Chad Deering
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | September 2, 1970 | ||
| Place of birth | Garland, Texas, United States | ||
| Height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –1988 | Indiana University | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1988–1990 | FC St. Pauli | ||
| 1990–1993 | Werder Bremen | 0 | (0) |
| 1993–1994 | Schalke 04 | 6 | (0) |
| 1994 | Rosenborg | 0 | (0) |
| 1995–1996 | Kickers Emden | ||
| 1996–1998 | VfL Wolfsburg | 41 | (5) |
| 1998–2003 | Dallas Burn | 163 | (16) |
| 2003–2004 | Dallas Sidekicks (indoor) | 9 | (2) |
| 2004 | DFW Tornados | 4 | (0) |
| 2004 | Charleston Battery | 0 | (0) |
| 2012 | Dallas Sidekicks (2012) | 0 | (0) |
| National team | |||
| 1993–2000 | United States | 18 | (1) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Chad Deering (born September 2, 1970, in Garland, Texas) is a retired American soccer player. Deering spent his professional career in Germany, Norway, Major League Soccer and Major Indoor Soccer League. He earned eighteen caps with the United States national team including one game in the 1998 FIFA World Cup.
Deering grew up in Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas, where he attended Plano Senior High School. He was twice selected as a Parade 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 Men's Soccer Championship. However, he left Indiana after only two seasons in order to pursue a professional career in Germany, having scored twelve goals and assisted on twelve 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 three goals and one assist.
Deering began his professional career with the SV Werder Bremen reserve team. After three years and no chance of playing for the Bremen first team, Deering moved to FC Schalke 04 in 1993 where he continued to languish playing for Schalke's amateur squad. In 1994, Deering played a single season 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 Kickers 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 fifteen games for Wolfsburg in its first year in the German top division.
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