Jeff Curtin

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Jeff Curtin
Personal information
Full name Jeff Curtin
Date of birth July 4, 1983 (1983-07-04) (age 24)
Place of birth    Oreland, PA, United States
Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)
Playing position defender
Club information
Current club D.C. United
Number 3
Youth clubs
2002-2005
1996-1999
Georgetown
Philadelphia Soccer Club Coppa[1]


Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
2006-07
2008
Chicago Fire
D.C. United
3 (1)
0 (0)   

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of 25 May 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of 3 June 2006.
* Appearances (Goals)

Jeff Curtin (born July 4, 1983 in Oreland, Pennsylvania) is a retired American soccer player, who last played for D.C. United of Major League Soccer.

Jeff played college soccer at Georgetown University, where he finished with 12 goals and 7 assists in 73 matches. He was named All Big East Second Team for four consecutive years (2002-05). He was drafted in the 2nd round, 14th overall, by the Chicago Fire in the 2006 MLS SuperDraft; he subsequently played 3 times for Fire, scoring one goal, before being claimed in the waiver draft by D.C. United on March 4, 2008.[2] On May 23, 2008, D.C. United announced that Jeff Curtain was retiring after a sequence of injuries and expected rehabilitation.[3]

He is the younger brother of his former teammate with the Fire, defender Jim Curtin, now of Chivas USA.


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