- Brian Ching
Brian Ching (Chinese: 程拜仁, pinyin: Chéng Bàirén born May 24, 1978 in Haleiwa, Hawaii) is a U.S. soccer player, who currently plays forward for Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. Ching played college soccer at Gonzaga University, where he scored 34 goals and had 23 assists. Between 1998 and 1999, he played for the Spokane Shadow of the USL Premier Development League where he was rookie of the year in 1998.
- Mark Draycott
Mark Draycott (born January 12, 1985 in Swindon, England) is an English soccer player currently playing for Ventura County Fusion in the USL Premier Development League. Mark began his career as a trainee with Swindon Town, where he scored goals at all levels up to and including the reserves before he was released in 2003. He still holds the record for the most goals scored in the FA Youth Cup in one season, breaking the record set by Wayne Rooney, …
- Chris Rolfe
Chris Rolfe (born January 17, 1983 in Kettering, Ohio) is an American soccer striker, who currently plays for Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Rolfe played college soccer at University of Dayton, where he posted some of the best scoring numbers in university's history despite missing large parts of his final two seasons due to injuries. After having played for Chicago Fire Premier in the USL Premier Development League, …
- Brad Guzan
Brad Guzan (born September 9, 1984 in Evergreen Park, Illinois) is an American soccer goalkeeper, who currently plays for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. Guzan played two seasons of college soccer at the University of South Carolina, and was a second-team All-America in his sophomore season. After spending two years with the Chicago Fire Reserves in the USL Premier Development League he chose to forgo the rest of his college years, …
- Herculez Gomez
Herculez Gomez is an Mexican-American soccer player who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Gomez started his professional career in 2000 with Cruz Azul of the Mexican First Division on their second-division squad, and transferred to second-division team Aguilas Blancas de Puebla later that year. The following season, he returned to first-division soccer with Durango. However, playing opportunities were scarce for him there, so he left, …
- Jay Demerit
Jay Michael DeMerit (born 4 December, 1979 in Green Bay, Wisconsin) is an American soccer player, currently playing for Watford in the Championship. He was a three-sport high school athlete in Wisconsin, where he participated in basketball and track in addition to soccer. He attended Bay Port High School and graduated in 1998. DeMerit played NCAA soccer at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he moved from playing forward to defender.
- Bryan Byrne
Bryan Byrne (born August 26, 1982 is a soccer player from Castledermot in Co. Kildare, Ireland currently playing with the New England Revolution in Major League Soccer. Byrne was signed by Kildare County and then-manager Dermot Keely during the 2002-03 season from youth team Castle Villa. He was awarded an athletic scholarship later that season by the University of California, Santa Barbara men's soccer team and moved to the United States.
- Abe Thompson
Abraham Broman Thompson (born January 12, 1982 in Tucson, Arizona) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer. Thompson attended Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School in Virginia and was an excellent student and player there. He played college soccer at the University of Maryland from 2000 to 2005 where he appeared in 79 games scoring 43 goals and adding 26 assists. He was named a Hermann Trophy semifinalist in 2004 and 2005.
- Darryl Roberts
Darryl Roberts (born September 26, 1983 in Saint Joseph) is a football (soccer) player who signed with Sparta Rotterdam on January 31, 2007 until the summer of 2008. Roberts attended Liberty University. He also attended Fatima College at the secondary school level. In his freshman year he was named Soccer America and College Soccer News Freshman All-American, was on the NSCAA South Atlantic All-Region second team honors, …
- Olivier Occean
Olivier Occean is a Canadian soccer player, who currently plays for Lillestrøm S.K. of the Norwegian Tippeligaen. Occean played college soccer at Southern Connecticut State University in the NCAA Division II, from 2001 to 2003. While at the college, Occean was twice named an NCAA All-American. He finished his career with 57 goals, including 21 as a senior, and 22 in 2001. During this time he also played for Vermont Voltage in the USL Premier Development League.
- Brian Plotkin
Brian Plotkin (born August 3, 1984 in Lisle, Illinois) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. He played club soccer for the Chicago Sockers FC from the U12 to U19 levels, and played college soccer for Indiana University from 2002 to 2005, featuring in 90 games and accumulating 21 goals and 34 assists. He was named Big 10 Player of the Year in 2005, First Team All Big Ten three consecutive years from 2003-2005, …
- Nathan Sturgis
Nathan Sturgis (born July 6, 1987) is an American soccer midfielder who currently plays for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Sturgis is capable of playing a variety of positions in MLS and has seen action in defense and midfield. Sturgis played two years of college soccer at Clemson University, and one year with the Ajax Orlando Prospects in the USL Premier Development League.
- Sacha Kljestan
Sacha Kljestan (born September 9, 1985 in Anaheim, California) is an American soccer midfielder, who currently plays for C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. Kljestan played for the Region IV Olympic Development Program team. He then played three years college soccer at Seton Hall University. He was named first team All-American in 2004 and earned third team honors in 2005.
- Joseph Lapira
Joseph Lapira (born August 13, 1986, Lake Charles, Louisiana) is an American-born Irish soccer player who currently plays for the Notre Dame and for Baton Rouge Capitals in the USL Premier Development League. In 2006 he was the winner of the Hermann Trophy, awarded to the top collegiate player of the year, after scoring 22 goals for Notre Dame. He qualifies for the Republic of Ireland by virtue of his Irish mother, …
- Ryan Johnson
Ryan Johnson (born November 26, 1984 in Kingston, Jamaica) is a Jamaican football (soccer) player, who last played midfielder for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Johnson played college soccer at Oregon State University from 2002 to 2005, where he scored 18 goals and assisted on 30 while appearing in 76 matches. He also spent two seasons in the USL Premier Development League, playing for Cape Cod Crusaders and Boulder Rapids Reserve.
- Kamani Hill
Kamani Helekunihi Hill (born December 28, 1985 in Berkeley, California) is an American professional soccer player. He currently plays for VfL Wolfsburg of the German Bundesliga. Hill was born in Berkeley, California to a Trinidadian father and an American mother of Hawaiian origin. He grew up playing in various Bay Area youth leagues and attended Berkeley High School, where he was a star forward on their soccer team.
- Matt Taylor
Matt Taylor (born October 17, 1981 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American soccer player, who currently plays striker for the C.D. Chivas USA of Major League Soccer. Taylor played college soccer at UCLA from 2000 to 2003. Taylor was mostly a substitute his first year, but earned a larger role as a sophomore, finishing the season with seven goals and two assists. As a junior he bettered that, registering 12 goals and eight assists, …
- Justin Moose
Justin Moose (born November 23, 1983) is an American soccer midfielder for D.C. United in Major League Soccer. He played college soccer at Wake Forest University from 2002 to 2005. He was a NSCAA First Team All-American in 2004 and 2005. During his last two years at Wake Forest he played in the USL Premier Development League with the Carolina Dynamo, earning Rookie of the Year honors in 2004. He was selected in the first round, 7th overall, …
- Robbie Rogers
Robbie Rogers (born 12 May 1987 in Rancho Palos Verdes, California) is a American soccer player who currently plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Rogers began his career with Orange County Blue Star in the USL Premier Development League. After one year at the University of Maryland, he gave up his final three years of collegiate eligibility to sign his first professional contract with SC Heerenveen in the Dutch Eredivisie in the Netherlands.
- Aaron Pitchkolan
Aaron Pitchkolan (born March 14, 1983 in Aurora, Colorado) is an American soccer midfielder who currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer. Pitchkolan played college soccer from 2001-04 at University of Tampa and then West Virginia University, and played in the USL Premier Development League for Boulder Rapids Reserve, but was bypassed in the 2005 MLS SuperDraft. Instead, he was taken by Dallas in the second round of the Supplemental Draft.
- Stu Riddle
Stu Riddle (born 23 May 1976 in Luton, England) is a New Zealand soccer player. In 2006 he became the first New Zealander to coach in the United Soccer Leagues when he accepted a player-coaching job with Kalamazoo Kingdom in the USL Premier Development League, United States elite development league.
- Joseph Ngwenya
Joseph Ngwenya (born March 30, 1981 in Plumtree, Zimbabwe) is a Zimbabwean soccer player who currently plays forward for the Houston Dynamo of Major League Soccer. Ngwenya was drafted third overall by the Los Angeles Galaxy in the 2004 MLS SuperDraft out of Coastal Carolina University, where he led the NCAA in scoring with 21 goals and 14 assists and was named a First Team All-American in 2003.
- Mehdi Ballouchy
Mehdi Ballouchy (born April 6, 1983 in Casablanca) is a Moroccan football (soccer) midfielder, who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Ballouchy moved to the United States in 2000 and played a year of college soccer at Creighton and two at Santa Clara, where he was named first team All-American in 2005. He then signed a Generation adidas contract with MLS. Ballouchy was taken second overall by Real Salt Lake at the 2006 MLS SuperDraft.
- Kei Kamara
Kei Kamara (born September 1, 1984 in Kenema, Sierra Leone) is a soccer striker who currently plays for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. Kamara played college soccer at the Cal State Dominguez Hills. In his senior season, he was named third-team All-American. After spending two seasons with Orange County Blue Star in the USL Premier Development League, Kamara was then taken by Columbus ninth overall at the 2006 MLS SuperDraft.
- Gonzalo Segares
Gonzalo Segares is a Costa Rican football (soccer) defender, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Segares started in his country playing at Deportivo Saprissa's minor league system, before being awarded with a scholarship to play college soccer at Virginia Commonwealth University from 2001 to 2004, where he was a strong player from his debut, starting all 83 games he played in his four seasons.
- Stephen Armstrong
Stephen Armstrong (born July 23, 1976 in Birkenhead, England) is an English/South African (dual citizenship) soccer forward/midfielder, who currently plays for the Charleston Battery in the USL First Division and the Chicago Storm in the Major Indoor Soccer League. Born in England and raised in Cape Town, South Africa after the age of 4, Armstrong came to the US to attend Butler University. In four seasons (1996-99) with the Bulldogs, he made All-American, …
- Drew Moor
Drew Moor (born January 15, 1984 in Dallas, Texas) is an American soccer defender, who currently plays for FC Dallas of Major League Soccer. Drew Moor attended the Episcopal School of Dallas. Moor played college soccer for Furman University in 2002, before transferring to Indiana University, where he played for two seasons. He started every game during his college career and helped the Hoosiers to back-to-back National Championships.
- Charlie Davies
Charlie Davies (born 25 June 1986 in Manchester, New Hampshire, USA) is a football (soccer) striker who currently plays in the Swedish Allsvenskan for Hammarby IF in Stockholm. He was a finalist for the 2006 Hermann Award, the college soccer equivalent of the Heisman Trophy, after his junior season at Boston College. During his college years he also played with Westchester Flames of the USL Premier Development League.
- Jack Stewart
Jack Stewart (born May 29, 1983) is an American soccer defender, who currently plays for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Stewart played college soccer at the University of Notre Dame, and was named All-Big East his junior and senior seasons. After spending a season with the Indiana Invaders in the USL Premier Development League, the Chicago Fire drafted him with the tenth overall pick of the 2005 MLS SuperDraft, …
- Dasan Robinson
Dasan Robinson (born 6 June 1984 in Evanston, Illinois) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Robinson grew up in suburban Cleveland and graduated from Elyria High School. He played college soccer at the University of Dayton for four years, where he finished with 6 goals and 13 assists in 68 matches, and spent two seasons with Chicago Fire Premier in the USL Premier Development League.
- Tony Donatelli
Tony Donatelli (born June 7, 1984 in Glenside, Pennsylvania, United States) is an American soccer player, who currently plays as a central midfielder for the Vancouver Whitecaps of the USL First Division and the Philadelphia Kixx of the Major Indoor Soccer League. He previously had played two seasons, 2004-2005, with the Ocean City Barons of the USL Premier Development League.
- Daniel Woolard
Daniel Woolard (born May 22, 1984 in Bedford, Texas) is an American soccer player who currently plays defender for the Chicago Fire of Major League Soccer. Woolard played collegiate soccer at Midwestern State University and spent two seasons with the USL Premier Development League's DFW Tornados. He was drafted in the fourth round, 47th overall, by the Chicago Fire in the 2007 MLS Supplemental Draft.
- Sean Franklin
Sean Franklin is an American soccer player currently playing for Cal State Northridge, and with the San Fernando Valley Quakes in the USL Premier Development League. Sean was a three-time letterwinner at Highland High School in Palmdale, CA, where he was coached by Danny Young. Sean was named the Golden League’s Most Valuable Player as a senior, and also earned all-area first-team honors in 2003 after helping the Bulldogs to a Golden League crown in 2003.
- Jacob Peterson
Jacob Peterson (born January 27, 1986 in Portage, Michigan) is an American soccer player, who currently plays for the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. Peterson played college soccer at Indiana University for three years from 2003 to 2005 where he scored 30 goals in 71 appearances. He also spent two seasons in the USL Premier Development League, playing for Michigan Bucks in 2004 and Kalamazoo Kingdom in 2005. Played youth soccer for powerhouse Michigan Wolves.
- Randi Patterson
Randi Patterson (born April 16, 1985 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is an American soccer forward for Red Bull New York of Major League Soccer. Red Bull selected Patterson with its first round pick in the 2007 MLS Supplemental Draft in January 2007. Patterson spent four seasons at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he was a two-time Southern Conference Player of the Year and National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-American selection.
- Danny O'Rourke
Danny O'Rourke (born May 31, 1983 in Columbus, Ohio) is an American defensive midfielder, who currently plays soccer for the Columbus Crew of Major League Soccer. O'Rourke played high school soccer at Worthington Kilbourne High School. He was captain during the 2000 season, during which they won the state championship. Named Ohio Capital Conference player of the year, All-Ohio Capital Conference First Team, All-District, And All-State.
- Kenny Cutler
Kenny Cutler (born March 8, 1982 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American soccer defensive midfielder, who currently plays for Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer. Cutler played college soccer at Clemson University, and for Greenville Lions in the USL Premier Development League, but was not drafted by a MLS team. He was signed by Salt Lake and his ex-coach at Bradenton Academy, John Ellinger, to a developmental contract prior to the 2005 season.
- Mike Zaher
Mike Zaher (born September 24, 1985) is an American soccer player currently playing for UCLA, and with the San Fernando Valley Quakes in the USL Premier Development League. Born in Arizona but raised in Las Vegas, NV, Zaher led his Bishop Gorman High School team to the Nevada high school state championship in 2002; he scored 34 goals as a senior, 25 as a junior, 13 as a sophomore and six as a freshman for a total of 78 career goals.
- Gavin Glinton
Gavin Glinton (born March 1 1979 in Grand Turk, Turks & Caicos Islands) is a Turks & Caicos Islands soccer striker who currently plays for the Los Angeles Galaxy of Major League Soccer. Glinton joined USL First Division team Charleston Battery for the 2006 season. The Bradley University product was drafted by Major League Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy in 2002 before transferring to the Dallas Burn in 2003.
- Hartmut Esslinger
Hartmut Esslinger (born 1944) is a German industrial designer. At age 30 Esslinger quit the Fachhochschule to focus on real-world design. Through his company frogdesign (later renamed frog design), one of his first major successes was the design for the Sony Trinitron television for Wega. In 1981 he was hired by Apple Computer to design several new product lines, including the Macintosh computer and the Apple IIc.