Cory Gibbs
Gibbs playing for Chicago Fire in 2011
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| Full name | Cory Gibbs | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | January 14, 1980 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States | |||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Defender | |||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Brown Bears | |||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Palm Beach Pumas | |||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | FC St. Pauli | 60 | (4) | |||||||||
| 2004 | Dallas Burn | 21 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Feyenoord | 15 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2005–2006 | → ADO Den Haag (loan) | 5 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Charlton Athletic | 0 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Colorado Rapids | 29 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2010 | New England Revolution | 25 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Chicago Fire | 29 | (3) | |||||||||
| Total | 184 | (9) | ||||||||||
| National team | ||||||||||||
| 1999 | United States U20 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||
| 2003–2006 | United States | 19 | (0) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Cory Gibbs (born January 14, 1980) is an American former soccer player. He played professionally for clubs in Germany, the Netherlands and England. He also played 19 international matches for the U.S. national soccer team, including at the 2003 CONCACAF Gold Cup.
Gibbs was born in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He played college soccer at Brown University, joining the team in 1997. During his career, Brown won three Ivy League Championships and participated in the NCAA Tournament all four years. In 2000, Gibbs led Brown to an Ivy League championship and the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament. He was named Ivy League Player of the Year, and a First-Team All-American. In 2000, he spent the collegiate off season with the Palm Beach Pumas of the Premier Development League. He was also one of three Brown soccer players, including Matthew Cross (Kansas City Wizards) and Scott Powers (Columbus Crew), to be drafted in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft.
After graduating from Brown in 2001, Gibbs decided not to play in MLS and joined FC St. Pauli of the Bundesliga. He played 25 games for St. Pauli that season, becoming the youngest American to score a goal in the Bundesliga with a goal against FC Cologne. He was also a part of the side that beat the world champions Bayern Munich, a result that earned St. Pauli the nickname of weltpokalsiegerbesieger, translated as World Club Championship Winner Beaters. St. Pauli was relegated to the 2. Bundesliga after the 2001–02 season, and Gibbs played an equally important role with the team in his second season as in his first. St. Pauli, however, was relegated again after the 2002–03 season, this time to the Regionalliga Nord, the German third division. Gibbs remained with the team, being moved from central defense to defensive midfielder.
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