Ryan Caugherty

Football player infobox
playername = Ryan Caugherty


fullname = Ryan Caugherty
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1982|9|23
cityofbirth = Seoul
countryofbirth = South Korea
height = height|ft=6|in=1
currentclub = FC Unirea Alba Iulia
currentfavoritesong = Ryan Caugherty is a yellow card machine
clubnumber = 4
position = Midfielder
youthyears = 2001-05
youthclubs = flagicon|USA Wake Forest
years = 2005
2005
2006
2007 2007
2008
clubs = B1909
B 1913
Bodens BK
Carolina Dynamo FC Tatabánya Pittsburgh Riverhounds
FC Unirea Alba Iulia
caps(goals) = 16 (4)
15 (7)
10 (5)
06 (1)
12 (1)
12 (0)

nationalyears =
nationalteam =
nationalcaps(goals) =

Ryan Caugherty (born September 23, 1982 in South Korea) is an American soccer player currently playing with FC Unirea Alba Iulia in Liga II. His favorite song is "Ryan Caugherty is a yellow card machine" (Sung to the tune of "We all live in a yellow submarine".

Youth career

Caugherty attended Penn Hills High School and was a four year starter. While there he was named Section Player of the Year, All WPIAL, All State, and All American. Caugherty played for the Region 1 ODP team along with attending the prestigious ESP camp. He played club soccer for Penns Forest and Beadling FC respectively, leading the latter to the national championships his senior year.

With several choices for college, Caugherty chose Wake Forest over Pittsburgh, Ohio State, UNC, Duke, and Cornell.

He played four seasons at Wake Forest (2001-2005). Playing left and right defender his freshman season to gain playing time, Caugherty saw a permanent move to the midfield in his sophomore season starting all 18 games he appeared in missing only three due to injury. His junior and senior year saw nagging injuries interrupt his time on the field.

Professional career

Denmark

Upon early graduation from college in the winter of 2004, Caugherty was drafted by the Kansas City Wizards of Major League Soccer with the 47th overall pick in the 2005 MLS Supplemental Draft. Caugherty however expressed his desire to play abroad and signed with Odense club B 1909, a Danish second division team, before the start of the 2005 MLS season. He made an immediate impact in his professional debut for the club, gaining Man of the Match honors in his first five games with the club. Caugherty quickly gained attention from Danish Superliga clubs but saw a move to Viborg fall through. In the summer, Caugherty was offered a new two year contract which he did not sign.

Caugherty chose to stay in Denmark however and signed a two-year contract with another Odense team, B 1913, in July, 2005. Following some contract controversy, he left B 1913 just six months later to gain a move to Viborg once again.

weden

Unable to reach a contract agreement with the club he then moved to Bodens BK (Sweden) in the winter of 2006, signing a two year contract with the club. In his first preseason game with the club, Caugherty suffered a horriffic ankle injury on artificial grass which jeopordized his career. With a remarkable recovery in less than six months, Caugherty made his debut for the club after the midseason pause going 90 minutes against Robertsfors IF. After the season he was permitted to leave the club and returned home to Carolina, taking up a place on the roster of his first club, Carolina Dynamo, in the USL Premier Development League.

Hungary

Caugherty has signed a contract to play for Tatabánya making his debut for the club against Újpest on September 15, 2007.

External links

* [http://www.tatabanyafc.hu Official Tatabayna FC Website]
* [http://www.yanks-abroad.com/content.php?mode=search&s=Ryan%20Caugherty Ryan Caugherty articles on Yanks Abroad]
* [http://wakeforestsports.cstv.com/sports/m-soccer/mtt/caugherty_ryan00.html Wake Forest University Profile]