Louis Crayton

Football player infobox
playername= Louis Crayton
fullname =


dateofbirth = birth date and age|1977|10|26
cityofbirth = Monrovia
countryofbirth = Liberia
height = height|meters=1.83
currentclub = DC United
clubnumber = 27
position = Goalkeeper
youthyears =
youthclubs =
years = 1995-1997 1997-1998 1998-2000 2000 2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2005 2005-2008 2008-
clubs = Saint Joseph Warriors FC Lucerne Grasshopper-Club Zürich FC Schaffhausen FC Wangen bei Olten SC Young Fellows Juventus FC Zug 94 FC Concordia Basel FC Basel D.C. United
caps(goals) = 33 (0) 04 (0) 03 (0) 13 (0) 06 (0) 15 (0) 13 (4) 44 (0) 12 (0) 08 (0)
nationalyears = 1999-
nationalteam = Liberia
nationalcaps(goals) = 35 (0)
pcupdate = 16 August 2008
ntupdate = 19 September 2006

Louis Crayton (born 26 October 1977 in Monrovia, Liberia) is a Liberian football goalkeeper who currently plays for DC United of MLS. He played for various clubs in Switzerland between 1997 and 2008 and also holds Swiss citizenship.

Football career

He started his career playing for St. Joseph Warriors in Liberia before moving to his first Swiss club, FC Lucerne, in 1997. He went on to spend two seasons at Grasshoppers Zürich between 1998 and 2000 before going on to spend one half-season apiece at FC Schaffhausen and FC Wangen bei Olten in 2000 and 2001. He then moved to Juventus Zürich and spent the entire 2001-02 season with the club before going on to spend the entire 2002-03 season at FC Zug 94. In the summer of 2003, he moved to Concordia Basel and spent two seasons with the club before joining FC Basel in July 2005. However, he spent his entire first season with Basel on the bench as a backup for their first-choice keeper at the time, Pascal Zuberbühler, who played in all of the club's competitive matches that season. Crayton finally made his competitive debut for Basel in July 2006, when he made two appearances in both Swiss Super League and UEFA Cup qualification. He also played one match in the UEFA Cup group stage in November 2006 due to a red-card suspension of the first-choice keeper Franco Costanzo. On August 7, 2008, Basel announced they were allowing him to move to the MLS [ [http://www.fcb.ch/news/show/byItemID//10044/20644/16/7 07.08.2008 | Crayton geht, Almerares kommt!] , FC Basel website, 7 August 2008. de icon] . It was announced on August 15, 2008 that Crayton had signed with D.C. United of MLS. He made his first start against the Chicago Fire August 16 and secured his first MLS shutout in the process.

In 2004, he also made two appearances for Liberia in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualifying.

Honours

Basel
* Swiss Cup: 2007, 2008
* Swiss Super League: 2005, 2008
* Uhren Cup: 2006, 2008
* U.S. Open Cup: 2008

External links

* [http://www.weltfussball.de/spieler_profil.php?id=34897 Profile at Weltfussball.de]
* http://www.football.ch
*http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/scorecard/othernews.asp?articleID=238206

References