Tim Melia

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Tim Melia
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Melia with Rochester Rhinos in 2009
Personal information
Full name Timothy Melia [1]
Date of birth (1986-05-15) May 15, 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Great River, New York, United States
Height 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) [2]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Sporting Kansas City
Number 29
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2004–2005 Oneonta Red Dragons
2006–2007 Lynn Fighting Knights
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2007 Long Island Rough Riders 7 (0)
2008–2009 Rochester Rhinos 13 (0)
2010–2011 Real Salt Lake 0 (0)
2010 → Charleston Battery (loan) 16 (0)
2011 → F.C. New York (loan) 4 (0)
2012–2014 Chivas USA 6 (0)
2014 → Sporting Kansas City (loan) 0 (0)
2014 → FC Dallas (loan) 0 (0)
2014 → D.C. United (loan) 0 (0)
2015– Sporting Kansas City 251 (0)
2016 → Swope Park Rangers (loan) 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 4, 2024

Timothy Melia ( /ˈmiːliə/ ; born May 15, 1986) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Major League Soccer club Sporting Kansas City.

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Early career

Melia was born in Great River, New York. Melia attended East Islip High School and played two years of college soccer at the State University of New York at Oneonta before transferring to Lynn University in 2006, where he played his junior and senior years.

Melia played for the Long Island Rough Riders in the USL Premier Development League in 2007. [3]

Professional career

Rochester Rhinos

Melia signed with the Rochester Rhinos of the USL First Division on April 30, 2008. [4] An injury to veteran goalkeeper Scott Vallow resulted in increased playing time and a number of starts for Melia during the 2009 season, and he became known for his accurate long balls from goal kicks and dead-ball situations.[ citation needed ]

Real Salt Lake

After trialling with Real Salt Lake during their pre-season, Melia signed with the club on March 16, 2010; he was sent on loan to USL Division 2 side Charleston Battery in April. Following his clean sheet on June 29 in a U.S. Open Cup match against the Chicago Fire (Charleston won 3–0 on penalty kicks), Melia was named "Player of the 3rd Round" for the 2010 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. [5] Melia was waived by Real Salt Lake on November 23, 2011. [6]

Chivas USA

Melia signed with Chivas USA in January 2012 and joined them during the 2012 pre-season. [7] During his time with Chivas, Melia made six league appearances for the club.

MLS Pool Goalkeeper

In the middle of the 2014 season, Melia was released by Chivas and became the league pool goalkeeper for Major League Soccer since he had a guaranteed contract. [8] [9] In August 2014, Sporting Kansas City called Melia up from the league pool after two of the team's three goalies, Eric Kronberg and Andy Gruenebaum, were injured. [10] He was later called up by FC Dallas and D.C. United on an emergency basis, but he did not make any appearances. [11]

Sporting KC

In December 2014, after having joined them in the previous season as an emergency pool goalkeeper, he signed with Sporting KC for the 2015 season. [12]

After beginning the 2015 season as the understudy to starter Luis Marín, Melia emerged as the starter in May and was the primary goalkeeper for the remainder of the season. For his breakthrough efforts, Melia was named MLS Comeback Player of the Year. [13]

Since earning the starting job, Melia has emerged as one of the top keepers in the league.[ citation needed ] He has led SKC to the U.S. Open Cup titles in both 2015, where SKC prevailed in a penalty shootout, and 2017, a hard-fought victory against the New York Red Bulls. Following a 2017 season where he allowed a record-low 0.78 goals per game, Melia was named MLS Goalkeeper of the Year, [14] and also earned a spot on the MLS Best XI. [15]

Honors

Charleston Battery

Sporting Kansas City

Individual

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References

  1. ↑ "National team roster, 2021 CONCACAF Gold Cup: USA" (PDF). CONCACAF . June 18, 2021. pp. 1–2. Retrieved June 18, 2021.
  2. ↑ "Tim Melia". Sporting Kansas City. Retrieved August 23, 2022.
  3. ↑ 2007 Long Island Rough Riders Archived June 10, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
  4. ↑ "Welcome to Lynn University - Lynn University, Florida". www.lynn.edu.
  5. ↑ "2010 US Open Cup Third Round: Tim Melia of the Charleston Battery is Player of the Round - TheCup.us - Full Coverage of US Open Cup Soccer". thecup.us.
  6. ↑ "Players waived as teams begin to shape rosters for 2012". MLSsoccer.com. November 23, 2011. Archived from the original on May 8, 2013. Retrieved November 23, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Angel, Smith among faces at Chivas training camp". January 16, 2012.
  8. ↑ Floyd, Thomas (July 6, 2017). "MLS Spotlight: Ultimate journeyman Melia savoring career year for Sporting KC". Goal.
  9. ↑ Brisendine, Steve (May 6, 2015). "Out of the pool, into the fire: Goalkeeper Tim Melia making the most of his chance with Sporting KC". Major League Soccer .
  10. ↑ Kovzan, Sam. "Sporting KC Weekly Update: Aug. 13, 2014". SportingKC.com. Sporting Kansas City. Archived from the original on August 14, 2014. Retrieved August 13, 2014.
  11. ↑ Tavis, Michael (December 24, 2014). "Sporting KC Signs Goalkeeper Tim Melia". KC Kingdom.
  12. ↑ "Sporting KC signs goalkeeper Tim Melia". Sporting Kansas City. Archived from the original on December 23, 2014. Retrieved December 23, 2014.
  13. ↑ Bedakian, Armen (November 18, 2015). "Sporting KC goalkeeper Tim Melia named MLS Comeback Player of 2015". The Score .
  14. ↑ McDowell, Sam (November 16, 2017). "Sporting KC's Tim Melia takes unlikely path to MLS goalkeeper of year award". Kansas City Star.
  15. ↑ "2017 MLS Best XI revealed: Who was the best in 2017?". MLS Soccer. November 30, 2017.
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