Teal Bunbury
Teal Bunbury (born 27 February 1990 in Hamilton, Ontario ) is an American- Canadian football player.
Youth and College
Bunbury was born in 1990 in Hamilton, Ontario in Canada. His mother is from the U.S. and his father, former professional football player Alex Bunbury, is Canadian. At the age of two, he moved with his family to England, as his father played for West Ham United. One year later, Alex Bunbury joined Marítimo Funchal in Portugal. As Teal was ten years old, he came back to the United States. From then on, he lived in Prior Lake, Minnesota, and attended Shattuck -St. Mary's High School in Faribault. Before he went to college, he played for Apple Valley Juventus.
At the University of Akron, he played for two years in the college team and was employed in 48 games. In the 2008 season, he scored six goals in 23 games, and thus became the second best scorer of the team. For the 2009 season the former striker Steve Zakuani left the favorite team and Bunbury was used in all games, including the final Division I Men 's College Cup. With 17 goals, he was the top scorer of the year in college football. During the season, Bunbury received many awards. He was elected three times to the Player of the Week in the Mid- American Conference and was in the Top Drawer Soccer 's National Team of the Week.
During his time at college he also played for the Rochester Thunder in the USL Premier Development League and Chicago Fire Premier in the USL Super -20 League.
Club career
After two years with the Akron Zips to want to continue to play football Bunbury decided and signed with Major League Soccer a Generation Adidas contract. He was drafted in the first round of the MLS SuperDraft 2010 by the Kansas City Wizards.
He made his debut on 27 March 2010 at the first game of the Wizards in the MLS 2010 season against DC United. On April 13 in the U.S. Open Cup match against the Colorado Rapids, he scored his first goal. Although he played as a center forward during his college days, he plays in the MLS more as an attacking midfielder or behind the strikers.
National
Bunbury played from 2007 to 2009 for the U -17 and U-20 Canada. Although he stated in an interview, not wanting to play for the U.S. but for Canada, he took on November 11, 2010, the invitation to be appointed to the senior team of U.S..
On 17 November 2010 he made his international debut in the match against South Africa.
In his second international Bunbury scored his first international goal. In a friendly against Chile on 22 January 2011, he scored with a penalty in the 75th minute and thus equalized to 1:1 draw.