PORTLAND TIMBERS AT FC DALLAS WEDNESDAY, MAY 8, 2013
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FREDERIC PIQUIONNE - F
Height: 6-2 Weight: 170 Hometown: Nouméa, New Caledonia Acquired: Signed, 02/28/13 Pronunciation: pick-EE-own Last MLS goal: n/a Last MLS assist: n/a
DOB: 12/08/78
2013: Leads the club with a team-high seven substitute appearances ... Registered a season-high two shots in a 0-0 draw against New England on May 2 ... Entered as an 85th-minute sub in a 1-0 win against San Jose on April 14 ... Started and played 63 minutes for the Timbers Reserves in a 2-1 win against the San Jose Reserves on April 15 ... Started and played 65 minutes for the Timbers Reserves in a 2-1 win over USL PRO side VSI Tampa Bay FC on April 7 ... Appeared as a late sub in a 2-0 win against Houston on April 6 ... Played 45 minutes as a second-half sub on March 30 against Colorado ... Made his Timbers and MLS debut on March 16 against Seattle, entering the match in the 70th minute ... Signed with the Timbers on Feb. 28, 2013. 2011-12: Played in 20 league games for West Ham United during the Championship (second division) season, recording two goals … Provided the game-winner in a 2-1 win against Coventry City for his first goal of the season Nov. 19, 2011 … Scored again two games later … Was sent out on loan to Championship side Doncaster Rovers, and started eight games for Doncaster from March 6 to April 7. INTERNATIONAL: Earned his first cap with the France National Team in a friendly against Austria on March 28, 2007 … Also appeared for France’s B National Team in a 1-0 win over Slovakia in August 2007 … Had his first taste of international football with the Martinique National Team in 2002 … He lived and played soccer on the Caribbean island prior to starting his professional playing career … Rejoined Martinique for the 2012 Caribbean Cup, helping lead the team to a top-four finish in the tournament and qualifying for the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
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DAVID HORST - D
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KALIF ALHASSAN - M
Height: 5-10 Weight: 160 Hometown: Accra, Ghana Acquired: Signed, 12/15/10 Pronunciation: KA-leaf ALL-ha-sahn Last MLS goal: 03/12/12 POR vs. PHI Last MLS assist: 03/03/13 POR vs. NY
DOB: 10/15/90
2013: Played nine minutes as a sub on May 2 against New England, attempting one shot ... Played 14 minutes as a second-half sub April 21 at San Jose ... Started and played 85 minutes in a 1-0 win against San Jose on April 14, it was his first start since a 2-1 loss against Montreal on March 9 ... Came on as a sub for injured midfielder Diego Valeri in the 29th minute on April 6 against Houston ... Played 90 minutes for the Timbers Reserves in a 1-0 loss to Colorado on March 31 ... Started and played the first half of a 2-1 loss to Montreal on March 9 ... Became the only Timbers player to start in each of the club’s three home openers since joining MLS in 2011 ... Recorded an assist on March 3 against New York, becoming the only Portland player to record at least one point in each home opener. 2012: Played in 16 matches during the regular season, recording one goal and two assists ... Hampered by multiple injuries during the season ... Assisted on the game-winning goal and scored his first MLS goal in a 3-1 win over Philadelphia in the Timbers’ season opener March 12 at JELD-WEN Field; it was the first three-point performance of his MLS career ... Was named the North American Soccer Reporters (NASR) Player of the Week for Week 1, becoming the first MLS Timbers player to earn NASR Player of the Week honors. 2011: Named the Timbers’ Young Player of the Year ... Finished second on the team with six assists, including three game-winning assists ... Became the third player in MLS history, joining LA’s Carlos Hermosillo (1998) and New York’s Jorge Rojas (2008), to record assists in each of his first three home matches and went on to tally five overall in the Timbers’ first five home fixtures.
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JACK JEWSBURY - M
Height: 6-4 Weight: 210 DOB: 10/25/85 Hometown: Pine Grove, Pa. Acquired: Selected in the fifth round (9th overall) of the 2010 MLS Expansion Draft from Real Salt Lake, 11/24/10 Last MLS goal: 06/24/12 POR vs. SEA Last MLS assist: n/a
Height: 6-0 Weight: 185 DOB: 04/13/81 Hometown: Springfield, Mo. Acquired: Trade with Sporting Kansas City, 03/01/11 Pronunciation: JEWS-bury Last MLS goal: 10/21/12 POR @ VAN Last MLS assist: 09/15/12 POR vs. SEA
2013: Is out at least six months after undergoing successful surgery to repair a displaced tibial plateau fracture of his right leg on April 8 ... Started at center back on April 6 against Houston, but left the match in the 18th minute with a leg injury ... Earned his first start and first appearance of the season on March 30 against Colorado, drawing a penalty kick in the 71st minute when Colorado’s Atiba Harris fouled him in the box ... Missed the first three games of the season with a groin injury. 2012: Recovered from offseason hip surgery and appeared in 21 matches, logging a career high 1,845 minutes and scoring one goal in his second season in Portland ... At season’s end was named the club’s Community Player of the Year for his outstanding efforts in the community ... Played the full 90 in 20 of the club’s last 22 matches of the season ... Scored his first career MLS goal - the game-winner - in a 2-1 victory over Cascadia-rival Seattle Sounders FC on June 24 at JELD-WEN Field ... Was a four-time selection to the MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week in Weeks 28, 30, 32 and 33 ... Earned honorable mention on the MLSsoccer.com Team of the Week in Week 16 ... Missed the first nine regular-season matches while recovering from hip surgery and made his season debut May 23 in a friendly against Spain’s Valencia CF ... Wore the captain’s armband in the regular-season finale, a 1-1 draw against San Jose on Oct. 27. 2011: Made a career high 15 appearances (11 starts) in his first full season ... Helped the Timbers’ defense record three straight shutouts from Aug. 24-Sept. 16 ... Made his first start of the season April 2 at New England.
2013: Started each of the last five matches in defense, helping the Timbers record shutouts on April 6, April 14 and May 2 ... Made his first start of the season at right back on April 6 against Houston ... Has started each of the last seven matches ... Made his first appearance of the season on March 16 against Seattle, starting and logging 70 minutes ... Made his return to the match-day roster on March 9 after sustaining a hamstring injury that kept him out most of preseason. 2012: Finished second on the team in games played (32), minutes played (2,765) and tied for third in scoring with 10 points from three goals and four assists ... Registered a multi-assist performance in a season-opening 3-1 win over Philadelphia on March 12 ... Played seven games at right back from May 5-July 3 ... Tallied the winning goal in a 2-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes on July 3 at JELD-WEN Field ... Notched the equalizer in a 1-1 draw against FC Dallas Aug. 5 ... Scored the game-winning goal in a 1-0 victory at Vancouver Whitecaps FC on Oct. 21 at BC Place, giving the club its only road win of the season and clinching the Cascadia Cup - the club’s first as an MLS side ... The 35-yard strike was named the MLS Goal of the Week for Week 32 and the Timbers 2012 Play of the Year. 2011: Set career marks in points (22), goals (7) and assists (8) ... Was the only player in MLS in 2011 with multiple four-game points streaks (April 30-May 29 and July 30Aug. 20) ... Became the Timbers’ first MLS All-Star when he played in the AT&T 2011 MLS All-Star Game on July 27 ... Logged two, three-point games in 2011, with one of those performances coming in his 200th MLS match April 17 against FC Dallas ... Voted by his teammates as the Timbers’ 2011 Player’s Player of the Year.