Jarryd Goldberg (born November 13, 1985, in Livingston, New Jersey,) is an American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player.

Career

College

Goldberg grew up in Bernards Township, New Jersey, and attended

Ridge High School Ridge High School is a four-year comprehensive community public high school serving students in ninth through twelfth grades from Bernards Township in Somerset County, New Jersey, United States, operating as the lone secondary school of the ...

in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. He played

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Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

and

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with its original campu ...

. While at college, Goldberg took part in the

2005 Maccabiah Games The 17th Maccabiah Games ( he, המכביה ה-17 ישראל תשס"ה), held in Israel, were an incarnation of the 'Jewish Olympics.' They attracted the largest attendance of any Maccabiah Games, including more than 900 representatives from the Un ...

, winning a silver medal with the US team. He was named to the 2006 ''

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'' Men's Soccer All-America Team.

Professional

Goldberg signed for Miami FC of the

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on April 8, 2006, after impressing the coaching staff during pre-season training. On February 18, 2010, Miami FC announced the re-signing of Goldberg to a new contract for the 2010 season.

Statistics

References

External links

Miami FC biography

1985 births Living people Jewish American soccer players American men's soccer players Men's association football midfielders USL First Division players USSF Division 2 Professional League players Boston College Eagles men's soccer players Boston University Terriers men's soccer players Maccabiah Games medalists in football Maccabiah Games silver medalists for the United States Competitors at the 2005 Maccabiah Games Fort Lauderdale Strikers (2006–2016) players People from Bernards Township, New Jersey Sportspeople from Livingston, New Jersey Soccer players from Essex County, New Jersey Ridge High School alumni Sportspeople from Somerset County, New Jersey 21st-century American Jews Jews from New Jersey {{US-footy-midfielder-stub