goal in the MLS. In 2009, he scored seventeen goals and won the Golden Boot, the award for the best scorers in the MLS regular season. After the 2010 season, FC Dallas defeated the option to extend the contract and Cunningham came in the first taking place MLS Re - Entry Draft. There he was selected on 15 December by the Columbus Crew. But before it came to signing a contract, he trained at the Norwegian first division with IK Start.

On 28 January 2011 he was officially committed and played his first game for the Crew on February 22, 2011.

After half a year left Cunningham Columbus Crew and moved to the CSD Comunicaciones Guatemala.

For the 2012/13 season, he joined the North American Soccer League for the San Antonio Scorpions FC.

National

In 1999 he received his first cap for the Jamaican national football team. It was used in a friendly against Ghana. In November 2001 he received the U.S. citizenship and is therefore eligible to play for the national football team of the United States because he had not played a competitive match for Jamaica.

Cunningham made ​​his international debut on 9 December 2001 compared South Korea. After he was not appointed for four years in the national team, he was invited in November 2009 for two friendly matches. In the match against Denmark on 18 November 2009 he scored his first international goal.