Marcus Hahnemann

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Marcus Hahnemann
Personal information
Full name	Marcus Augustus Hahnemann
Date of birth	June 15, 1972 (age 34)
Place of birth	Seattle, WA, United States
Height	6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Nickname	Red Bird
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Reading
Number	1
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1994–1997 1997–1999 1999–2002 2001 2001–2002 2002–	Seattle Sounders Colorado Rapids Fulham → Rochdale (loan) → Reading (loan) Reading	066 (0) 002 (0) 005 (0) 006 (0) 204 (0)
National team2
1994–	United States	006 (0)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 15:13, 16 March 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 11:29, 13 September 2006 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Marcus Augustus Hahnemann (born 15 June 1972 in Seattle, Washington, United States) is a football goalkeeper. He currently plays for Reading in the Premier League, and is one of three American goalkeepers in the English top flight. His parents moved to the United States from Hamburg, Germany, so he is of German descent.^{[citation needed]}

Contents 1 US soccer 2 English football 3 International career 4 Trivia 5 References 6 External links

[edit] US soccer

Hahnemann played college soccer for the Seattle Pacific University Falcons. A Division II powerhouse, Hahnemann lead SPU to the NCAA Division II National Championship in 1993. Hahnemann currently holds many SPU records, including most career clean sheets.

Hahnemann's pro career started in 1994 with the Seattle Sounders of the A-League. He waited until 1997 to join Major League Soccer, signing with the Colorado Rapids.

[edit] English football

After two and a half seasons with the Colorado Rapids, he signed with English club Fulham, but did not see much playing time. In 2001, he was loaned out to Rochdale, and then to Reading. He then joined the latter club permanently, and has been their first choice 'keeper ever since.

Hahnemann has a great relationship with the Reading fans, handing his goalkeeper's shirt to a member of the crowd after every match. In the April 2006 issue of FourFourTwo magazine he revealed that the club had ordered him to stop doing this due to the expense, but he refused and began buying new shirts at his own expense from the club shop. In October 2006, Reading's shirt sponsor, Kyocera, agreed to pay for all of his shirts for the remainder of the 2006-07 season.^[1]

In April 2006, he was named as one of the Championship Team of the Year by the Professional Footballers' Association along with four other of his Reading teammates.^[2]

On 27 November 2006, Hahnemann signed a one year extension to his contract with Reading, keeping him at the Madejski Stadium until the summer of 2008.^[3]

[edit] International career

As of the end of the 2005 CONCACAF Gold Cup, Hahnemann has earned six caps for the United States national team, his first coming on 12 November 1994 against Honduras. He was selected for the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany, and was allocated shirt number 19,^[4] but was an unused substitute in all of the US's matches behind Kasey Keller and Tim Howard.

[edit] Trivia

• Hahnemann participated in FourFourTwo's feature My Secret Vice in early 2006. His 'secret vice' was that he is a petrolhead.^{[citation needed]}
• Before Reading's 1-1 draw against Manchester United on 23 September 2006, Hahnemann was said to have prepared for the match by dressing up as Obi-Wan Kenobi.^[5]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Marcus Hahnemann profile at readingfc.co.uk
• Marcus Hahnemann career stats at Soccerbase
• Marcus Hahnemann profile and career stats at footballdatabase.com
• Marcus Hahnemann profile at ussoccer.com
• Marcus Hahnemann profile at yanks-abroad.com
• Podcast interview with Marcus Hahnemann

Reading F.C. - Current Squad
1 Hahnemann | 2 Murty | 3 Shorey | 4 Sidwell | 5 Sonko | 6 Gunnarsson | 7 Little | 8 Lita | 9 Doyle | 10 Hunt | 11 Oster | 12 Kitson | 14 Halls | 15 Harper | 16 Ingimarsson | 17 Convey | 19 Seol | 22 Bikey | 23 de la Cruz | 24 Long | 25 Bennett | 27 Brown | 28 Halford | 29 Duberry | 32 Federici | 47 Máté | –– Andersen | –– Bozanic | Manager: Coppell

	United States squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup
1 Howard | 2 Albright | 3 Bocanegra | 4 Mastroeni | 5 O'Brien | 6 Cherundolo | 7 Lewis | 8 Dempsey | 9 Johnson | 10 Reyna | 11 Ching | 12 Berhalter | 13 Conrad | 14 Olsen | 15 Convey | 16 Wolff | 17 Beasley | 18 Keller | 19 Hahnemann | 20 McBride | 21 Donovan | 22 Onyewu | 23 Pope | Coach: Arena

Persondata
NAME	Hahnemann, Marcus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Footballer
DATE OF BIRTH	15 June 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Seattle, Washington
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH