Patrick Rakovsky (born 2 June 1993) is a German professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

goalkeeper In many team sports that involve scoring goal (sport), goals, the goalkeeper (sometimes termed goaltender, netminder, GK, goalie, or keeper) is a designated player charged with directly preventing the opposing team from scoring by blocking or i ...

for

Phoenix Rising FC Phoenix Rising Football Club is an American professional soccer team based in Phoenix, Arizona. Founded in 2014 as Arizona United Soccer Club, the team is a member of the USL Championship. They won the league championship in 2023, defeating the ...

in the

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a men's professional association football, soccer league in the second tier of the United States soccer league system#Men's leagues, United States league system. It is organized by the United Soccer League (USL) a ...

. Rakovsky joined

Orange County SC Orange County Soccer Club is an American soccer team based in the Orange County, California city of Irvine. Founded in 2010 as the Los Angeles Blues, the team currently plays in the Western Conference of the USL Championship, the second tier ...

of the

in December 2020 from Finnish club

Lahti Lahti (; ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Päijät-Häme. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Lahti is approximately , while the Lahti sub-region, sub-region has a population of approximately . It is the mo ...

. In

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

, Rakovsky and Orange County won the 2021 USL Championship Final. On 17 January 2023, Rakovsky signed with

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Fritz Walter Medal The Fritz Walter Medal is a series of annual awards given by the German Football Association to youth footballers in Germany. First awarded in 2005, it is named in honour of Fritz Walter, captain of West Germany's 1954 FIFA World Cup-winning team ...

U19 Bronze:

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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Patrick Rakovsky
at fcn.de * * 1993 births Living people German men's footballers Germany men's youth international footballers German people of Czech descent Men's association football goalkeepers Bundesliga players 2. Bundesliga players FC Schalke 04 players 1. FC Nürnberg II players 1. FC Nürnberg players Lierse S.K. players FC Lahti players Orange County SC players Phoenix Rising FC players Challenger Pro League players Veikkausliiga players German expatriate men's footballers German expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium German expatriate sportspeople in Finland Expatriate men's footballers in Finland German expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States 21st-century German sportsmen German expatriate sportspeople in the Czech Republic {{germany-footy-goalkeeper-stub