Tim Melia

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Tim Melia
Personal information
Full name Timothy Melia
Date of birth (1986-05-15) May 15, 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Great River, New York, United States
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Sporting Kansas City
Number 29
Youth career
2004–2005 Oneonta Red Dragons
2006–2007 Lynn Fighting Knights
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 Long Island Rough Riders 7 (0)
2008–2010 Rochester Rhinos 13 (0)
2010–2011 Real Salt Lake 0 (0)
2010 → Charleston Battery (loan) 16 (0)
2011 → F.C. New York (loan) 4 (0)
2012–2014 Chivas USA 6 (0)
2015– Sporting Kansas City 81 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 24, 2017

Tim Melia (/ˈmiːliə/; born May 15, 1986) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer.

Career

College and amateur

Melia was born in Great River, New York. Melia attended East Islip High School and played two years of college soccer at the State University of New York at Oneonta before transferring to Lynn University in 2006, where he played his junior and senior years.

Melia played for the Long Island Rough Riders in the USL Premier Development League in 2007.[1]

Professional

Melia signed with the Rochester Rhinos of the USL First Division on April 30, 2008.[2] An injury to veteran goalkeeper Scott Vallow resulted in increased playing time and a number of starts for Melia during the 2009 season, and he became known for his accurate long balls from goal kicks and dead ball situations.[citation needed]

After trialling with Real Salt Lake during their pre-season, Melia signed with the club on March 16, 2010; he was sent on loan to USL2 side Charleston Battery in April. Following his clean sheet June 29 in a U.S. Open Cup win over MLS side Chicago Fire (Charleston won 3-0 on penalty kicks), Melia was named "Player of the 3rd Round" for the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.[3] Melia was waived by Real Salt Lake on November 23, 2011.[4]

Melia signed with Chivas USA in January 2012 and joined them during the 2012 pre-season.[5] During his time with Chivas, Melia made six league appearances for the club.

On August 13, 2014, Sporting Kansas City called Melia up from the league pool after two of the team's three goalies, Eric Kronberg and Andy Gruenebaum, were injured.[6] On December 23, 2014, it was announced that Sporting Kansas City had signed Melia for the 2015 season.[7]

On November 16, 2017, Melia was awarded the 2017 MLS goalkeeper of the year with an MLS historical low goals-against average of 0.78 with a minimum of 30 fixtures. [8]

Honors

Club

Charleston Battery
Sporting Kansas City

Individual

  • MLS Comeback Player of the Year: 2015
  • Man of the Match: 2015 US Open Cup Finals
  • Player of the tournament: 2017 US Open Cup[9]
  • MLS Goalkeeper of the Year: 2017 Major league soccer end of season award[10]
  • Sporting Kansas City Most Valuable Player: 2017[11]
  • MLS Best XI: 2017[12]

References

  1. ^ 2007 Long Island Rough Riders Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ "Welcome to Lynn University - Lynn University, Florida". www.lynn.edu.
  3. ^ "2010 US Open Cup Third Round: Tim Melia of the Charleston Battery is Player of the Round - TheCup.us - Full Coverage of US Open Cup Soccer". thecup.us.
  4. ^ "Players waived as teams begin to shape rosters for 2012". MLSsoccer.com. 23 November 2011.
  5. ^ "Angel, Smith among faces at Chivas training camp". 16 January 2012.
  6. ^ Kovzan, Sam. "Sporting KC Weekly Update: Aug. 13, 2014". SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. Retrieved 13 August 2014.
  7. ^ "Sporting KC signs goalkeeper Tim Melia". Sporting Kansas City. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  8. ^ http://www.kansascity.com/sports/mls/sporting-kc/article184982198.html
  9. ^ Hainkel, Alan. "2017 US Open Cup: Tim Melia of Sporting KC voted TheCup.us Player of the Tournament | TheCup.us - Full Coverage of US Open Cup Soccer". thecup.us.
  10. ^ Stejskal, Sam (16 November 2017). "Sporting KC's Tim Melia named 2017 MLS Allstate Goalkeeper of the Year". MLSsoccer.com.
  11. ^ "Tim Melia voted Sporting KC's 2017 Most Valuable Player". Sporting Kansas City.
  12. ^ "2017 MLS Best XI revealed: Who was the best in 2017?". MLS Soccer. 30 November 2017.

External links

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