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[[File:Carlos+Mendes+Leyton+Orient+v+New+York+Cosmos+4FFbIz0728wl.jpg|thumbnail|right|Carlos Mendes Playing for the [[New York Cosmos]]]]
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'''Carlos Mendes''' (born December 25, 1980) is an [[United States|American]] [[association football|soccer]] player who plays for [[New York Cosmos (2010)|New York Cosmos]] in the [[North American Soccer League]]. He holds American and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] nationality, due to lineage.
'''Carlos Mendes''' (born December 25, 1980) is an [[United States|American]] [[association football|soccer]] player who plays for [[New York Cosmos (2010)|New York Cosmos]] in the [[North American Soccer League]]. He holds American and [[Portugal|Portuguese]] nationality, due to lineage.


Revision as of 07:30, 2 November 2014

This article is about the American soccer player. For the Portuguese singer, see Carlos Mendes (singer).
Carlos Mendes
Personal information
Date of birth (1980-12-25) December 25, 1980 (age 43)
Place of birth Mineola, New York, United States
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s) Defender
Team information
Current team
 New York Cosmos
Number 4
Youth career
1993–1998 Mineola Portuguese Soccer Club
1998–2001 Old Dominion Monarchs
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002 Long Island Rough Riders 10 (0)
2003–2004 Rochester Rhinos 37 (1)
2005–2011 New York Red Bulls[1] 146 (0)
2012 Columbus Crew 12 (0)
2013– New York Cosmos 14 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of April 14, 2014
File:Carlos+Mendes+Leyton+Orient+v+New+York+Cosmos+4FFbIz0728wl.jpg
Carlos Mendes Playing for the New York Cosmos (2010)

Carlos Mendes (born December 25, 1980) is an American soccer player who plays for New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League. He holds American and Portuguese nationality, due to lineage.

Career

Mendes grew up in Mineola, New York, and started his career with the Long Island Rough Riders of the USL Pro Soccer League. While playing for them, he became a defender. After playing for the Rough Riders in 2002 and winning the PDL title while scoring the equalizer in the Championship game against the Wilmington Hammerheads in N.C., Mendes moved up a division to play for Rochester Rhinos, where he became a consistent starter for the next two seasons.

Mendes signed with the MetroStars before the start of the 2005 season, and surprised by becoming a starter in central defense, filling the position formerly held by Eddie Pope. During the 2006 MLS campaign Mendes started every game on the season but one, which was due to caution point accumulation. For his efforts, he was voted team Defender of the Year by members of the soccer media.

Mendes continued his solid play anchoring the clubs backline during the early part of the 2007 season with New York Red Bulls. However he fell out of favor with coach Bruce Arena and was in and out of the lineup during the latter part of the season. He concluded the campaign appearing in 23 matches (19 starts), his lowest totals since joining the club. For the 2008 season Mendes was converted into a defensive midfielder and appeared in 17 regular season matches. He returned to central defense in the MLS Playoffs starting in the clubs 1-0 victory over Real Salt Lake, helping the club reach its first ever MLS Cup Final. 2009 was an injury plagued season for Mendes as he was limited to 12 league appearances. Mendes began the 2010 season recuperating from his injury problems, once fully fit he replaced Mike Petke as Hans Backe's first choice center back pairing with first year player Tim Ream.[2] On October 21, 2010 Mendes helped Red Bulls record its 13th clean sheet of the season in a 2-0 victory over New England Revolution which clinched the regular season Eastern Conference title.[3]

On March 26, 2011, Mendes became the sixth New York player to hit 10,000 MLS minutes played for the club. By season's end he had moved into second place on the all-time franchise list in games played, games started, and minutes played.

On November 30, 2011, the Red Bulls declined the 2012 option on Mendes's contract, making him eligible for the 2011 MLS Re-Entry Draft.[4] On December 5, 2011 Mendes was selected by Columbus Crew in stage 1 of the MLS Re-Entry Draft. The Crew immediately picked up his option.[5]

On December 11, 2012, Mendes signed on to play for the New York Cosmos in the team's inaugural year in the NASL, becoming the first professional player signed to the club.[6] [7] In his first year with the team he was named team captain, played and started in 14 games and also helped the club to wins in the NASL Fall Championship and the Soccer Bowl.[8] [9] Mendes anchored a defensive line that allowed just 12 goals on the season - the lowest total in the 2013 NASL Fall season. [10]

On April 13, 2014, Mendes scored the first two goals of his professional career in a 4-0 victory over the Atlanta Silverbacks. [11] During the 2014 NASL Spring season, Mendes led a defense that allowed an NASL-low three goals and set the modern day NASL shutout streak, going 372 minutes without conceding a goal. [12] [13]

Career statistics

As of 3 March 2013.
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Long Island Rough Riders 2002 USL-2 10 0 - - - - — - -
Rochester Rhinos 2003 USL-1
2004
New York MetroStars 2005 MLS 24 0 1 0 2 0 — 27 0
New York Red Bulls 2006 31 0 2 0 2 0 — 35 0
2007 23 0 1 0 0 0 — 24 0
2008 17 0 1 0 3 0 — 21 0
2009 12 0 1 0 0 0 — 13 0
2010 21 0 3 0 2 0 — 26 0
2011 18 0 0 0 2 0 — 20 0
Columbus Crew 2012 12 0 - - - - — 12 0
New York Cosmos 2013 NASL 13 0 0 0 1 0 — 14 0
2014 19 2 3 0 0 0 — 22 2
Career total 200 2 12 0 12 0 - - 224 2

Honours

Long Island Rough Riders
New York Red Bulls
New York Cosmos

References

  1. ^ the team was known as MetroStars prior to 2006
  2. ^ http://goal.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/27/mendes-making-a-difference-for-red-bulls/
  3. ^ http://www.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter-recap/red-bulls-beat-revs-clinch-eastern-conference
  4. ^ http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/11/30/mls-announces-players-available-re-entry-process
  5. ^ http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2011/12/05/alvarez-mendes-borman-selected-re-entry-draft
  6. ^ http://nycosmos.com/news/long-islands-own-carlos-mendes-returns-home-play-new-york-cosmos
  7. ^ http://www.goal.com/en-us/news/66/united-states/2012/12/11/3595989/new-york-cosmos-make-carlos-mendes-first-professional
  8. ^ Lohr, Luke (10 November 2013). "New York Cosmos claim 2013 NASL Soccer Bowl behind goal from Marcos Senna". Major League Soccer. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
  9. ^ http://www.nycosmos.com/theclub/roster/playerprofile/uuid/hgjnx3smkdek17hsfpjyxht0z/carlos-mendes
  10. ^ http://www.sportstats.com/soccer/usa/north-american-soccer-league-2013/standings/
  11. ^ http://www.nasl.com/article/uuid/n3exnhfeyfmm1l4oq1amp3yo1/carlos-mendes-named-nasl-player-of-week-one#.VCsCGPldWSo
  12. ^ http://www.nasl.com/standings
  13. ^ http://www.oneworldsports.com/blogs/new-york-cosmos-shutout-streak-ends/
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