Personal information | |||
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Full name | Ty Marcelo Maurin | ||
Date of birth | August 16, 1982 | ||
Place of birth | La Mirada, California, United States | ||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
1995–1998 | Santa Anita Breakaway | ||
1998–2000 | Santa Anita Heat | ||
2000–2003 | UCLA Bruins | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003 | Orange County Blue Star | 5 | (0) |
2004–2005 | FC Dallas | 3 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Ty Marcelo Maurin (born August 16, 1982) is a former American soccer player.
Maurin was born on August 16, 1982, in La Mirada, California, [1] to Marcelo and Susan Maurin. [2] In 1991 he was playing for the Division 5 Boys American Youth Soccer Organization Region 67 youth soccer team, Chino Outlaws. [3] He attended Don Antonio Lugo High School in Chino, California where he played soccer for 4 years, winning all-league honors in 1998 and 2000. [1] He attended UCLA, where he had played at least 60 matches beginning in 2000, [4] starting in most of them. [1] This included coming on as a substitute in the championship game of the 2002 NCAA Division I Men's Soccer Tournament. [5]
On January 16, 2004, Maurin was drafted in the third round of the 2004 MLS SuperDraft (29th overall) by the Dallas Burn, [6] [7] who were rebranded as FC Dallas later in 2004. After a scoring a header against the Colorado Rapids in the last 2005 pre-season match, [8] he made three appearances for the club a year later. He only played 17 minutes in the MLS before retiring.