Stuart Holden
Stuart Holden (2009)
Stuart Alistair Holden ( born August 1, 1985 in Aberdeen, Scotland ) is a Scottish- American soccer player at the position of midfielder. He currently plays for the English second division club Bolton Wanderers.
- 2.1 Honours
- 2.2 National team success
- 2.3 Individual successes
Career
Career start in Scotland and the USA
Holden spent his early years in his native Scotland, where he among other things, to 1995, the Aberdeen FC School of Excellence visited and there gained his first experience as a football player. The age of ten he moved with his family to Houston, Texas, where his father a job at Chevron Corporation, one of the world's biggest oil companies, got there and worked in Human Resources. In his new home he initially played in various youth football clubs, such as the Eclipse Soccer Club, Sugar Land or the Texans FC Soccer Club in Houston.
Later he was chosen in amateur base for the football team Awty International School, one of the largest private schools in the United States, active and has been three times to the Most Valuable Player ( MVP ) of the team and was in all the three years in the All-State First Team. At the same time came to Holden for the college team of Clemson University, the Clemson Tigers in three semesters for use. In his freshman year, Holden came in twelve games available for use, in which he made two assists for his teammates. In the second year the Scot became as a sophomore to a regular player of the Clemson Tigers, where he scored three goals in 15 appearances and gave as many assists and next subsequent professional players like James Georgeff, Justin Moore, Nathan Sturgis, Landy Mattison or Hunter Gilstrap for use came.
In March 2005, Holden moved back yet during his studies in Europe and signed for Sunderland AFC, which had its gaming operations at this time in the second-rate Football League Championship. Only a short time after joining Holden was attacked on 12 March 2005 in Newcastle upon Tyne from a group consisting of four men, while he was staying with his brother and a friend outside a bar in the Tyneside area. Stuart Holden was beaten and suffered doing a zygomatic fracture and a triple fracture of the orbit. This injury prevented Holdens use in professional team of Sunderland, whose squad he belonged on the entire season.
The time at Houston Dynamo
After Holden was no single duty stake for the British, he went to the 2006 season, back to North America and signed with the professional league Major League Soccer, where he found shelter at Houston Dynamo. Holden, who still took the U.S. citizenship in the same year and since then has dual nationality, made his professional debut League on 27 May 2006 in a 1-1 away draw against New England Revolution. His first Profitor he scored on July 22, 2006 again against New England Revolution in a 1-1 home draw when he came in front of it until one minute for Brad Davis into the game and turned the ball in 63 minutes with his first touch to Record.
During his first professional season it brought Holden in 13 league operations, which, however, he never once played through the entire match times and often came only brief appearances, on a hit, and was also in two MLS Cup play-off matches for their team in the deployment. Greatest success this season was winning the MLS Cup, the final match of the MLS season in 2006, which fought out the team against New England Revolution and asserted itself in a penalty shoot-out. Holden came into this game for a few -minute short-term use and turned at the end of his kick.
In the 2007 season, it brought the Scot in a total of 22 league inserts a record of five goals and as many assists. Initially only active as a substitute, he came on June 21, 2007 with a 4-0 home victory over CD Chivas USA for the first time in his professional career over the full duration of the use. Good performances also brought Holden on 5 July 2007 in a 4-0 home victory over the New York Red Bulls, as he, due to an injury could not participate in the game Brad Davis, replaced from the start and scored a goal in the game itself and prepared two more goals. In the play-offs the midfielder came during this season, four times to use and was able to record a goal. As in the previous season Houston Dynamo managed to re- entry into the MLS Cup, the final endgame. There, the team was again able to enforce the challenger against New England Revolution and won 2-1; Holden was attributed to short-term use.
For regular players was midfielder who. On the left, as can be centrally deployed also in the 2008 non- However, he brought it to increasingly longer missions and was frequently over the entire season in use. In 27 league matches, he went to three goals and four assists. Among other things, Holden scored on 15 October 2008 in a 2-1 home victory over the San Jose Earthquakes with goals in each of the initial and the final stages of the encounter both goals for his team. For a total of seven missions of the 1.78 m wide midfielder came in the CONCACAF Champions League 2008 / 09, where, however, he retired with his team in the quarter- finals to eventual champion Atlante with a total score of 1:4 in return game. In addition, Holden could post two inserts in the play- offs in 2008. In the North American SuperLiga 2008 Holden reached with the Dynamos the finals and was with Ante Razov and Shalrie Joseph of the competition 's top scorer with three goals. The second place in the MLS Supporters' Shield in 2008 spoke for the fair play of Houston Dynamo, Holden also received in all its league operations during this season only three yellow cards. In addition, he was honored in 2008 by his team to " U.S. Soccer Humanitarian of the Year."
In the 2009 he made the long-awaited appearance as a regular player of the Texans. So he came in a total of 26 championship operations on six hits and served two times his teammates with assists. Besides, Holden was active in three play-off games and completed during the CONCACAF Champions League 2009/10 five games in which he scored two goals and contributed an assist. However, he resigned from Houston Dynamo already in the group stage during the current competition.
Change in the English Premier League
After completion of the MLS season in 2009, he went for the second time back to Europe and trained at the time playing in the Premier League Bolton Wanderers, where on January 25, followed in 2010 the official exchange. The Bolton Wanderers he comes next to the reserve team in the Premier Reserve League and the professional team to use. After his debut in the reserve team, he was on 10 February 2010, when he came into use at a 0-2 away defeat against the reserve of Manchester City in the first 61 minutes.
To his competitive debut for the professionals came Holden on February 24, 2010, when he was employed in the FA Cup in 2009/ 10 in the 0-4 away defeat against Tottenham Hotspur over the full duration. Only three days later, the midfielder was on February 27, his league debut. The 1-0 home win over Wolverhampton Wanderers, he was again on the full 90 minutes in use.
Internationally
First international experience gained Holden with the U.S. U -20 team for which he scored two goals in eleven internationals. He also stood from 2007 to 2008 in the cadre of U-23 national team of the United States and had played seven games and one goal. With the U-23 team, he represented during the football tournament of the 2008 Olympic Games, the U.S. and achieved on August 7, the only goal in a 1-0 victory over Japan. Nevertheless, the team reached in their group only the third of four courses. On 25 June 2009 Holden was first appointed to the cadre of the senior team of the USA at the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2009. On July 4, he made his A-Team debut he in the group stage (Group B) during the game against Grenada. Still in the same encounter Holden scored in the 31st minute header hit the 2-0 lead for his team. After further operations, the U.S. national team reached the finals of the tournament, where, however, the Mexican national team was defeated with 0:5. At the end of the competition Stuart Holden was voted alongside his compatriots Kenny Cooper, Chad Marshall and Clarence Goodson to the " All- Tournament Team".
In his first year as A-National player he managed already to eleven missions, which was an extraordinary achievement, as there is only one player (Jonathan Bornstein ) was in the past, in his debut year to more international appearances (12 operations in 2007 ) came. To date ( early March 2010) Holden came in twelve A- international matches for the United States to use them, scoring two goals. On 3 March 2010 he withdrew in a friendly match against the Netherlands after a kick by Nigel de Jong against his right leg a broken leg and fell to like this for almost three months. On 26 May 2010 he returned to the national team when he was in a World Cup warm-up match against the Czech Republic on the total playing time in use. In the 2:4 defeat of the Americans, he was one of the best players on the court. In May 2010, the national coach of the United States, Bob Bradley nominated the England Legionnaire in the preliminary 30 -man squad that will participate at the Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa. On 26 May 2010 he called Holden in the final 23 -man squad of the United States. After a further application in the 2-1 win in the preseason game against Turkey, he traveled with the team to South Africa for the World Cup finals. There he came in the first match of the Americans against England for a short stint, as he came onto the pitch in the 86th minute for Jozy Altidore; the game ended in a 1-1 draw.
Achievements
Honours
- 2x MLS Cup winner: 2006, 2007
- 2nd Place MLS Supporters' Shield: 2008
National successes
Individual successes
Life / Private
Stuart Holden was born in Scotland and lived there the first ten years of his childhood. Together with his family, he moved to Houston because his father there was a lucrative offer from the Chevron Corporation. In February 2009, Stuart's father Brian Holden died shortly before his 56th birthday, from pancreatic cancer.
His mother and younger sister still live in Houston. His sister Rachell 's track and field athlete at the Awty International School who also attended Stuart Holden. Since 2006 he is in possession of U.S. citizenship and since dual nationality. Stuart's brother Euan is also active as a footballer and is currently (2010) the pro squad of the Danish professional football clubs Vejle BK.