Kamani Hill

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Kamani Hill
Personal information
Full name	Kamani Hill
Date of birth	December 28, 1985
Place of birth	Berkeley, CA, United States
Height	6 ft 0 in (183 cm)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current club	VfL Wolfsburg
Youth clubs
2004-2006	Marin United UCLA
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005 2006 2006-	Orange County Blue Star San Fernando Valley Quakes VfL Wolfsburg	7 (1) 10 (1) 4 (0)
National team2
	United States
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 February 2007. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 18 November 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Kamani Helekunihi Hill (born December 28, 1985 in Berkeley, California) is an American professional soccer player. He currently plays for VfL Wolfsburg of the German Bundesliga.

Hill was born in Berkeley, California to a Trinidadian father and an American mother of Hawaiian origin. He grew up playing in various Bay Area youth leagues and attended Berkeley High School, where he was a star forward on their soccer team. He then attended UCLA, where he played in 40 games (32 starts), scored 9 goals and assisted on 13 more in his two seasons with the team. During his college years he also played with Orange County Blue Star and San Fernando Valley Quakes in the USL Premier Development League.

Hill played for the U.S. national soccer team at the U-20 level in the Suwon Youth Tournament in South Korea in 2005, where he ended up scoring a game-winning goal against Argentina.

At the beginning of October 2006 Hill went to Germany for a trial with Bundesliga team VfL Wolfsburg, and in November he signed a two-and-a-half year contract with the team. He made his first-team debut on 27 January 2007, as a substitute in a 2-1 defeat against Hertha Berlin ^[1]

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[edit] External links

• VfL Wolfsburg official website
• Wolfsburg announce Hill signing (Yanks Abroad)
• Berkeley High's Kamani Hill seen as 'the real deal' (SF Chronicle)

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