Mike Duhaney (born April 5, 1974) is an American retired professional

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player who played in

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(MLS) and the 2. Bundesliga. He was the 1997 Major League Soccer Rookie of the Year.

Career

Duhaney played

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at the

University of Nevada, Las Vegas The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Paradise, Nevada, United States. The campus is about east of the Las Vegas Strip. It was formerly part of the ...

from 1992 to 1994, where he was named first-team All-Conference in 1994. Upon graduating in 1994, he spent all of 1995 training full-time with the U.S. U-23 Olympic team. He also played four games for the U.S. team at the

1995 Pan American Games The 1995 Pan American Games, officially known as the XII Pan American Games () and commonly known as Mar del Plata 1995, were held in Mar del Plata, Argentina, from 12 to 26 March 1995. After 44 years, this was the Pan American Games' first retur ...

. Duhaney was selected eighty-seventh overall in the

1996 MLS Inaugural Player Draft The MLS Inaugural Player Draft, held before Major League Soccer's initial 1996 season, distributed players to the league's ten inaugural teams. The Inaugural Player Draft occurred on February 6 and 7, 1996 after each team was allocated four marqu ...

by the

Tampa Bay Mutiny The Tampa Bay Mutiny were an American professional soccer team based in Tampa, Florida. The club competed in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference. The Mutiny were a charter member of MLS, playing from 1996 to 2001. Th ...

. He lost the entire 1996 season due to a knee injury. In 1997, he seized the Mutiny's left back position and started twenty-five games, earning MLS Rookie of the Year. In June 1998, Duhaney was traded midway into the next season to the MetroStars in exchange for

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after the MetroStars backline was decimated by injuries. Although he saw a good deal of playing time with the Metros, he never settled in. On January 28, 2000, was traded to the

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in exchange for

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. Duhaney stayed in Columbus for two years, starting thirty-nine games for the team, but decided not to return after the 2001 season. In 2002, Duhaney signed with 2. Bundesliga team

1. FSV Mainz 05 1. Fußball- und Sport-Verein Mainz 05 e. V., usually shortened to 1. FSV Mainz 05 or simply Mainz 05 (), is a German professional sports club, founded in 1905 and based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Mainz 05 play in the Bundesliga, the top tie ...

Honors

Individual *

MLS Rookie of the Year The MLS Young Player of the Year Award (known as the Rookie of the Year Award from 1996 to 2019) is an annual award given to the top player in Major League Soccer under the age of 22. The award was initially awarded to a rookie, or a player who ...

: 1997

References

External links

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MetroStars player profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Duhaney, Mike 1974 births Living people American men's soccer players Soccer players from San Diego Men's association football defenders United States men's under-23 international soccer players Major League Soccer players UNLV Rebels men's soccer players Tampa Bay Mutiny players New York Red Bulls players Columbus Crew players 1. FSV Mainz 05 players 2. Bundesliga players American expatriate men's soccer players Expatriate men's footballers in Germany 20th-century American sportsmen