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Homegrown Player Rule (Major League Soccer)
The Homegrown Player Rule is a Major League Soccer program that allows MLS teams to sign local players from their own development academies directly to MLS first team rosters. Before the creation of the rule in 2008, every player entering Major League Soccer would have to be assigned through one of the existing MLS player allocation processes, such as the MLS SuperDraft. MLS roster rules allow a team to sign players to contracts similar to Generation adidas contracts, which do not count against the MLS salary budget and may earn a much higher salary than the league minimum. MLS has since removed this wording from the roster rules. That means homegrown players will not count against the salary budget only if they are registered using supplemental roster slots, but will still count against the salary budget if they are registered using senior roster slots. There is, however, supplementary salary budget made by MLS only for homegrown players that are registered using senior roster sl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Major League Soccer
Major League Soccer (MLS) is a men's professional soccer league sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation, which represents the sport's highest level in the United States. The league comprises 29 teams—26 in the U.S. and 3 in Canada—since the 2023 season. The league is headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. Major League Soccer is the most recent in a series of men's premier professional national soccer leagues established in the United States and Canada. The predecessor of MLS was the North American Soccer League (NASL), which existed from 1968 until 1984. MLS was founded in 1993 as part of the United States' successful bid to host the 1994 FIFA World Cup. The inaugural season took place in 1996 with ten teams. MLS experienced financial and operational struggles in its first few years, losing millions of dollars and folding two teams in 2002. Since then, developments such as the proliferation of soccer-specific stadiums around the league, implementation of the Desi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zack Steffen
Zackary Thomas Steffen (born April 2, 1995) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for EFL Championship club Middlesbrough, on loan from Premier League club Manchester City, and the United States national team. Steffen began his youth career with West Chester United before joining the Philadelphia Union in 2012. In May 2013, Steffen committed to playing college soccer for the Maryland Terrapins. He established himself as the starting goalkeeper, spending two seasons with the Terrapins before joining German club SC Freiburg, being assigned to play with the reserves. In July 2016, Steffen returned to the United States with the Columbus Crew, joining United Soccer League club Pittsburgh Riverhounds on loan the following month. From the next season, Steffen would establish himself as the starting goalkeeper for the Columbus Crew, winning the Goalkeeper of the Year Award in 2018. In December 2018, Steffen agreed to join Premier League club Manchester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlanta United FC
Atlanta United FC, commonly known as Atlanta United, is an American professional soccer club based in Atlanta that competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference. Founded in 2014, Atlanta United began play as an MLS expansion team in 2017, as the twenty-second team in the league. It is the first MLS franchise to be based in Atlanta, and the club plays home games at the Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which they share with the city's National Football League (NFL) franchise, the Atlanta Falcons. Both are owned by Arthur Blank, co-founder of The Home Depot. The club also owns Atlanta United 2, a reserve team that competes in the USL Championship (USLC). Gerardo Martino was appointed as the club's first head coach and guided Atlanta to their first playoff appearance in the team's debut season, before securing the team's first trophy in just their second season by winning MLS Cup 2018. Atlanta has set several league records for highest single-match a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackson Conway
Jackson Conway (born December 3, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a forward for USL Championship club Phoenix Rising on loan from Major League Soccer club Atlanta United. Career Conway played with Atlanta United academy while also appearing for Atlanta's USL Championship affiliate Atlanta United 2 during their inaugural season in 2018. On December 20, 2018, Conway signed his first professional contract with Atlanta United 2. On December 3, 2020, Conway signed a homegrown player deal with Major League Soccer club Atlanta United. Conway made his debut for Atlanta United on December 16, 2020 coming off the bench against Club América in the CONCACAF Champions League, scoring the game winning goal in a 1–0 victory. On July 8, 2021, Conway scored his first Major League Soccer goal, an equalizer in Atlanta's 2–2 draw against Nashville SC. On March 29, 2022, Conway was named USL Championship Player of the Week for Week 3 of the 2022 season. Conw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CF Montréal
CF Montréal is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Montréal, Québec, Canada. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Eastern Conference. Founded in 1992 as the Montreal Impact (french: Impact de Montréal, links=no), the team began play in MLS in 2012 as an expansion team, the league's nineteenth franchise and third Canadian club, leaving the North American Soccer League. The club rebranded as Club de Foot Montréal in 2021; however, amidst continued discontent and pressure from supporters and local media to the rebrand, the club introduced a revised logo for the 2023 season, with the club being known simply as CF Montréal. In 2015, the Impact became the second MLS club, and first Canadian club, to advance to the final of the CONCACAF Champions League losing to Club América. CF Montréal/Montreal Impact have won the Voyageurs Cup, the domestic trophy for professional club soccer in Canada, a total of 11 times. The club plays its home matches at Sap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Campbell (soccer)
George Hampton Campbell (born June 22, 2001) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for Major League Soccer club CF Montréal. Career Born in Chester, Pennsylvania, Campbell played for Nether United as a kid before his family relocated to Atlanta. He began his career with Georgia United before joining the youth academy at Atlanta United. On March 9, 2019, after impressing with the academy, Campbell made his professional debut for Atlanta United 2, the club's reserve side in the USL Championship, against Hartford Athletic. He started as Atlanta United 2 won 2–0. Campbell then scored his first goal for Atlanta United 2 on September 25 against Indy Eleven, scoring the first in a 2–1 victory. On July 9, 2019, Campbell signed a homegrown player deal with the Atlanta United first team, effective starting from the 2020 season. He made his debut for Atlanta United on March 7 against FC Cincinnati, coming on as a 44th minute substitute in a 2–1 v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FC Cosmos Koblenz
FC may refer to: Businesses, organisations, and schools * Fergusson College, a science and arts college in Pune, India * Finncomm Airlines (IATA code) * FranklinCovey company, NYSE stock symbol FC * Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force in Pakistan Science and technology Computing * fc (Unix), computer program that relists commands * FC connector, a type of optical-fiber connector * Flash controller * Family Computer, Japanese version of the Nintendo Entertainment System game console * Fibre Channel, a serial computer bus * Microsoft File Compare program * fc a casefolding feature in perl Vehicles * Fairchild FC, 1920s and 1930s aircraft * Holden FC, a motor vehicle * A second generation Mazda RX-7 car * Fully cellular, a type of container ship Medicine A two-in-one vaccine against the flu and common cold. Other sciences * Female condom (FC1, FC2), a contraceptive * Foot-candle (symbol fc or ft-c), a unit of illumination * Formal charge, a Lewis structure concept in chemistry * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Okonkwo
Patrick Okonkwo (born April 23, 1998) is a Nigerian footballer who currently plays for Cosmos Koblenz in the Rheinlandliga. Early life Okonkwo was born in Lagos, Nigeria and raised by his Aunt and Uncle, before moving to Jamaica and later to the United States where he was adopted by a family in Suwanee, Georgia in 2013. Professional career On June 17, 2017 it was announced that Okonkwo would sign with Major League Soccer side Atlanta United as a Home Grown Player at the beginning of the 2018 season. In August 2017, Okonkwo signed with United Soccer League side Charleston Battery, the USL affiliate of Atlanta United and a club he'd spent time with in 2016, until the end of their 2018 season. While on loan from Atlanta United, Okonkwo scored six goals for the Charleston Battery during the club's 2018 campaign. Okonkwo was waived by Atlanta at the end of their 2019 season. On September 10, 2020, Okonkwo joined USL League One side Chattanooga Red Wolves SC Chattanooga Red ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arminia Bielefeld
DSC Arminia Bielefeld (; full name: ; commonly known as Arminia Bielefeld (), also known as ''Die Arminen'' or ''Die Blauen'' ), or just Arminia (), is a German sports club from Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia. Arminia offers the sports of football, field hockey, figure skating, and cue sports. The club has 12,000 members and the club colours are black, white and blue. Arminia's name derives from the Cheruscan chieftain Arminius, who defeated a Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. The club is most commonly known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the 2. Bundesliga. The team mostly played in the first or second tier of the German football league system, among them 17 seasons in the Bundesliga. Arminia's most successful years were the 1920s, the early 1980s and the middle 2000s. In 1947 and in the 1950s Arminia had sunk down to a team playing in a rather local area in the third tier (later third tiers covered larger areas). Arminia has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Bello
George Oluwaseun Bello (born January 22, 2002) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a left-back for 2. Bundesliga club Arminia Bielefeld and the United States national team. Early years Born in Abuja, Nigeria, Bello moved with his family to Douglasville, Georgia, when he was a year old. During his early career, he played for Southern Soccer Academy, a youth soccer club affiliated with English club Chelsea, and the Alpharetta Ambush, where he played for five years. While playing at Alpharetta Ambush, he played with future Atlanta United academy teammate Zyen Jones. After spending five years with the Alpharetta Ambush, Bello moved to the academy side at Atlanta United FC, a new expansion club for Major League Soccer. His former coach, Tony Annan, now at Atlanta United as their academy director, was the one to reach out to Bello to join his side. In 2017, a couple of months after signing a professional contract with Atlanta United FC, Bello helpe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Khums SC
Al Khums Sports Cultural Social Club ( ar, نادي الخمس الرياضي الثقافي الإجتماعي) is a Libyan football club based in Al Khums which plays in the Libyan Premier League. The club plays its home games at Al Khums Stadium in Alriadya neighbourhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural a .... History At the end of the 1950s, there was an urgent necessity and urgent need for the emergence of culture, sports and the arts in the city of Khoms, a city that had a distinct wealth of ambitious young people who were jealous of their city, and amid the four walls of what was known as "Ghuma's shop". The spark for the beginning of sports activities, especially football, as a football team was made to become legitimate and entitled to participate in sports ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lagos Kunga
Lagos Kunga (born October 20, 1998) is an American soccer player who currently plays for Des Moines Menace in USL League Two. Early life Kunga was born in Angola before his family moved to Russia, where they lived until he was seven years old. They later moved to Clarkston, Georgia in the United States. Professional career At the youth level, Kunga developed at DDYSC in Atlanta and played varsity soccer at The Paideia School. Kunga had initially stated a commitment to play college soccer at Furman University. Atlanta United It was announced on June 17, 2017, that Kunga would sign with Major League Soccer side Atlanta United as a Homegrown Player at the beginning of the 2018 season. On June 28, 2017, Kunga signed with United Soccer League side Charleston Battery, the USL affiliate of Atlanta United, until the end of their 2017 season. He was immediately sent on a short-term loan deal to Atlanta and made an appearance on the same day as a 65th-minute substitute in 3–2 l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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