Chad Randall Barrett (born April 30, 1985) is an American former professional

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player who played as a forward.

Career

College

Born in

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, Barrett played two seasons of

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and led the team in assists his second year. He chose to forgo the rest of his college career, signing a

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contract with MLS. He attended Southridge HS and played Club Soccer for Westside Metros in Beaverton Oregon.

Professional

Chicago Fire drafted Barrett with the third overall pick of the

2005 MLS SuperDraft The 2005 MLS SuperDraft, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 14, 2005, was the sixth incarnation of the annual MLS SuperDraft. Expansion club Real Salt Lake had the first pick as the result of a coin toss (fellow newcomers C.D. Chivas USA g ...

, and he quickly established himself as a starter for the Fire during the 2007 season, scoring seven goals. He scored a key goal in the Fire's win at D.C. United in the first round of the playoffs. Barrett is known for his workman-like play. In his three seasons with Chicago, he led the team in goals two years, and was second the other. Not known for a great first touch, his industrious play resulted in eighteen league goals in his time in Chicago where the often more heralded Calen Carr failed to impress. With the Chicago Fire, Barrett won the

2006 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup The 2006 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup ran from June through September, open to all soccer teams in the United States. The Chicago Fire S.C., Chicago Fire won 3–1 over defending-champion Los Angeles Galaxy in the final at Toyota Park (Bridgeview), T ...

On April 12, 2008, Barrett led Chicago Fire over

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1–0 in front of 20,038 fans at the Earthquakes home opener at

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. Barrett tallied the game-winning goal in the ninth minute, while Fire goalkeeper Jon Busch recorded eight saves in his second shutout of the season. He, along with a first-round pick in the

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and allocation money, was traded to

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on July 25, 2008, in exchange for the rights to

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. Barrett signed a 4-year contract extension with Toronto FC on September 1, 2008. On April 28, 2010, Barrett scored his first goal of the 2010 season, the second goal in a 2–0 win over Montreal Impact during the opening game of the 2010 Canadian Championship On May 8, 2010, Barrett added his first league goals of the season, scoring a pair in Toronto's 4–1 win over his former team Chicago Fire. In the

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tie against C.D. Motagua, Barrett scored two goals (one in each leg), helping Toronto F.C. to a 3–2 aggregate win. Barrett was traded to

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on January 13, 2011, in exchange for future considerations. On October 2, 2011, Barrett scored his 40th career goal in a 2–1 over Real Salt Lake. This goal placed Barrett in the top 50 MLS scorers of all time. After a brief trial, Barrett was loaned to Norwegian club

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on July 30, 2012. Los Angeles declined Barrett's contract option for 2013 and he elected to enter the

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. On December 14, 2012, Barrett was selected in stage two of the draft by

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with the number 4 overall pick. He later officially signed a deal with the club on February 11, 2013. On December 18, 2013, Barrett was picked up in the second stage of the 2013 MLS Re-Entry Draft by

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. On March 8, 2014, in the Sounders season opener against Sporting KC, Barrett scored the game-winning goal in stoppage time with the game ending 1–0. On December 28, 2015, Barrett signed with San Jose Earthquakes as a free agent. On January 23, 2017, Barrett signed with Real Salt Lake as a free agent. His option was declined at the end of the 2017 season. He officially announced his retirement as an active player on his

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account on

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, 2018.

International

Barrett has played for various youth United States national teams. He was a key player on the Under-20 team at the 2005 World Youth Championship and was named to the U-23 men's national team for 2008 Olympic qualifying. He made his debut for the United States men's national soccer team on June 22, 2008, coming on as a second-half substitute in a World Cup qualifier against

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Media

Whilst recovering from injury Barrett and teammate David Horst would do live radio shows entitled 'the horse, the bear and the lion' which would be streamed on the RSL Facebook page. He previews and commentates on MLS matches for ESPN700 Sports in Salt Lake.

Honors

Chicago Fire

* U.S. Open Cup (1):

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Toronto FC

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(2):

2009 2009 was designated as the International Year of Astronomy by the United Nations to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Galileo Galilei's first known astronomical studies with a telescope and the publication of Astronomia Nova by Joha ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

LA Galaxy

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(1):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

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(1):

* Western Conference (Playoffs) (1):

Seattle Sounders FC

(1):

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* U.S. Open Cup (1):

References

External links

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