Perry Kitchen
Perry Kitchen (* February 29, 1992 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is an American football player at the position of a defensive midfielder and defender. After just one season at the University of Akron, the young defensive player moved to DC United with game operation in the Major League Soccer ( MLS), the top division in the North American Football. In addition, Perry is one of the most frequently used players from the U.S. U-17 national team and former captain of the team, as well as current U-20 national team. There he enters since 2010 mostly as a captain in appearance.
- 2.1 with the Akron Zips
- 2.2 with the U-20 National Team
Career
Beginnings in football
The in Indianapolis, the capital of the U.S. state of Indiana, born in 1992 Kitchen began his career as a football player at a young age. When he mainly acted initially only on hobby basis, he belonged over the years, among other things the training club Chicago Magic SC headquartered in the state of Illinois. At the Club, the only mid-May 2011 the National Premier Leagues, a community of many amateur training clubs joined, several players have already been formed in the past that made it later in the professional sector and even acted on an international level. In addition to his training at the Chicago Magic Soccer Club and its actual education came Kitchen, which has both an approximately two -year-older brother, also a about four years younger sister, at the IMG Soccer Academy to Bradenton, Florida. Here he was, however, formed only briefly and cited numerous other players who then make the leap into professional football managed the graduating class of fall 2009. Remaining time he spent 2007-2009 in the support program of the U- 17 national team of the United States, which is in cooperation with the IMG Soccer Academy. Under the multiple Colombian International Wilmer Cabrera came Kitchen relying more and more used and promoted in the course of time, even to the captain of the U.S. U- 17 team. With the team he took, among others, at the CONCACAF U -17 Championship in 2009 in part, where the Americans in Group A clearly dominated and with the group winners of Group B, the U -17 Mexico, the best teams tournament presented. Due to the swine flu outbreak of 2009, the final rounds of the competition were not played from the semifinal and withdrawn from the competition prematurely. All four semi-finalists, the U.S. and Mexico as well as the two runners-up states Honduras and Costa Rica were to automatically qualify for the U- 17 World Cup in the same year. At the local finals in Nigeria, the North Americans were indeed still prevail in group stage, as they occurred in second place in their group, behind the age colleague from Spain in the knockout stage. However, they parted there against the U- 17 national team from Italy with 1:2 from the current tournament. This was also the last major tournament, attended the Kitchen in the course of his work for the U- 17 team in his home country. Even before that, he completed numerous missions in mini-tournaments or friendly matches, where he brought it in the years 2007 to 2009, a total of 34 scoreless international appearances. But even back in the days before his U-17 activity was convened Kitchen continuously in the youth teams of the United States. So he recorded, among others in 2005 a nomination of the U.S. U-14 squad, as well as in the years 2006 and 2007 conscription in the U-15 squad in the USA.
With advanced age Kitchen came in 2010 as a freshman at the University of Akron, where the members of the National Honor Society, at the same time the university's sports department, the Akron Zips joined. This year, he started for the team as an alternate midfielders and defenders in 25 league games, scoring six goals and gave an assist for his teammates. Due to his achievements in the course of the season he was voted among other things, the " All- MAC First Team ", where he scored during the season, in the semifinals of the National Cup against Michigan, also a hit from about 30 yards away. After a 1-0 victory in the final against the Louisville Cardinals at the University of Louisville, the team also won the first time in its history, the champion in football under Kitchens help. But the defensive player spent by far not the complete season with the Akron Zips, but was released among other things, in the off-season at the University to the unterklassig gambling franchise Chicago Fire Premier. When you team with game operation in the USL Premier to be regarded as viertklassig Development League Kitchen, however, was used only in a single game and played it through over the full duration. But also other meetings in other U.S. national selections for Kitchen followed this year, inter alia in the U-18 squad in the USA. Moreover Kitchen was elected by College Soccer News and Top Drawer Soccer for " Freshman All-American ", convened regularly in Junior selection of the United States. He was nominated by U-20 head coach Thomas Rongen in the 18 -man squad for the Milk Cup in 2010, among others, in July 2010. In elite competition ( for U-19 teams), the team could dominate in many parts of the tournament and thus won the final game against the eternal hosts from Northern Ireland sovereign 3-0. By the end of 2010, it brought Kitchen on five official, but again scoreless international appearances. After a passable verlaufenen 2010 Perry Kitchen end of December 2010 was equipped as a total of no less than five Akron players with a Generation Adidas contract. Previously he beat out an offer for the trial of RSC Anderlecht to come to a generation Adidas contract. Already in the course of the year, the Belgian club had taken with the U.S. International Sacha Kljestan under contract. Shortly after admission to the joint venture was Kitchen in MLS SuperDraft in 2011 as the third pick in the first round to DC United drafted, the defensive player has been previously considered by many to be " the best player of the Super Drafts 2011", including the football blog Soccer By Ives. After the draft said the coach of the franchise, Ben Olsen, that the management of the club would have voted Kitchen, if you would have been in possession of the first picks since Kitchen was appealing because of its quality from the start.
Rapid breakthrough in D.C. United
Soon after his draft to the club with gaming operations in the top flight of North America where he celebrated his breakthrough. With a contract with maturity in 2014 equipped, he received the shirt number 23 and is mostly used on defensive positions. His competitive debut was finally Kitchener on March 19, 2011 at the season opening game of his team against the Columbus Crew franchise, as he stood right in the starting lineup and played in this until the end. In the rest of the season, he brought it to date (as of 16 May 2011 ) to a total of seven appearances in the regular season, six of whom he was in from the start on the lawn and was where used over the full duration. In addition, the temporary captain of the U-20 National Team was convened by Thomas Rongen in the 20 -man squad in March 2011, which was to take part in the CONCACAF U- 20 Championship 2011. With the team, he completed all three games until leaving in the quarterfinals against the age colleague from Guatemala. Initially as a defensive player, Kitchen has already appeared in the second match as a midfielder and team captain in appearance. In the last encounter before he moved off again on the defensive line, but retained his position as captain at. With the early exit in the current competition, the Americans were able for the first time since the Junior World Cup 1995 in Qatar do not qualify for the World Cup finals. In his eighth league use, a 3-2 win over the Portland Timbers 29 May 2011, in the 13th minute he scored the goal for the 1-0 lead for United.
Achievements
With the Akron Zips
- College Soccer News ' Freshman All-American ": 2010
- Top Drawer Soccer " Freshman All-American ": 2010
- Master of the NCAA Men 's Division I Soccer Championship: 2010
With the U-20 National Team
- Winner of the Elite -petition in the Milk Cup: 2010