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Darlington Nagbe Personal information Full name Darlington Nagbe Date of birth July 19, 1990 Place of birth Monrovia, Liberia Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) Playing position Attacking Midfielder, Winger Club information Current club Portland Timbers Number 6 Youth career 2008–2010 Akron Zips Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 2007–2010 Cleveland Internationals 18 (7) 2011– Portland Timbers 28 (2) * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 17, 2011.
† Appearances (Goals).Darlington Nagbe (born July 19, 1990 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian footballer currently playing for the Portland Timbers in Major League Soccer.
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Career
College and Amateur
Born in Liberia,[1] the Nagbe family lived in France, Greece and Switzerland before settling in the Cleveland, Ohio area in 2001.
Nagbe grew up in Lakewood, Ohio, where he attended Lakewood High School and then St. Edward High School, scoring 18 goals and adding 10 assists as a senior. He was a member of the Region II ODP team, was a 2007 adidas ESP All-Star and was member of the Ohio North ODP team, as well as winning four Ohio state club titles with the Cleveland Internationals.
Nagbe played college soccer at the University of Akron, scoring 19 goals and contributing 19 assists in 73 matches during three collegiate seasons. He was a Soccer America All-Freshman first team honoree, and was named the All-MAC Newcomer of the Year in as a freshman in 2008. As a sophomore in 2009 Nagbe was named to the NSCAA All-America Second Team, the Soccer America MVP Second Team, the Top Drawer Soccer Team of the Season Second Team, the All-Great Lakes Region First Team and the All-Mid-American Conference First Team. In 2010 Nagbe helped the Akron Zips to their first ever national championship, a 1-0 regulation win in the College Cup Final against Louisville; he was subsequently named to the NSCAA All-America First Team, the All-MAC First Team, the College Cup All-Tournament Team, and was honored with the MAC Hermann Trophy as the 2010 College Soccer Player of the Year.[2] His coach at Akron was Caleb Porter, who played four games for San Jose in 1999.
During his college years Nagbe also played four seasons with the Cleveland Internationals in the USL Premier Development League, scoring 7 goals in 18 league appearances.[3][4][5][6]
Professional
Nagbe was selected by Portland Timbers in the first round (2nd overall) of the 2011 MLS SuperDraft.[7][8] After missing the first couple of weeks of the season due to injury, Nagbe made his professional debut on April 2, 2011 in a 1-1 tie with New England Revolution.[9] Nagbe scored his first goal with a brilliant volley (which was eventually named the 2011 MLS goal of the year) in a 2-1 loss to Sporting Kansas City on July 2, 2011.[10][11]
Personal
Darlington is the son of Joe Nagbe, the former captain of the Liberian national team. He is currently a Liberian citizen.
Honors
Club
- NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship (1): 2010
Individual
See also
References
- ^ St. Edward grad Darlington Nagbe will pass as he leads Akron men's soccer team into national semis
- ^ Darlington Nagbe wins Hermann Trophy
- ^ 2007 Cleveland Internationals stats
- ^ 2008 Cleveland Internationals stats
- ^ 2009 Cleveland Internationals stats
- ^ 2010 Cleveland Internationals stats
- ^ http://www.mlssoccer.com/superdraft-tracker
- ^ http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/nagbe-ready-prove-himself-portland
- ^ Timbers tie Revs to earn first ever MLS point
- ^ [1]
- ^ [2]
External links
Portland Timbers – current squad 1 Perkins · 2 Goldthwaite · 4 Chabala · 5 Brunner · 6 Nagbe · 7 Zizzo · 8 Lowry · 9 Dike · 10 Johnson · 11 Alhassan · 12 Horst · 13 Jewsbury · 14 Marcelin · 15 Perlaza · 17 Alexander · 19 López · 20 Gleeson · 21 Chará · 22 Wallace · 24 Brown · 25 Purdy · 26 Umony · 27 Taylor · 28 Braun · 30 Palmer · 31 Thompson · 33 Cooper · 98 Danso ·
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Categories:- 1990 births
- Living people
- Liberian footballers
- Liberian expatriate footballers
- Akron Zips men's soccer players
- Cleveland Internationals players
- Portland Timbers (MLS) players
- USL Premier Development League players
- Expatriate soccer players in the United States
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