Tim Howard
Howard ( 2011)
Timothy Matthew " Tim " Howard ( born March 6, 1979 in North Brunswick Township, New Jersey) is an American soccer goalkeeper and national team.
Career
Beginnings in New Jersey
Tim Howard is the son of an African American father and a Hungarian mother, who had emigrated to the popular uprising in 1956 in the United States. Tim Howard grew up in New Jersey in poor conditions. His career as a professional football player started right after high school. He played for the North Jersey Imperials in the United Soccer Leagues ( USISL ).
Major League Soccer
1998 took him to Major League Soccer ( MLS) under contract, which housed him in the NY / NJ MetroStars. For this team he played until 2003. Howard was initially behind goalkeeper Tony Meola, later behind Mike Ammann, but moved up to number one, as Ammann was sold before the 2001 season. Just because he often played behind a miserable Metro defense, he showed convincing performance at great effort. So in 2001 he was the " Goalkeeper of the Year" ( Goalkeeper of the Year ) as well as the MLS -elected in 2001 and 2002 in the " MLS Best XI " ( Team of the Year ) in the years
Premier League
In the middle of the MLS season in 2003 Manchester United took Howard under contract, where he replaced the French international Fabien Barthez. He thus became the first U.S. American who was used for the first team of Manchester United. His start in the new club fell out of pleasing; he held the winning penalty in the Supercup match against Arsenal. Later in the season he was out of shape and lightly indebted goal for FC Porto, which meant the elimination in the Champions League for United. After a pause for Howard but retook the position in the goal of Roy Carroll and won the FA Cup final for his first title on the island. In his first season he was also elected to the English team of the year ( "PFA Best XI " ), and was in this virtual team is the only player of Manchester United.
For the second year in Manchester, there were many changes in the gate between Howard and Carroll, since both underwent a series of blunders. At the end of the season Howard signed a new contract is valid until 2009 with United. The club was in the summer of 2005, its two competitors in the goal ( Ricardo López Felipe and Carroll ) free - but bought shortly after the experienced Dutch goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar. This angered Howard so that he stated in an interview that he had not signed his new contract if he had even suspected that Van der Sar was on his way to United.
In May 2006, his club reached an agreement with Everton on a loan deal for the season 2006/07. In February 2007, a Permanentervertrag of the loan agreement and Howard signed for five years at Everton. On January 4, 2012 he succeeded at 1:2 in the match against Bolton Wanderers his first goal for his club when he met the interim 1-0 after a back pass within the sixteen meters space from a Torentfernung of approximately 100 meters. Matchday 15 of the 2013/2014 season Howard completed his 250th league appearance for Everton in the game against Arsenal, the match ended 1-1.
Inserts for the national team
For the U.S., Howard played for the first time at the U -20 World Cup Nigeria 1999. In the Summer Olympics 2000, he was second behind goalkeeper Brad Friedel. On 10 March 2002, he had his first A- use against Ecuador. By early 2006, he played 15 times internationally for the U.S. national team.
He had the bad luck that in front of him with Friedel ( of his career, however, ended in February 2005 ) and the former Borussia Moenchengladbach goalkeeper Kasey Keller also two top-class goalkeepers were or are in the national team. When Confederations Cup 2009 Howard stood in all five games of the USA in the goal. After he showed some weaknesses in the first game, he was better organized in its future operations in the tournament and so came to some fine saves. With the national team, he came to the finals of the competition. He was honored with the Golden Glove Award for best goalkeeper.
Also for the discharged in South Africa Football World Cup 2010, he was mustered into the U.S. squad. As a goalkeeper, he completed all four parts of his home country over the full season and qualified as winners of Group C with the Soccer Boys for the second round, in which he was defeated by the United States after extra time against Ghana and thus eliminated from the tournament.
Trivia
Tim Howard has Tourette's syndrome since childhood. He has sudden muscle jerks on one arm, one eye or neck, sometimes on some muscles simultaneously. Only if the ball comes near him none of this is felt. In 2001 he received from the MLS entitled " Humanitarian of the Year" ( German as " Benefactor of the Year" ) for his work with individual suffering from Tourette's syndrome children.
Achievements
- FA Cup Winners: 2004
- English League Cup Winners: 2006
- Community Shield Winner: 2003
- 1 × Confed Cup finalist: 2009
- Award for the best goalkeeper at the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup ( Golden Glove )
Social Commitment
Howard is engaged as ambassador to Show Racism the Red Card.