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Timothy Matthew "Tim" Howard (born March 6, 1979) is an American soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for English club Everton and the United States national team. Howard started his career with the North Jersey Imperials before making a move to the MetroStars. His appearances soon attracted the attention of Manchester United, who signed him in 2003. He enjoyed relative success with them as they won the 2003 FA Community Shield, the 2003–04 FA Cup and the 2005–06 League Cup. However, after United signed Edwin van der Sar, Howard went out on loan to Everton to play more first-team soccer and eventually signed permanently with them in February 2007. On January 4, 2012, Howard scored a goal, his first as a professional, against Bolton Wanderers. This made him only the fourth goalkeeper to score a goal in a Premier League match. Howard is the most capped goalkeeper of all-time for the with over 100 caps since his debut in 2002. He was an unused substitute for the 2006 World Cup but later established himself as first-choice and started all of the United States' games at the 2010 and 2014 World Cups. The team reached the Round of 16 on both occasions, and during the latter Howard set a World Cup record for most saves in a match with 15. Howard's book, ''The Keeper'', published in 2014, describes his career and his life with Tourette syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).〔 ==Early years== Howard was born in North Brunswick, New Jersey, to Matthew Howard, an African American, and Esther Howard (née Fekete), a native of Hungary.〔Howard (2014), p. 10.〕 His father, a long-distance truck driver,〔 "moved out before () formed () first memory",〔 and his parents divorced when Howard was three;〔 Howard lived with his mother, who worked for a container packing distributor.〔Howard (2014), p. 11.〕 Howard was diagnosed with Tourette syndrome when he was in the sixth grade. In 1991, before Howard was a teenager, Tim Mulqueen, a one-time assistant coach for the United States men's national under-17 soccer team, saw Howard's potential at a single, $25 soccer coaching session, and took Howard under his wing, offering him free soccer coaching.〔Howard (2014), pp. 35–37.〕 In high school, Howard proved a star not only in soccer as a midfielder, but also on the basketball court, where he averaged 15 points per game and helped bring his team to the state finals in his senior year. However his talent and abilities as a soccer player were far more impressive. Despite his position on his high school team, Howard was a far better goalkeeper than he was a midfielder. During high school, he played for Central Jersey Cosmos.〔Howard (2014), p. 44.〕 In 1995, Howard was part of the U.S. under-17 squad.〔 In 1997, Mulqueen became the coach of the North Jersey Imperials, a team in the United Systems of Independent Soccer Leagues (USISL), and served as the goalkeeping coach for Major League Soccer's MetroStars; he considered Howard for a position on the Imperials. Howard signed with the Imperials and played in his first professional game before graduating from high school.〔Howard (2014), p. 53.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tim Howard」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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