Frank Daniel "Frankie" Hejduk (born August 5, 1974) is an American former
soccer
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player who played as a
wingback and
midfielder
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. At the club level he represented the
Tampa Bay Mutiny
Tampa Bay Mutiny was a professional soccer team based in Tampa, Florida. They were a charter member of Major League Soccer (MLS) and played from 1996 to 2001. They played their home games at Tampa Stadium and then at Raymond James Stadium.
The ...
,
Bayer Leverkusen
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,
St. Gallen
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,
Columbus Crew
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, and the
LA Galaxy
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. A full international between 1996 and 2009, he won 85
caps
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for the
United States national team and represented his nation at the
1998
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Events January
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and
2002
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FIFA World Cups
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. He also represented the United States at the
1996
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and
2000
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Summer Olympics
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.
Hejduk serves as "Brand Ambassador" in the Crew front office.
Early life
Hejduk attended
San Dieguito High School
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where he played on the boys' soccer team. He was also a member of the powerhouse La Jolla
Nomads Soccer Club
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which won the California state youth championship in 1989, 1990 and 1991. After high school, Hejduk attended
UCLA
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. He spent three seasons, 1992 to 1994, as a defender on the
UCLA Bruins
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soccer team. While a defender, he was the second leading scorer in 1994 with six goals. He was also named an NCAA second-team All-American his junior year.
Club career
MLS
In February 1996,
Tampa Bay Mutiny
Tampa Bay Mutiny was a professional soccer team based in Tampa, Florida. They were a charter member of Major League Soccer (MLS) and played from 1996 to 2001. They played their home games at Tampa Stadium and then at Raymond James Stadium.
The ...
drafted Hejduk in the seventh round (67th overall) of the
1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft
The MLS Inaugural Player Draft, held before Major League Soccer
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. Hejduk played in the league's first three seasons. However, commitments to the Olympic team limited him to only eight games as a rookie. In 1997, Hejduk established himself on the Mutiny defense, playing 22 games and registering one goal and six assists. He did much of the same in 1998, registering three goals and one assist with the team over 18 games while missing significant time while playing in the
1998 FIFA World Cup
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.
Europe
Hejduk's performance in the World Cup inspired German
First Division side
Bayer Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, th ...
to purchase his contract from MLS on July 13, 1998. He remained with the Mutiny through the end of the 1998 season then joined Leverkusen in January 1999. After initially struggling at Leverkusen, Hejduk came on strong at the end of the 1998–99 season when the club experienced several critical injuries. He started ten of the last eleven games, helping the team earn a place in the
UEFA Champions League
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. At the beginning of the 1999–2000 season, Leverkusen manager
Christoph Daum
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changed Leverkusen's tactical formation which took Hejduk out of the starting line up. Although Hejduk only appeared in six
Bundesliga
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games for the team in 1999–2000, he played a significant role for the club in their Champions League campaign, appearing in five of Leverkusen's six games and twice being named as Man of the Match. Hejduk's role at Leverkusen continued to dwindle in 2000–01 as he only appeared in three league games for the team and a single Champions League match, spending most of his time with their third division affiliate. In the 2001–02 season, Hejduk's role was even further diminished, as a shoulder injury kept him out of early season action, and he did not receive any playing time following his recovery. It became so bad, that Daum's replacement as manager
Klaus Toppmöller
Klaus Toppmöller (born 12 August 1951) is a German football manager and former professional player.
Playing career
A forward, Toppmöller scored 108 Bundesliga goals for 1. FC Kaiserslautern in 204 matches in the West German top flight. He e ...
stated that Hejduk had no future with Leverkusen. Leverkusen eventually sold Hejduk's contract to Swiss club
FC St. Gallen
Fussballclub St. Gallen 1879, commonly known as St. Gallen, is a Swiss professional football club based in the city of St. Gallen, Canton of St. Gallen. As of the 2022–23 season, the team competes in the Swiss Super League.
History
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, during the 2001–02 season. Hejduk then signed for an additional year at Gallen but made only seven appearances with the first team, losing his spot as the season progressed.
Return to MLS
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Unable to find playing time in Europe, Hejduk returned to the United States and Major League Soccer for the 2003 season, where he was
allocated to the
Columbus Crew
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. Hejduk immediately found a spot as team leader right back for the Crew, and went on to start 23 games for the team that season, assisting on four goals. He played a similar role at right back and right midfield in 2004, starting 19 games and scoring two goals for a club that won the MLS
Supporters Shield
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. On January 25, 2007, the Columbus Crew announced that they had signed Hejduk to a two-year contract extension, keeping him with the Crew through the 2008 MLS season. On November 23, 2008, Hejduk headed home a pass from
Guillermo Barros Schelotto
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Barros Schelotto played 16 years of his professional career in the Argentine Primera Divis ...
to provide the final goal in a 3–1 victory securing the Crew's first
MLS Cup
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.
After the
2010 MLS season Columbus declined Hejduk's contract option and Hejduk elected to participate in the
2010 MLS Re-Entry Draft
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. On December 15, 2010, Hejduk was selected by
Sporting Kansas City
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in Stage 2 of the Re-Entry draft, and subsequently traded to the
Los Angeles Galaxy
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later the same day. He played six first-team games and another five games with the Galaxy reserve team. At season's end, Los Angeles declined his 2012 contract option and Hejduk entered the
2011 MLS Re-Entry Draft. After no other club selected him, Los Angeles exercised its option to retain his MLS rights. However, on January 30, 2012, the club announced that it was unable to come to terms with Hejduk and that he would not play for the Galaxy in 2012.
Rather than having microfracture surgery on his ankle and additional surgery to repair a broken wrist, Hejduk officially announced his retirement from professional soccer on April 19, 2012, opting to accept a position in the Crew front office.
International career
Hejduk was a frequent starter for the U.S. Men's National Team, and is the only individual to have represented the U.S. in the 1996 and 2000
Summer Olympic Games
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and the 1998 and 2002
FIFA World Cup
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Finals tournaments.
In 1990, Hejduk spent time on the U.S. U-17 national team, but was not selected for
1991 U-17 World Cup. Upon leaving UCLA, Hejduk trained full-time with the
U.S. U-23 as it prepared for the upcoming
1996 Summer Olympics
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. This time, Hejduk made the
U.S. Olympic roster, playing all three games as the U.S. went 1–1–1 and failed to make the second round. Following the Olympics, Hejduk joined his professional club and made his debut with the senior
U.S. national team.
Hejduk received his first
cap
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for the United States August 30, 1996, against
El Salvador
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. In his first start in December of the same year, he scored a goal against
Guatemala
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in a World Cup Qualifier. Hejduk became a regular on the U.S. team but became known for his lackadaisical "surfer" approach to his game. This attitude persisted until he missed a team flight to China on January 23, 1997, having spent the night with friends and overslept. U.S. coach
Steve Sampson dropped Hejduk from the U.S. roster. Over the next year, Hejduk saw precisely six minutes on the field with the U.S., in an August 7, 1997, loss to
Ecuador
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. During that year, he married his longtime girlfriend, Kim Walters, and after considerable thought decided to commit himself to a professional soccer career.
Beginning with a February 1, 1998, victory over
Cuba
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in the
1998 Gold Cup, Hejduk again became a regular with the national team. Since then he has remained a mainstay. Following the Gold Cup, Hejduk was named to the U.S. roster for the World Cup, where he started two of the United States' three matches. Although Hejduk's role with the United States waned during his years with Leverkusen, he seized an opportunity to regain his starting role at the
2002 Gold Cup when he took over the left back position vacated by
David Regis
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. Hejduk held onto it to play an important role for the United States in the
2002 World Cup
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, starting four games from a left back position. On May 2, 2006, Hejduk was named to his third successive U.S. World Cup roster for the tournament in Germany, but was replaced after suffering a torn
ACL.
In 2007, he returned to the USMNT roster after playing for the Crew in the spring, and started his first game for the U.S. in June's
2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup
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tournament. In that tourney's semifinal vs. Canada (June 21), Frankie made the first goal of the match in a U.S.'s 2–1 win, a spectacular long shot that earned him the match's "Play of the Game" honor from
Fox Soccer Channel
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. He started the first qualifier for the 2010 World Cup held in his home stadium,
Columbus Crew Stadium
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on February 11, 2009, a 2–0 victory against Mexico. After the game, Hejduk was involved in an altercation with Mexican assistant coach Francisco "Paco" Javier Ramírez, who slapped Hejduk in the tunnels as both teams headed to the locker room. Hejduk did not retaliate, and Ramirez was not reprimanded nor apologized. On March 28, 2009, Hejduk was influential in both U.S. goals in the final 15 minutes to earn the U.S. a 2–2 draw at El Salvador. His header in the 87th minute earned the U.S. a crucial point.
Frankie Hejduk was not named to the U.S. National Team's preliminary
2010 FIFA World Cup
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roster, when it was released on May 11, 2010.
International goals
:''Scores and results list the United States' goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Hejduk goal.''
Post-playing career
On April 19, 2012, Hejduk rejoined the Crew organization, agreeing to terms to become the club's "Brand Ambassador", a job focused on community outreach and marketing of the team.
Personal life
Frankie's Croatian surname, "Hejduk", is a derivation of the term
Hajduk
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. He has been married to Elissa Zurcher since 2005 and has four children; three sons, Frankie Nesta (born February 25, 1998), Coasten Daniel (born January 2, 2008) and Hendrix (born 2015) and one daughter, Kali (born 2010). His favorite soccer team is
Boca Juniors
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and his favorite player was
Claudio Caniggia
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. He is also a fan of the
Los Angeles Chargers
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. Hejduk is a huge fan of Jamaican
reggae
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legend
Bob Marley
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and celebrates his goals by replicating the hypnotic dances Marley did during his performances.
Hejduk gained some small notoriety in October 2008 after he showed up at a Crew supporters tailgate for a game against the LA Galaxy while serving a one-game suspension.
With his duty on the U.S. Soccer team, he became one of first former Yugoslav soccer players to play for the United States, following with
Serbian American
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Preki
Predrag Radosavljević ( sr-Cyrl, Предраг Радосављевић; born June 24, 1963), better known by the nickname Preki (), is a Serbian-American former soccer player and coach. He is currently an assistant coach with Seattle Sounde ...
.
Hejduk is an avid surfer and was a member of San Dieguito High School's state and national championship surfing team. He was a 1988 National Junior High School Surfing Champion and qualified for the 1989 U.S. Amateur Surfing Team by finishing tenth overall.
Honors
Tampa Bay Mutiny
*
Major League Soccer
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Supporters' Shield
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:
1996
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Bayer Leverkusen
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Bundesliga
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runner-up:
1998–99,
1999–2000,
2001–02
*
DFB-Pokal
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runner-up:
2001–02
*
UEFA Champions League
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runner-up:
2001–02
Columbus Crew
*
MLS Cup
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:
2008
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*
Major League Soccer
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Supporters' Shield
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:
2004
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Events January
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,
2008
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,
2009
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*
Major League Soccer
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Eastern Conference Championship:
2008
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*
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup
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runner-up:
2010
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Los Angeles Galaxy
*
MLS Cup
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:
2011
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*
Major League Soccer
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Supporters' Shield
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:
2011
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*
Major League Soccer
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Western Conference Championship:
2011
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United States
*
CONCACAF Gold Cup
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:
2002
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,
2005
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2007
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Individual
*
CONCACAF Gold Cup
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All-Tournament team:
2007
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References
External links
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San Diego MLS Project*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hejduk, Frankie
1974 births
Living people
Soccer players from San Diego
American soccer players
American expatriate soccer players
American expatriate soccer players in Germany
American expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland
Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
UCLA Bruins men's soccer players
Tampa Bay Mutiny players
Bayer 04 Leverkusen players
Bayer 04 Leverkusen II players
FC St. Gallen players
Columbus Crew players
LA Galaxy players
Bundesliga players
Swiss Super League players
Major League Soccer players
Major League Soccer All-Stars
United States men's international soccer players
Olympic soccer players of the United States
CONCACAF Gold Cup-winning players
1996 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
Footballers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
1998 FIFA World Cup players
1999 FIFA Confederations Cup players
Footballers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
2002 FIFA World Cup players
2002 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2003 FIFA Confederations Cup players
2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup players
American people of Croatian descent
United States men's under-23 international soccer players
Association football fullbacks
Association football midfielders