Roy Miller (footballer)

Roy Miller Hernández (born November 24, 1984) is a Costa Rican footballer who plays for Saprissa and the Costa Rica national football team.

Roy Miller
Personal information
Full name Roy Miller Hernández
Date of birth (1984-11-24) November 24, 1984
Place of birth Limón, Costa Rica
Height 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)
Playing position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Saprissa
Youth career
2001–2003 Cartaginés
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2005 Cartaginés 34 (0)
2005–2007 Bodø/Glimt 52 (6)
2008–2009 Rosenborg 17 (0)
2009 → Örgryte (loan) 14 (0)
2010–2015 New York Red Bulls 125 (0)
2015 → New York Red Bulls II (loan) 1 (0)
2016–2017 Saprissa 48 (4)
2017–2018 Portland Timbers 27 (1)
2018 → Portland Timbers 2 (loan) 7 (0)
2019 Portland Timbers 2 13 (1)
2019– Saprissa 7 (0)
National team‡
2001 Costa Rica U17 4 (0)
2005– Costa Rica 59 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 March 2019
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 10 June 2014
This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Miller and the second or maternal family name is Hernández.

Career

Club

Miller began his career in the youth ranks of Cartaginés. In 2002, he went on trial with Argentine side Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, but was unable to acclimate himself to the club and returned to Costa Rica.[1]

Miller turned professional with Cartaginés before moving to the north of Norway at Bodø/Glimt along with his compatriot and teammate at Cartaginés, Randall Brenes.[2] He had a successful stay at Bodø/Glimt, appearing in 52 league matches and scoring 6 goals, leading to interest from top Norwegian side Rosenborg.

Miller playing for Bodø/Glimt

In February 2008 Miller signed a 3-year long contract with Rosenborg,[3] and quickly established himself as the team's starting left back. A knee injury curtailed his progress with Rosenborg, and upon returning to action, he was loaned out to Örgryte on 28 July 2009.[4] With Örgryte Miller played in the final 14 games of the 2009 Allsvenskan season. Miller was very appreciated by the Örgryte fans.

In January 2010, Miller signed a 2-year long contract with New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. On 20 March 2010, Miller started for Red Bulls in a 3–1 victory against Santos FC, which was the first match played at the new Red Bull Arena.[5] Miller made his Major League Soccer debut on 27 March 2010, playing the full 90 in New York's opening game of the 2010 MLS season against Chicago Fire that ended in a 1–0 victory for New York.[6] On October 21, 2010 Miller started for Red Bulls in a 2–0 victory over New England Revolution which clinched the regular season Eastern Conference title.[7]

Miller with teammate Chris Duvall

In December 2013 it was reported that Miller would be returning to Costa Rica to sign with top club Saprissa, however, Miller rejected the clubs offer and decided to renew his contract with New York.[8] Miller was limited to 17 league games during the 2013 season due to injuries and national team duty, however he was a part of the team that captured the club's first official title the MLS Supporters' Shield. In 2015, Miller was slowly phased out of the starting eleven due to the emergence of Jamaican leftback, Kemar Lawrence and missed a large portion of the season due to injuries as well. Miller won his second trophy with the club when they claimed the Supporter's Shield for the second time in three years. On November 30, 2015, the day after the Red Bulls were eliminated from the playoffs, it was reported that the club would not pick up Miller's option, ending his six-year tenure with the club.[9]

On December 28, 2015, Miller signed with Costa Rican club Saprissa.[10] In his first season at the club Miller appeared in 22 league matches and scored one goal. In his second season with the club he appeared in 26 matches scoring three goals, and helped Saprissa to the 2016 Torneo Invierno title.

On December 10, 2018, Miller was released by Portland Timbers after two seasons with the club.[11]

International

Miller was an unmovable player at youth levels with the Ticos. He played in the 2001 FIFA U-17 World Championship held in Trinidad & Tobago and the qualification rounds for the 2006 FIFA World Cup,[12] he was left out of the squad just a few weeks before the inaugural game's kick off.

Miller made his full debut for the Ticos in 2005 as a substitute against Ecuador, and has since then collected 52 more caps including two in the 2010 World Cup qualification playoffs against Uruguay and one in the 2014 FIFA World Cup.

International goals
Scores and results list. Costa Rica's goal tally first.
GoalDateVenueOpponentScoreResultCompetition
18 June 2013Estadio Nacional de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica Honduras1–01–02014 FIFA World Cup qualification
28 July 2015StubHub Center, Carson, California Jamaica1-12-22015 CONCACAF Gold Cup

Honors

Club
Rosenborg BK

New York Red Bulls

  • MLS Supporters' Shield: 2013, 2015

International
Costa Rica

Statistics
Club Season Primera División UNCAF Copa Interclubes CONCACAF Champions' Cup Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Cartaginés
 2003–04 18 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
2004–05 16 0 0 0 0 0 16 0
Club Total3400000340
Club Season Tippeligaen Norwegian Cup UEFA Europa League Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Bodø/Glimt
 2005 17 1 2 0 0 0 19 1
2006 17 3 3 1 0 0 20 4
2007 18 2 2 0 0 0 20 2
Club Total5267100597
Rosenborg
 2008 14 0 2 0 4 0 20 0
2009 3 0 3 1 3 0 9 1
Club Total1705170291
Club Season Allsvenskan Svenska Cupen UEFA Europa League Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Örgryte (loan)
 2009 14 0 - - - - 14 0
Club Total140----140
Club Season MLS U.S. Open Cup/MLS Cup CONCACAF Champions League Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
New York Red Bulls
 2010 25 0 4 0 0 0 29 0
2011 30 0 3 0 0 0 33 0
2012 24 0 2 0 - - 26 0
2013 17 0 1 0 - - 18 0
2014 23 0 3 0 1 0 27 0
2015 6 0 1 0 - - 7 0
Club Total1250140101400
New York Red Bulls II (loan)
 2015 1 0 - - - - 1 0
Club Season Primera División UNCAF Copa Interclubes CONCACAF Champions' Cup Total
App Goals App Goals App Goals App Goals
Saprissa
 2015–16 22 1 - - - - 22 1
2016–17 26 3 - - 4 0 30 3
Club Total4840040524
Career Totals2911026212032912
gollark: (also I may eventually want to use ARM)
gollark: On the one hand I do somewhat want to run osmarksforum™ with this for funlolz, but on the other hand handwritten ASM is probably not secure.
gollark: > Well, the answer is a good cause for flame war, but I will risk. ;) At first, I find assembly language much more readable than HLL languages and especially C-like languages with their weird syntax. > At second, all my tests show, that in real-life applications assembly language always gives at least 200% performance boost. The problem is not the quality of the compilers. It is because the humans write programs in assembly language very different than programs in HLL. Notice, that you can write HLL program as fast as an assembly language program, but you will end with very, very unreadable and hard for support code. In the same time, the assembly version will be pretty readable and easy for support. > The performance is especially important for server applications, because the program runs on hired hardware and you are paying for every second CPU time and every byte RAM. AsmBB for example can run on very cheap shared web hosting and still to serve hundreds of users simultaneously.
gollark: https://board.asm32.info/asmbb/asmbb-v2-9-has-been-released.328/
gollark: Huh, apparently some hugely apioformic entity wrote a bit of forum software entirely in assembly.

References
  1. "Miller Roy". Enunabaldosa.com. 20 December 2005. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  4. "Roy Miller deja Noruega y se pasa a Suecia". Nacion.com. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-12-15.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  6. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-27. Retrieved 2012-01-26.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  7. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-10-23. Retrieved 2010-10-17.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  8. Miller descarta Saprissa y se mantiene en Red Bulls - Everardoherrera.com (in Spanish)
  9. "Roy Miller, Dane Richards will not return to the Red Bulls". Empire of Soccer. Retrieved 18 September 2017.
  10. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-01-02. Retrieved 2016-01-10.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  11. https://www.timbers.com/post/2018/12/10/portland-timbers-announce-roster-status-ahead-2019-season
  12. Roy Miller – FIFA competition record
  13. "Mestvinnende" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 4 October 2009.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.