Erik Palmer-Brown

Erik Palmer-Brown
Personal information
Full name Erik Ross Palmer-Brown[1]
Date of birth (1997-04-24) April 24, 1997
Place of birth Napoleon, Ohio, United States
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Centre back
Club information
Current team
 NAC Breda
(on loan from Manchester City)
Number 14
Youth career
2009–2013 Sporting Kansas City
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2013–2017 Sporting Kansas City 20 (0)
2016 → Porto B (loan) 17 (0)
2017 → Swope Park Rangers (loan) 5 (0)
2018– Manchester City 0 (0)
2018 → KV Kortrijk (loan) 9 (0)
2018– → NAC Breda (loan) 2 (0)
National team‡
2013 United States U17 5 (0)
2014–2015 United States U18 6 (1)
2014–2017 United States U20 17 (1)
2018– United States 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 11, 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 9, 2018

Erik Ross Palmer-Brown (born April 24, 1997) is an American soccer player who currently plays for NAC Breda on loan from Manchester City.

Career

Sporting Kansas City

Palmer-Brown played in the U.S. Soccer Development Academy. On August 2, 2013, at the age of 16, he signed his first professional contract,[2] making him Sporting Kansas City's youngest ever player.[3]

In January 2014, Italian Serie A team Juventus reportedly made a $1 million bid for Erik Palmer-Brown, which was rejected by Sporting Kansas City.[4] In the same year, Palmer-Brown was voted number 39 on UK website TeamTalk's top 50 Wonderkids in 2014.[5]

He made his debut for Sporting Kansas City on May 18, 2014 in a regular season match against Chicago Fire. But it ended prematurely when he was sent off in the 64th minute for a second yellow card after giving away a penalty in the 15th minute in a 2–1 loss.[6]

FC Porto

On February 1, 2016 Palmer-Brown was loaned to Portuguese club Porto until December 31, 2016.[7] He started regularly in central defense for Porto B, helping them to the LigaPro title.[8]

Manchester City

Palmer-Brown signed a contract with Premier League side Manchester City. He was immediately getting loaned to Belgian First Division A club KV Kortrijk until the end of the 2017–18 season.[9]

Loans

After spending the second half of the 2017–18 season with Kortrijk, Palmer-Brown was loaned to NAC Breda in the Eredivisie for the 2018–19 season.[10]

International career

Palmer-Brown has represented the United States at the U-15, U-17, U-18, and U-20 levels. He has made 6 appearances for the U-18 team up to this point, scoring his first goal for the team in a 1–0 win over the Czech Republic.[11] In 2015, he was called to the roster that played in the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup.[12]

As captain, Palmer-Brown won the 2017 CONCACAF U-20 Championship with the United States.[13] He was awarded the Golden Ball Award by CONCACAF as the best player of the tournament, playing the defensive midfield position.[14] Palmer-Brown then played in central defense for the United States at the 2017 FIFA U-20 World Cup, and was named to the Best XI of the Tournament by both Squawka[15] and Scouted Football.[16]

On May 28, 2018, Palmer-Brown made his senior national team debut in a 3–0 win against Bolivia.

Personal

Palmer-Brown was a student of Archbishop O'Hara High School in Kansas City, Missouri. He is a resident of Lee's Summit, Missouri.

Honors

Sporting Kansas City

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup New Zealand 2015 List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. May 30, 2015. p. 23. Retrieved June 1, 2015.
  2. ↑ "Sporting Kansas City signs 16-year-old Homegrown Player Erik Palmer-Brown". Sporting Kansas City.
  3. ↑ Sporting KC Youth Academy Changing US Development System | The University Daily Kansan
  4. ↑ "Sporting Kansas City spurns Juventus' bid for defender Erik Palmer-Brown". SI.com. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  5. ↑ "TEAMtalk's top 50 wonderkids: The full list". November 11, 2014. Archived from the original on November 12, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Sporting KC's Erik Palmer-Brown learns harsh lessons in MLS debut, vows to be "ready" upon return". MLSsoccer.com.
  7. ↑ "Sporting KC loans defender Erik Palmer-Brown to FC Porto". Sporting Kansas City.
  8. ↑ "Shaped by time at Porto, U.S. captain Palmer-Brown primed for second U-20 World Cup". Sports Illustrated.
  9. ↑ http://kvk.be/nl/amerikaans-international-van-manchester-city-versterkt-de-kerels
  10. ↑ "NAC leases Palmer-Brown from City" (in Dutch). NAC Breda. Retrieved 7 July 2018.
  11. ↑ "U.S. U18 MNT impressive in France". TopDrawerSoccer.com. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  12. ↑ "Tab Ramos Finalizes 21-Player Roster for 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup". www.ussoccer.com. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  13. ↑ "USA win their first CONCACAF U-20 Championship". SB Nation. March 5, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Five Things To Know About U-20 MNT Captain Erik Palmer-Brown". US Soccer. May 15, 2017.
  15. ↑ "From Woodman to Penaranda: The U20 World Cup Team of the Tournament". www.Squawka.com. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
  16. ↑ "Scouted's U20 World Cup Team of the Tournament 2017". www.Twitter.com. Retrieved 2017-07-23.
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