Seth Stammler

Seth Matthew Stammler ( born September 29, 1981 in Gahanna, Ohio ) is a former American football player who played on the positions of a midfielder and defender. His last stop was the New York Red Bulls, who play in Major League Soccer.

Career

Youth and Amateur Football

Stammler began his active career as a football player at Lincoln High School and later played for the Gahanna Middle School East in his hometown. In 2000 he sat on the football team at the University of Maryland in College Park continues his career. In soccer team of the University itself Stammler was able to prevail as team captain and was able to help the team to success. Until his departure from the university in 2003, he completed 87 games for the University football team, scoring eight goals.

MetroStars / RBNY

In MLS SuperDraft 2004 Stammler was drafted in the second round as the 18th pick to the MetroStars. Even before the 2004 season, he hurt himself so hard at the ankle, so it turned out for the rest of the season and only at the end of the season with a four-minute short-term mission made ​​his pro debut. In the following season, 2005 Stammler came to ten inserts, of which he stood in three games from the beginning on the court. Then he came into the 2006 season after the renaming of the Association of Metro Stars at New York Red Bulls at all positions (except the goalkeeper ) are used. In the same season he came to his first scoring when he scored the same 5-4 victory over Chivas USA on May 20, a brace. Over time, more and more Stammler could establish itself as a regular in the team and was in the 2007 season of 29 matches played in 28 games from the start on the lawn.

In September 2010 he announced that he would no longer want to be more active after the 2010 season to enter the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Private

In November 2006, Stammler undertook along with his teammates from RBNY Jozy Altidore and Jerrod Laventure a six-day trip to Haiti, where she attended the American musician Wyclef Jean at the non-profit project Yéle Haiti. Shortly thereafter, Stammler decided to start a similar organization itself and created the Sporting Chance Foundation ( SCF). The goal of SCF is to the people of Haiti to provide clean drinking water through the construction of wells, and to promote population education programs.