Famous American football players

In world football, those who performed in the most prestigious European leagues have always been considered the best football players. This list includes such championships as Italian (Serie A), Spanish (La Liga), English (APL), German (Bundesliga), French (League 1), Portuguese (League of Portugal) and Dutch (Eradivisia). Of course, this does not mean that the best players of some championship are representatives of his nationality. In world football, there are transfer transfers every season. The famous clubs are laying out huge money for the acquisition of a talented player who can perform in a completely different league.

We all know that the American Football League (MLS) does not stand alongside the leagues listed above. Unfortunately, in the US standard football is not as popular as we would like. In view of this, the MLS League is slightly inferior in terms of excellence and quality to the European leagues. However, some American football players are sometimes beaten to a new professional level. Talented footballers who have proven themselves in the MLS League often generate interest from European grandees. In this article we will look at the famous American footballers who conquered the highest European football leagues.

"Clint" Dempsey and his football history

Clinton Drew Dempsey is an American midfielder and forward, now playing for the Seattle Sounders team. From 2007 to 2013 he played in the English Premier League - first in Fulham (from 2007 to 2012), and then in Tottenham Hotspur (2012-2013). Wedge Dempsey is one of the best players in US history. All football players of American football sometimes recognize this. After all, the services of Dempsey are forced to show due respect to him. Wedge Dempsey is the first player of the United States national team who scored in three world championships. Also this talented guy is considered the second scorer of his team (after Landon Donovan).

By the way, Clinton has all chances to take the first line, because he still stands for the US team, in contrast to his rival Donovan. On this merit and Dempsey records do not end - this player is in the top five of the US team in the number of matches played (again, there are all chances to take a higher place, because the player is still a player of his national team).

Biography of Clinton Dempsey

Born March 9 in 1983 in the city of Nakodoches, Texas (USA). From his history it is known that the guy grew up in a very poor family. Poverty and hard life circumstances led to the fact that the family could not accumulate enough money to buy a house, so you had to live in a trailer. This house on wheels was located in one of the parks of the city of Nakodoches, where besides the Dempsey family there were still a lot of people. Boring everyday life embellished only football, which Clinton taught local Mexican children. As a child, Dempsey always wanted to be like all the famous American football players. His list of idols included such names as Casey Keller, George Pope, Hugo Perez and many others.

One day, on a regular trip to Dallas, the young Clint convinced his parents to turn a couple of miles in the opposite direction in order to get to the shows in one youth football club. The boy justified his request, and he was accepted into the club. Soon the parents had a serious choice, their eldest daughter Jennifer showed good results in tennis. In view of this, Clinton had to forget about football for a while because of the banal shortage of parental money. When "Clint" turned 12 years old, the family suffered a terrible tragedy - Sister Jennifer died because of a serious illness with blood vessels. Young Dempsey vowed on her grave that he would dedicate all his scored goals to her. In 2001, Clinton Dempsey was admitted to the Furman Paladis University, where he played in the student football league until 2003 and was the undisputed leader.

The history of the football career Dempsey

In 2004, at the annual draft of the League of MLS Clint Dempsey came to the command "New Ingleagd Revolution." Together with this, he was recognized as the best debutant of the season. Showing the character and high football professionalism, in the same year he was invited to the US team. In 2005, he was the best scorer in the tournament "CONCACAF" (scored a goal against the teams such as Spain, Brazil and Egypt). In 2006 he received the award of the best player of the national team. In 2007, he became the best player of the year in the English Premier League (for Fulham). In 2014 he became the author of the fifth fastest goal in the world championships - scored a goal against Ghana at the 29th second.

The best football player of the USA in all history - Landon Donovan

Landon Timothy Donovan is an attacking midfielder and striker. Known for his performances for such clubs as "Bayer 04" (Germany), "Los Angeles Galaxy" (USA), "Everton" (England). Donovan tops the list of the best American players in the history of the United States. And this title he wears by right, because he is the best scorer of his national team (57 goals for the US team). In addition, speaking for "Los Angeles Galaxy" Landon Donovan is the best scorer and raspasovschikom American League MLS in its entire history of existence (144 goals and 136 assists).

Biography of Landon Donovan

Born March 4 in 1984 in Ontario, California (USA). Born in a good and noble family - Donna Kenny-Cash's mother was a primary school teacher at school, and father Tim Donovan was a hockey player in a semi-professional Canadian league. At the age of six, he enrolled in the football section of the Cal Heath School, where he scored seven goals in the first training match. In 1999, he studied at the IMG Football Academy in Florida. Here he taught various disciplines and professionally engaged in football. Here, with him, there was an amazing story, during which the young football player nearly lost his leg. After another school day, Landon went to his favorite golf course, in order to relax after a hard workout. Somehow a miracle on the field was a crocodile, who attacked Donovan. Fortunately, everything worked out, and Landon did not suffer.

Sports achievements of Landon Donovan named "Captain America"

In the first season for "Los Angeles Galaxy" Donovan scored fourteen goals scored (and 8 assists) and became the second scorer in the League of MLS. The debut season of the player so amazed the football community that he was included in the symbolic team of all times League MLS. In the following season, "Captain America" continued to demonstrate a quality game, scoring 12 goals and giving the same 8 assists. With the arrival of David Beckham at Los Angeles Galaxy, Landon Donovan abandoned his captain's armband in favor of the world football star. In 2007, he became the best scorer of the North American League.

In 2010 he was rented by the English club Everton. Here Donovan quickly adapted and began to prove his competence on the field. Not to say that Landon scored a lot in the Premier League, but his game was considered the best in the club in a tactical plan. Thanks to his vision of the field and qualitative expansion, Landon has more than once been recognized as the best player of the month in the English Premier League. At the end of the lease, Everton undoubtedly wanted to extend the agreement with the player, but Galaxy declined the offer.

Legendary American goalkeeper Tim Howard

Timothy Matthew Howard - American goalkeeper, who for 11 years defended the gates of the English "Everton", where he became a real legend. Since the end of 2016 to this day, Tim is in favor of the Colorado Rapids Club (USA). From the achievements of the player can be identified the following: the owner of the Super Bowl of England in 2003, the FA Cup 2004, the League Cup 2006, the gold medalist of the championship "CONCACAF 2007". Also, Tim Howard has countless personal awards.

Biography of Tim Howard

Born March 6 in 1970 in the city of North Brunswick, New Jersey, USA. His father was African American, and his mother was Hungarian. When Tim was three years old, his parents divorced, and the boy stayed with his mother. Nevertheless, the father did not forget about his sons (Howard has Chris's brother) and provided them with everything material. One day, my father insisted that the boys begin to play sports, and bought them a lot of sports equipment. The father did it to understand what kind of sport the guys are attracted to. Tim chose basketball and football. Also from his childhood, it is known that in the sixth grade, Tim was given a shocking diagnosis - Tourette's syndrome.

Club career and achievements of Tim Howard

Howard began his football career in the MetroStars team (USA). Here he lost about 5 years and was the undisputed leader of the team, defending his goal with dignity. In 2003, Manchester United (England, Premier League) made a proposal for the transfer of Tim Howard. As a result, the young goalkeeper agreed and signed a four-year contract, the amount of which was $ 4 million. In "Manchester" Howard almost immediately replaced the legendary French goalkeeper Fabien Barthez. In 2003, the "Red Devils" became the owners of the Super Bowl of England. The final match against the London "Arsenal" reached the stage of post-match penalty, where Tim Howard repelled the decisive blow and gave his team a victory.

In 2006, Howard was leased to Everton. The fact is that in the "Manchester" came a new goalkeeper - Edwin van Der Sar, who took the place at the base. The season in "Everton" was very successful, both for the team and for Tim himself. Soon the team bought a talented goalkeeper for $ 3 million, and Howard became a full-fledged player of Everton. Here in the 2008/2009 season he became the new club record holder - the largest number of dry matches in Everton history.

In the season of the English Premier League in 2011/2012, Tim Howard scored his first goal in his career. In a match against "Bolton" Tim the strongest blow knocked the ball from his own penalty area, that he flew the goalkeeper of the opposite team. This goal was the best in the season of Premier League 2011/2012. Thanks to this Howard became the fourth goalkeeper of the Premier League, who managed to score from the game (statistics have been dating since 1992). By the way, this goal Tim did not celebrate due to solidarity with the goalkeeper of "Bolton", because he called his goal scored "cruel".

American football players in the Premier League

Josie Altidore is an attacker who played for Hull City and Sunderland. Now stands for the Canadian club "Toronto" and the national team of the United States. Josie is the best football player of the United States in the nomination "Footballer of the Year" in 2013 and 2016. In 2008, he signed a contract with the Spanish club Villarreal, the amount of which became the record in the history of transfers of American football players - 10 million euros. In 2011, he signed a contract with the Dutch club "AZ Alkmaar", which achieved incredible heights - became the owner of the Dutch Cup in the season 2012/2013 and the club's top scorer (38 goals in 68 games).

Matthew "Matt" Miazza is the first American football player in Chelsea. Matthew was born on July 19 in 1995 (Clifton, New Jersey, USA). A young football player plays as a defender, is a backup player. From 2015 to present, he is in favor of the national football team of the United States. In the English club moved in January 2016 for $ 5 million (contract for 4.5 years). In 2016, to receive the practice game was leased to the club "Vitesse" (Holland), where on October 1, scored a goal in the gates of "Groningen".

Bradley Michael is the midfielder who played for Aston Villa in 2011. Now he plays for the Canadian football club Toronto. Bradley won fame after a successful game at two world championships for the US team in 2010 and 2014. Born July 31 in 1987 in the city of Priston, New Jersey (USA). The most famous football community for their performances for such clubs as Borussia Mönchengladbach (Germany, Bundesliga 2008-2011), Chievo (Italy, Serie A, 2011-2012), Roma (Italy, Serie A, 2012-2013 ). Achievements: finalist of the Cup of Italy 2013, gold medalist of the Cup "CONCACAF 2007", footballer of the year in the USA 2015.

List of American football players in Europe

European scouts constantly monitor talents from the MLS League. After all, there is a huge accumulation of talents, the transfer price of which does not exceed 10 million dollars.

Famous American football players perform well in Europe. In support of the written one can cite the example of Christian Pulisic, Mikkel Diskerud, Freddy Adu and many other players. Over the last decade, many talented players have moved from the MLS League to more status championships. Here is an example of American football players in European clubs.

Christian Pulisic

American football player, serving as a midfielder for the Dortmund "Borussia". In 2016, was summoned to the national team of the United States. Christian is the youngest player on our list, he was born in 1998 (September 18). He has high hopes, believing that this is the future pearl of American football. For the Dortmund club Pulisic played more than 30 matches, in which he managed to excel 5 times.

Mikkel Diskerud

An American of Norwegian origin, who played for Ruseborg, Stabæk (Norway) and Ghent (Belgium) as a midfielder. Now he plays for New York City. Over the course of his career he scored more than 20 goals.

Freddy Adu

The famous talented American football player (born June 2, 1989), who changed 7 European clubs. In the career of this striker, you can sing for Benfica (Portugal) and Monaco (France). In these teams, he was a real leader and pounded goals, not knowing the word "stop." Over the course of his career he scored more than 50 goals.

The popularity of football in America is growing

The names of American football players over the past twentieth anniversary are increasingly recognizable. There are a lot of new talents, which immediately attract the attention of renowned clubs from around the world. Together with this, the football population in the US is growing at a fast pace. Perhaps in a dozen years, the US team will claim to win the World Cup, none of this fact does not exclude.