Timothy Chandler
Timothy Chandler (2011)
Timothy " Timmy " Chandler (born 29 March 1990 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German - American soccer player. He was already ten times for the U.S. national team in action.
Career
Youth
Chandler's father is an American soldier who was stationed in Germany. After his parents separated after his birth, he was raised by his German mother in Hesse. With the football games he started in the sport friends in Oberau / Old town before he went with eleven years to Eintracht Frankfurt. He had a very successful youth and was with the U-15 of the Association of South German master.
While still a teenager, he was A- 2007/ 08 first used end of the season in the U23 Frankfurt. At the end of the season the team was relegated from the league in Hesse in the Regionalliga Süd and Chandler played two more years in the fourth-highest league in which he established himself as a regular player.
Club career
In 2010 he moved to league rivals 1.FC Nürnberg II, which Chandler, who until then had played in the offensive was turned into a defensive player and used right or defensive midfielder. He played almost all parts of the Regional first round, scoring four goals.
It was first used in a test match for the first team of the franc against Sigma Olomouc Already on October 8, 2010. After briefly on two key players of the professionals had failed on the right side of defense and the replacement lineup had failed against 1 FC Kaiserslautern, his Bundesliga debut was in conversation, but foundered after returning from Juri Judt.
With the second round finally started the professional career of Chandler. He denied the preparation with the pros and went with in the training camp in Turkey. On the return half kick-off on 15 January 2011 against Borussia Mönchengladbach he sat for the first time on the bench. Just four days later, he was a substitute in the DFB - Pokal match against Kickers Offenbach in the closing minutes. And on 22 January, he was in the match against SC Freiburg Bundesliga debut to be - and thus his professional debut. There immediately followed another cup and use his home debut against Hamburger SV. 12 February 2011 ( 22 Matchday) he scored in a 4-1 win in the away game at VfB Stuttgart 3-1 and thus his first Bundesliga goal. He also prepared the 2-0. By the end of the season he took over the master position on the right side of defense and played in 14 of the 17 back round matches. In March 2011, Timothy Chandler extended his contract with the Franks ahead to 2013.
In the 2012/13 season he was then still controversy on the right back position. Only in the course of the season he was employed under new coach Michael Wiesinger propagated aggressively on the right side. 30 Matches graduated from the Frankfurt before he had to finish the season because of a lateral ligament crack initiation in knee prematurely. On the second matchday of the season Chandler returned to the team and took over from there again the master position in the right defensive. In the third game of the season, his 100th game in league and cup for the first FC Nuremberg, he was injured in a fall again heavily on his left knee and falls for a lateral meniscus tear again several weeks.
National
Timothy Chandler took part in a course of the German U - 17 national team in January 2007. Chandler, who has German and U.S. citizenship, expressed interest in January 2011 to play in the event of an appeal for the U.S. national team. After his breakthrough in the Bundesliga, he was brought into the squad of the U.S. national team for two friendlies end of March 2011 against Argentina and Paraguay. On March 26, 2011, he made his debut for the national team of the United States when he came off the bench in the game against Argentina for the second half for Jonathan Spector. In the match against Paraguay three days later he stood for the first time from the start for the national team on the court.
When the U.S. national team coach Jurgen Klinsmann Chandler nominated in May 2012 for the first qualifiers for the 2014 World Cup, he said Klinsmann from. Chandler explained his refusal by saying that he was not sure whether he wanted to continue to compete for the United States. After the U.S. canceled again for more World Cup qualifiers in September 2012, the Nuremberg sporting director Martin Bader said in this connection that Chandler felt more than German, pointing thus to the player rather than advocating play, through a competitive match for the USA wants to keep open the possibility to apply a dressing to the DFB. This was done after his first competitive application for the USA in the World Cup qualifier against Honduras on February 6, 2013.
Title / successes
- South German U-15 champion with Eintracht Frankfurt 2005
- Promotion to the Regionalliga Süd with Eintracht Frankfurt II 2008