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| Full name | James Paul Conrad | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1977-02-12)February 12, 1977 (age 48) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Arcadia, California, United States | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | |||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | San Francisco Glens (head coach) | |||||||||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1994–1995 | San Diego State Aztecs | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1997 | UCLA Bruins | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | San Diego Flash | 26 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2002 | San Jose Earthquakes | 84 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | →San Francisco Seals (loan) | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | →MLS Pro-40 (loan) | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | →Lech Poznań (loan) | 8 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2010 | Kansas City Wizards | 204 | (17) | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Chivas USA | 2 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Total | 325 | (22) | ||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2010 | United States | 27 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Chivas USA (assistant) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019, 2022 | San Francisco Glens (associate) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | San Francisco Glens | |||||||||||||||||||
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
James Paul Conrad (born February 12, 1977) is an American formersoccer player who played as adefender. During his 13-year MLS career, he was four-timeMLS Best XI and the 2005MLS Defender of the Year. He also earned 27caps with theUnited States men's national soccer team and went to the2006 FIFA World Cup.
After his playing career Conrad has worked in the media industry[2] and currently stars on hisYouTube channelJimmy Conrad, he also streams onTwitch regularly. He currently serves as the technical director ofUSL League Two sideSan Francisco Glens.
On February 12, 1977, Conrad was born inArcadia, California. Conrad attended Temple City High School inTemple City, California.[3][4]
Conrad attendedTemple City High School inTemple City, California and was a four-year letterman in soccer. Conrad played atSan Diego State University in 1994 and 1995, and then transferred to theUniversity of California, Los Angeles. While playing for UCLA, he was a member of the 1997NCAA Championship team.
Undrafted by MLS, Conrad had an unsuccessful trial with theLos Angeles Galaxy. However, the Galaxy coaching staff recommended he play for one of their affiliated lower division teams. Consequently, Conrad contacted the now-defunctSan Diego Flash of theA-League which gave him a contract. In 1999,Brian Quinn became the head coach of theSan Jose Clash. When Quinn began searching for an additional defender and goalkeeper for the Clash,Ralf Wilhelms, head coach of the Flash and a former teammate of Quinn on theSan Diego Sockers, recommended Conrad and Flash goalkeeperJoe Cannon.[5] The Clash signed Conrad that year. He played with the club, later re-branded as the Earthquakes, for four seasons, helping them to theMLS Cup in 2001. In 2000, he also played forLech Poznań in Poland.
In 2003, Conrad was traded to the Wizards for a second-round draft pick, which the 'Quakes used to selectArturo Alvarez. Conrad's stock rose while with Kansas City; never a big scorer, he tallied four goals during his first season (he has ten in his MLS career). In 2004, he helped the Wizards to theUS Open Cup and the MLS Cup Final as the leader of the league's stingiest defense and was named to the league'sBest XI and was a finalist forMLS Defender of the Year Award. He won the award a year later.
Despite rumors of a possible European transfer following the Wizards' disappointing 2006 season, Conrad renewed his contract with the Wizards beginning the 2007 season, and new head coachCurt Onalfo rewarded him the club captaincy.
Conrad was out of contract after the2010 MLS season and elected to participate in the2010 MLS Re-Entry Draft. On December 15, 2010, Conrad was selected byChivas USA in Stage 2 of the Re-Entry draft.[6] He made his debut, and scored his first goal for his new team on March 19, 2011, in their first game of the 2011 MLS season – ironically against his old club,Sporting Kansas City.[7]
After struggling with injury during the 2011 season, and suffering from side effects of six concussions, Jimmy Conrad announced his retirement from professional soccer on August 18, 2011.[8]
Conrad received his first cap for theUnited States national team on July 7, 2005, in aGold Cup match againstCuba. Less than one year later, Conrad made the U.S. roster for the2006 FIFA World Cup. In Germany, Conrad came in as a substitute againstItaly in the team's 1–1 draw with the eventual champions, and played all ninety minutes againstGhana. On January 20, 2007, Conrad captained the national team for the second time, where the United States hosted an internationalfriendly withDenmark. The U.S. won that match 3–1. On February 7, 2007, in an international friendly withMexico, Conrad was named theMan of the Match. He scored his first-ever goal for the U.S. in the fifty-second minute of that match. On June 25, 2009, after not having played with the national team in previous qualifying, Conrad was named to the U.S. squad for theCONCACAF Gold Cup.[9]
In September 2018, Conrad became technical director and head associate coach of theSan Francisco Glens.[10] He was named head coach of the Glens ahead of the 2020 season.[11] In 2022, Conrad returned to his role as technical director and head associate coach for the Glens to work with new head coach Gabe Saucedo. The club made theUSL League Two playoffs for the first time that season, upsetting top-seeded Capital FC before bowing out in the Western Conference semifinals.
Conrad's wife is Lyndsey Conrad. They have two daughters, Julia Rose Conrad, born in 2007, Jane Mirabelle Conrad, born 2011.[4] He is a correspondent for theUEFA Champions League andEuropa League forCBS Sports. Conrad is an avid supporter ofPremier League sideNewcastle United.[14]
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Wolff's former Kansas City teammate Jimmy Conrad also went in the early going on Wednesday, taken second overall by Chivas USA. Conrad spent the last eight seasons in Kansas City and was a perennial All-Star during his time there, and could join a Chivas USA team largely in-flux after missing the postseason in 2010.
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