Marcus Hahnemann

Marcus Stephan Hahnemann ( born June 15, 1972 in Seattle, Washington, USA) is an American soccer goalkeeper. Since September 2011, he is under contract at Everton.

Sports career

Hahnemann was born in 1972 as a child coming from Hamburg German immigrants in Seattle, Washington. In his youth he was active off the football well for American football, basketball, baseball, motocross, BMX and skateboarding. He decided then to run the football more intense and was during his education at the local football teams between the posts. After playing in the Kentridge High School and an award as MVP and later graduated in the Newport High in 1988 in a season eleven games without conceding a goal, he played from then on also at Seattle Pacific University for the Falcons.

The 1.90 meter tall Hahnemann developed at the Falcons to one of the country's best goalkeeper and won in 1993, in his final year of study at the University, the championship in Division II of the NCAA. In addition, he set numerous records on, including 46 games during his time there as a whole and in the meantime 944 minutes in a row without conceding a goal. During this time he played in addition also in the U23 youth team of the State of Washington and won with this team in 1991 and 1992, two national championships.

Hahnemann then moved to the Seattle Sounders and signed there in January 1995, his first professional contract. The year before, he had already given his debut in the national team and came against Honduras, Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica to three international matches, which, however, only about nine years later, the fourth element should follow. In his first year with the Sounders in the former A-League, as the top U.S. professional league was called at that time, he was elected to be the best team of the season. He led his club to the 1996 A-League Championship and in 1997 in the recently created Major League Soccer to the Colorado Rapids.

Also in Colorado, he led after his debut as a substitute against Dallas Burn quickly and was there for the goalkeeper. For the 1999/2000 season Hahnemann then moved for 90,000 British pounds to the English second division side FC Fulham. He rarely came into use and was from the beginning only the spare man behind Maik Taylor. After the successful promotion to the Premier League with some inserts in cup competitions, he was through the purchase of the Dutch international goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar even only the third choice, so that he in 2001, first to the fourth division Rochdale AFC and then to the third division side FC Reading was borrowed. In Reading, which had in the meantime been promoted to the second division and Hahnemann bought final after the loan deal, Hahnemann was back to its old strength back, stood in 46 games in goal and led the club in 2003 in the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League. However, where the club was defeated by return match Wolverhampton Wanderers. After another season in which Hahnemann meantime injured his knee and turned out a few months, the club in the season 2005/ 06 succeeded in English as second division champions the promotion to the top flight. Hahnemann was able to show consistent and good and was developed by the Professional Footballers' Association - the association of professional footballers - selected in the Team of the Year of the Football League Championship.

On 17 June 2009 Hahnemann wrote in the Wolverhampton Wanderers, who had previously ascended in the 2008 /09 season in the Premier League, one-year contract plus an option for a subsequent extension for a further year. This option took the " Wolves " true after the successful maintenance class in May 2010. After a series of defeats, inter alia, also against rivals FC Blackpool, he was no longer considered as of November 2010. Hahnemann left the club after the season 2010/2011.

On September 23, 2011, he signed a contract at Everton.

Others

• Hahnemann has besides the U.S. also have a German passport, which was beneficial to his career in England, he therefore does not count there on the usable only in a limited number of non-EU foreigners.
• Marcus Hahnemann comes from an athletic family dominated. His sister Diana played college football at the University of Washington. Both he and Diana were cared for by his father in the school teams.
• A popular chant for Hahnemann at Reading FC was playing instead of its name, the cry of " USA".