Profile Clinton Drew Dempsey

Personal information :

Full name : Clinton Drew Dempsey
Date of birth : March 9, 1983
Place of birth : Nacogdoches, Texas, United States
Height : 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Playing position Winger, Forward
Current club Fulham
Number 23
Youth career
Dallas Texans
2001–2003 Furman Paladins
Senior career
2004–2006 New England Revolution
2007– Fulham
National team‡
2004– United States

Club career

New England Revolution

The New England Revolution chosen Clint Dempsey 8th overall in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft. His rookie season he began 23 of 24 suits scoring seven goals. Dempsey facilitated the Revolution to the Eastern Conference Finals and earned 2004 MLS Rookie of the Year Honors. In 2005 Dempsey scored ten targets and additional 9 contributes in 26 games. He scored the game winning target in the Eastern Conference Final on the way to the MLS Cup Final. The chasing year Dempsey additional eight more targets in 2006 but missed important time in the playoffs due to injury. He came on as a substitute in the MLS Cup Final but the Revolution no where their second straight final this time on penalties.

Fulham

In December 2006, Fulham presented MLS a $4 million transfer payment for Dempsey, thereafter the highest quantity ever presented for an MLS player. The league matched to the transfer; however, Dempsey motionless lacked to receive a labor allow from the United Kingdom Home Office. On January ten, 2007, the Home Office given Dempsey the labor allow, therefore approving him to play in England . On May 5, 2007, Dempsey scored his first and merely target of the 2006–07 season for Fulham afterwards emanating on as a 54th tiny substitute against Liverpool, in a crucial suit which Fulham won 1–0. The target ensured Fulham's lid flight condition for the 2007–08 season. Dempsey was a pivotal fraction of the beginning squad for Fulham during the 2007–08 season. His six targets, all scored in the Premier League, prepared him Fulham's lid scorer in league play and tied for the club lead in all competitions. In May 2008, Dempsey received an automatic contract extension from Fulham that would have retained him at the club through 2010. Dempsey scored his first target in the 2008–09 campaign on October 26, 2008, against Portsmouth. Coming on as a 70th-minute sub, Dempsey volleyed home an Erik Nevland traverse past David James to tie the game at 1–1. On December 28, 2008, Dempsey began in the SW6 Derby against Chelsea and scored both targets for Fulham, one a chest and flick past Petr Čech that placed Fulham forward, and the other an 89th-minute equalizing header off a Simon Davies corner. On April 12, 2009, Dempsey was voted Man of the Match in a 3–1 win across Manchester City at Eastlands, in which he scored pair goals.

2009–10 season

On August 13, 2009, Dempsey gestured a contract extension to remain with Fulham through 2013. On August twenty, he scored his first target in European competition, in the newly shaped Europa League, netting Fulham's second target in a 3–1 win against Amkar Perm in the play-off round. On December thirty, La Gazzetta dello Sport dubbed Dempsey as one of the lid eleven Premier League players of the season. On January 17, 2010, Dempsey suffered a suspected cruciate knee ligament injury in a 2–0 away defeat to Blackburn Rovers. On March 11, Dempsey returned, emanating on in the final tiny of Fulham's loss away to Juventus and thereafter ended 72 minutes of their away loss to Manchester United in the league. On March 18, Dempsey came off the bench against Juventus in their second leg final 16 tie in the Europa League and scored the winner on a lengthy chip shot. The Guardian advised that the target "might become the majority legendary target in Fulham's history". On May 12, Dempsey displaced Bobby Zamora in the 55th tiny of the 2010 UEFA Europa League Final, therefore earning history in becoming the first ever American to emerge in a main European final. In the end, Fulham no where the suit, as Atlético Madrid's Diego Forlán scored in the 116th tiny of extra time, paying Atlético a 2–1 win. His plays during 2009–10 earned him the appointment of Most Valuable Player among Americans in Europe via SoccerOverThere.com, among other sources.

2010–11 season

Dempsey waited a regular starter, one of merely five Americans in the Premier League to do so currently. On September 18, he scored a target against Blackburn to tie the game, and extend Fulham's undefeated streak. On October two, he scored against West Ham United past Robert Green, the same keeper that he had scored against in the World Cup. He thereafter lasted his model via scoring pair targets against Wigan Athletic on October thirty as Fulham flowed out two – 0 winners. On January 22, Dempsey scored another double versus Stoke, placing Fulham temporarily out of relegation contention. Metro reported that Dempsey has been linked to a import sell with Liverpool, stating that Dempsey "has been in excellent model this season."

International career

Dempsey first played for the American national team at the 2003 FIFA World Youth Championship in the United Arab Emirates. He prepared his first arrival with the senior team on November 17, 2004 against Jamaica. He already has 66 caps with the senior team and has listed 19 targets, having deployed himself as a first-choice actor as shortly as healthy. He has regularly queued as a striker due to his scoring threat and aerial skill, but his favourite and more regular role is on the wing. He won the highest person honor in American soccer as shortly as he was dubbed Honda Player of the Year for 2006, defeating Fulham teammates Kasey Keller and Brian McBride in a poll of sportswriters. Dempsey received 237 points in voting via 207 sports journalists to assert the award. On May two, 2006, Dempsey was dubbed to the U.S. roster for the 2006 tournament in Germany. He was the merely American actor to score a target in the tournament[28] with his equalizing target in the Americans' eventual 2–1 loss to Ghana.

In the United States' opportunity 2010 World Cup qualifier, Dempsey listed the fastest target in U.S. qualifying history with a chest ambush and sliding shot 53 seconds into a 8–0 defeat of Barbados. But thereafter, Dempsey worldly a dip in model spearheading several to disbelief his first-choice condition with the national team. However, Dempsey turned his fortunes circle in the 2009 FIFA Confederations Cup. In the final team degree suit against Egypt, Dempsey scored a trademark diving header off a Jonathan Spector traverse, earning the final effect 3–0. This, blended with Brazil's 3–0 victory against Italy in the other team suit that was being played together, placed the U.S. through to the semifinals. In the semi-final suit against Spain, Dempsey scored to placed the USA upward 2–0 to send them to the finals. He was dubbed the Man of the Match for his performance. Dempsey scored in his third straight game in the Confederations Cup Final against Brazil, diverting a indistinguishable traverse from Spector in the 10th tiny to frank the scoring. Following the loss, he was awarded the Bronze Ball as the tournament's 3rd best performer. He ended the World Cup qualifying campaign tied with Landon Donovan as the team's 2nd lid scorer, behind Jozy Altidore, with five targets in thirteen matches. On June 12, 2010, Dempsey became the second American (after Brian McBride) to score in more than one World Cup as shortly as he scored the equalizer target against England in the Americans' first game of the 2010 World Cup afterwards the English goalkeeper Robert Green prepared a main error.