Chad Deering

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Chad Deering
Personal information
Full name	Chad Deering
Date of birth	September 2, 1970 (age 36)
Place of birth	Garland, Texas, United States
Height	6 ft 2 in
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Youth clubs
1989-1990	Indiana University
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1990-1993 1993-1994 1994 1995-1996 1996-1998 1998-2003 2003-2004 2004	Werder Bremen Schalke 04 Rosenborg Emden VfL Wolfsburg Dallas Burn Dallas Sidekicks DFW Tornados Charleston Battery	0 (0) 6 (0) 41 (5) 163 (16) 9 (2) 0 (0)
National team2
1993-2001	United States	18 (1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:33, 3 january 2007 (UTC). 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 7 December 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Chad Deering (born September 2, 1970) is a retired American soccer player.

Deering was born in Garland, Texas and grew up in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where he attended Plano Senior High School. He was twice selected as a Parade Magazine high school All American and was the 1988 Texas high school player of the year his senior year. While in high school, he debuted with the U.S. U-16 national team for whom he played at the 1987 FIFA U-16 World Championship. During that tournament, Deering scored a goal in a 4-2 loss to South Korea.

Deering was highly recruited out of high school and elected to play with Indiana University which had just won the NCAA championship. He left Indiana after only two season in order to pursue a professional career in Germany, having scored 12 goals and assisted on 12 others. He earned NCAA first team All American honors his second, and final season, with Indiana. That year he was also the NCAA's post-season tournament's points leader with 3 goals and 1 assist.

Deering began his professional career with the Werder Bremen reserve team. After three years and no chance of playing for the Bremen first team, Deering moved to Schalke04 in 1993 where he continued to languish playing for Schalke's amateur squad. In 1994, Deering played a single seaon with Rosenborg of the Norwegian Premier League. He returned to Germany the next year, becoming the first of several Americans to sign with Regionalliga team Emden. In 1996, he moved from Emden to German Second Division club VfL Wolfsburg and finally found a top German team which would play him. That season, he helped Wolfsburg gain promotion to the Bundesliga. The next year, Deering played 15 games for Wolfsburg in its first year in the German top division.

On July 2, 1998, MLS allocated Deering to the Dallas Burn where he became a regular for the next seven years. However, it took him to the 2001 season before he began to play up to his potential.^[1] When he did, he earned selection to the 2001 and 2002 MLS All Star team.

On January 24, 2004, Deering signed with the Dallas Sidekicks of Major Indoor Soccer League. The 2003-2004 season was nearly over and Deering played only 9 games with the Sidekicks.

He also played with the DFW Tornados of the minor league PDL.

On December 30, 2004, the Charleston Battery of the USL First Division signed Deering. On March 16, 2005, Deering announced his retirement from professional soccer and his intention to return to Plano, Texas to pursue a coaching career. He never played a game with the Battery, as its season had ended on August 2004 and the 2005 season did not begin until April 2005.

He earned his first cap when he came on for Hugo Perez in a December 18, 1993 loss to Germany. Deering would go on to play 18 games for the U.S. national team, scoring his only national team goal in a March 14, 1998 2-2 tie with Paraguay. When U.S. coach Steve Sampson sacked John Harkes, the team's primary defensive midfielder prior to the 1998 FIFA World Cup, Sampson moved Deering into that position.^[2] However, Deering proved unable to replace Harkes and played only a single game, a 0-2 loss to Germany, in the World Cup.

Deering currently coaches with the Sting Dallas soccer club.

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	United States squad - 1998 FIFA World Cup
1 Friedel | 2 Hejduk | 3 Pope | 4 Burns | 5 Dooley | 6 Regis | 7 Wegerle | 8 Stewart | 9 Moore | 10 Ramos | 11 Wynalda | 12 Agoos | 13 Jones | 14 Preki | 15 Deering | 16 Sommer | 17 Balboa | 18 Keller | 19 Maisonneuve | 20 McBride | 21 Reyna | 22 Lalas | Coach: Sampson