Conor Casey he was one of those players who showed up once and scored you forever. He was a ‘fire extinguisher’ footballer in United States. And it is that the now former American striker is not very well remembered in the environment of Honduran football. The player, who looked shaved, embittered us towards South Africa 2010.
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The powerful striker did not have the smell of the goal, despite being a striker, but the numbers betray him. In nine years playing the MLS nothing else could score 71 goals, averaging 7.8 goals per year, an extremely low share to be a striker.
And when it came to wearing the shirt of his team did not go well. From 2004 to 2009 he represented United States, Playing a total of 19 games but where nothing else could celebrate two goals.
But look at you … the only two goals that Conor Casey scored with the gringo representative was precisely in front Honduras in the Olympic Stadium rumb a South Africa 2010, In a match that put against the ropes in the “H” of Reinaldo Rueda.
Casey ‘s goals gave the victory to United States 2-3 in the selection of bars and stars on October 10, 2009 and forced to Honduras to go and beat him to the Savior and that they should not add three to Costa Rica to his feud on the last day of the playoffs.
finally Honduras i United States they classified the World Cup But Conor Casey did not attend World Cup, However, remained in the memory of Hondurans as an antagonistic figure who narrowly deprives the “H” of another World Cup quote.
He retired from professional football in 2016 after an extensive 16-year career that began in 2000 playing with him Borussia Dortmund of Germany. He is now a football coach and in 2017 he was announced as the interim coach of the Colorado Rapids, But now he is unemployed.