Kasey Keller
Kasey Keller (2007)
Kasey Keller ( born November 29, 1969 in Olympia, Washington ) is a retired American soccer goalkeeper.
Club career
His career began in the basement with the team the Portland Timbers, before moving to Millwall FC during the 1990/91 season in the English Premier League. After five years at FC Millwall he went to the 1996/97 season to Leicester City.
From Leicester City, his path led in the season 1999/2000 to Spain to Rayo Vallecano. He moved back in August 2001 in the English Premier League Tottenham Hotspur. For the 2004/05 season he was loaned to FC Southampton, but he was there only substitute keeper. That's why he moved to the winter break of the 2004/05 season in the Bundesliga to Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Although he had at the beginning still settling problems, but he blossomed at the end of the season the hoped-for support and had large interests in the league. After coach Dick Advocaat admitted as coach of Borussia, there have been rumors that Keller returns to the U.S. after the season. However, this was immediately denied by him and thus he kept in the season 2005/ 06, the Gate of Borussia Mönchengladbach. For the season 2006/ 07 he was elected by his fellow players to the team captain.
His contract ran out in Mönchengladbach on 30 June 2007 and was subsequently not renewed. Keller completed a total of 78 Bundesliga matches for " foal " and was an absolute crowd favorite. The fans gave him the nickname "The Wall".
Shortly before the end of the transfer window in summer 2007 signed a contract with the Premier League basement club Fulham FC.
On August 12, 2008, Major League Soccer announced a press conference for their franchise Seattle Sounders FC for August 14, to announce the second round of contract obligations for Season 2009. The reason for the press conference to announce that Kasey Keller will return to his home state of Washington to play for the new team was.
He stood in the first game of the Sounders in the MLS on 19 March 2009 in the gate. The team won 3-0 against the New York Red Bulls. He also was able to win with the Sounders U.S. Open Cup in 2009 and 2010.
Kasey Keller finished on November 3, 2011 after the off in the quarter-final against Real Salt Lake his career.
National
Keller went through various youth and junior national teams of the United States, he took among other things, 1987 and 1989 participated in the Junior World Cup.
For the U.S., the goalkeeper denied 102 matches, of which he won 52 games.
He took part in the football world championships in 1990, 1998, 2002 and 2006, however, came only in 1998 and 2006 are used. In the years 1997, 1999 and 2005 he was voted Footballer of the Year in the USA.
In football tournament at the Summer Olympic Games 1996 Keller was one of the three allowable older players goalkeeper of the Olympic team of the United States.
With the national team of the United States Keller won the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2005 and 2007. According to this tournament, he announced his retirement from international football.
Private
- After his move to Borussia Mönchengladbach, Keller fulfilled a childhood dream and moved with his family in an old knight's castle, house Donk, in Tönisvorst.
- The American pop band Barcelona wrote a song about the basement.
- In his hometown of Lacey, Washington, a street was named after him. It is close to his old high school " North Thurston High School ."