Jarrod Brian Stockley Smith (born 20 July 1984) is a New Zealand professional

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who currently plays for

Team Wellington Team Wellington Football Club was a New Zealand semi-professional football club based in the suburb of Miramar in Wellington, New Zealand. They competed in the ISPS Handa Premiership. Team Wellington had traditionally been one of the most succe ...

Career

College

Smith moved to the

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after he was recruited by and played three seasons for former

West Virginia University West Virginia University (WVU) is a public land-grant research university with its main campus in Morgantown, West Virginia. Its other campuses are those of the West Virginia University Institute of Technology in Beckley, Potomac State College ...

head coach Michael Seabolt and played for the

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in the 2005 and 2006

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tournaments. He played as a striker and as a winger for WVU. In four seasons with the Mountaineers, Smith scored 32 goals in 74 matches. As a senior in 2006, he scored a career high 14 goals in only 16 matches under first-year coach

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Professional

On 18 January 2007, Smith was selected by

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with the first pick in the

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, but signed for

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in August 2007. In March 2008 the player was included on

's website as an active member of the roster. He made MLS debut for Toronto playing against

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on 13 April 2008, and scored his team's second goal en route to a 3–2 victory. On 26 November of that year, Smith was selected by

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in the fourth round of the

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. On 1 July, Smith made his debut with the Sounders in a

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match against USL side

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. On 17 July, he was released without making a league appearance for the club. Smith joined

Hawke's Bay United Hawke's Bay United was a professional Association football club based in Napier, New Zealand. HB United most recently played in the ISPS Handa Premiership – a semi-professional franchise based league, which ran independently of the winte ...

for 2010-2011

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season. Smith signed with Swedish

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club

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at the beginning of the 2011 season, but due to injury only made one league appearance for the club. He scored his only goals in Sweden in a

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game against

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on 20 April 2011, where he scored two goals. Smith was released at the end of the season.

International

Smith played on New Zealand's

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and under-23 teams, and was part of the New Zealand U-23 side narrowly beaten to Oceania's spot at

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. Jarrod Smith made his debut for the

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(''All Whites'') against

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, on 23 February 2006. He was also a member of New Zealand's 2006 summer tour of Europe. He came off the bench in games against

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and

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, before starting against

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. In the final game, against

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, Smith entered the game as a substitute in the 60th minute. Smith was included in the

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. As of December 2011 Smith had made 12 appearances in official full internationals without scoring.

Statistics

Personal

Born in

Havelock North Havelock North ( mi, Te Hemo-a-Te Atonga) is a town in the Hawke's Bay region of the North Island of New Zealand, situated less than 2 km south-east of the city of Hastings. It was a borough for many years until the 1989 reorganisation of local ...

, Smith is the son of former New Zealand

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er and broadcast commentator

Ian Smith Ian Douglas Smith (8 April 1919 – 20 November 2007) was a Rhodesian politician, farmer, and fighter pilot who served as Prime Minister of Rhodesia (known as Southern Rhodesia until October 1964 and now known as Zimbabwe) from 1964 to ...

and his wife Louise Smith. He attended

with a major in sports management.

References

External links

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West Virginia Mountaineers athletics profile
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Moving up the Mountain

2007/2008 season stats
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