Nick Rimando
Rimando with Real Salt Lake
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| Full name | Nicholas Paul Rimando | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | June 17, 1979 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montclair, California, United States | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9.9 in (1.78 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Real Salt Lake | ||||||||||||||
| Number | 18 | ||||||||||||||
| College career | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | UCLA Bruins | 48 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Miami Fusion | 47 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2000 | → MLS Pro-40 (loan) | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2006 | D.C. United | 98 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2007– | Real Salt Lake | 279 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| National team‡ | |||||||||||||||
| 1998–1999 | United States U20 | 31 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 2002– | United States | 22 | (0) | ||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of November 16, 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of February 3, 2017 |
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Nicholas Paul "Nick" Rimando (born June 17, 1979) is an American soccer player who currently plays as a goalkeeper for Real Salt Lake in Major League Soccer and the United States national team. He also holds the Major League Soccer record for career shutouts, wins, and most appearances.
He is known for his sometimes unusual technique and for his remarkable reflex saves from short distances.
Born in Montclair, California, Rimando attended Montclair High School, and played two years of college soccer at UCLA. As a freshman in 1997, he tended goal as the Bruins won the College Cup; after his sophomore year, he signed a Project-40 contract with MLS.
Rimando was selected 35th in the 2000 MLS SuperDraft by the Miami Fusion, and to the surprise of many, quickly took the starting position from Jeff Cassar. He started 22 games as a rookie, and 25 as a sophomore, helping the Fusion to win the 2001 MLS Supporters' Shield. When the Fusion were contracted after the 2001 season, Rimando was selected third overall by D.C. United (his coach at Miami, Ray Hudson, was the new United boss) in the subsequent Allocation Draft.
For DC, Rimando played in every game in 2002 and in 25 games in 2003 until he missed the end of the season with an injury. In 2004, with Hudson gone, he lost his starting job to Troy Perkins, but regained it for the stretch run, backstopping DC to the MLS Cup. In 2005, he regained his everyday starter status, but was beaten out by Perkins again in 2006, playing only two games during the whole season.
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