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Joshua Christopher 'Josh' Simpson (born May 15, 1983) is a retired Canadian soccer player. During a career that included stops in England, Germany, Turkey, and Switzerland, he earned 43 caps for Canada before retiring after being unable to recover from a leg injury.〔http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2015/05/21/canadian-exports-complications-injury-permanently-sideline-former-canadian-i〕 ==Club career== Born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Simpson started his career on a soccer scholarship with the University of Portland. In 2004, Simpson spent time with Boulder Rapids Reserve in the USL Premier Development League where he was named to the PDL all conference team.〔http://pdl.uslsoccer.com/honors/79546.html〕 Shortly after, he and fellow Canadian Adrian Serioux signed with Millwall. He made his debut against Plymouth Argyle. On May 23, 2006, he signed a three-year contract with German team 1. FC Kaiserslautern〔(Josh Simpson – Der Betze brennt )〕 and left the club on 25 June 2009 to sign with Turkish club Manisaspor.〔(Simpson verlässt den FCK )〕 Simpson scored his first hat-trick in a 3-0 home victory on September 26, 2010 vs. Sivasspor. On 22 February 2011, Simpson signed a new three-year contract with Manisa, keeping him at the club until the end of the 2013–14 season.〔(Simpson 2014'e kadar 'Tarzan' ) sporx.com , accessed 22 February 2011〕 Simpson had his best professional season in 2010-11 with Manisapor leading the team with 12 goals and taking his team to tenth place. Simpson was tied for seventh in goals along with Jajá and Olcan Adın in the Süper Lig. Simpson made his debut for the 2011/12 season as a second half sub for Ariza Makukula against Trabzonspor on September 10, Manisaspor was tailing by a goal until Simpson scored the tying goal in the 88th minute.〔(Manisaspor vs. Trabzonspor ) – Soccerway〕 Following his second goal of the season against Fenerbahçe in a 2-1 loss January 16, 2012, it was announced the following day that Simpson had terminated his contract with the team over unpaid wages.〔(Josh Simpson Terminates Contract with Manisaspor ) – Canadian Soccer News〕 On January 19, 2012 Simpson signed for BSC Young Boys on a three-and-a-half year deal.〔(Canada midfielder Simpson joins Swiss Club Young Boys ) – TSN〕 Simpson made his Young Boys debut on February 12 as a second half sub for David Degen in a 1-0 victory over FC Sion. On May 23 the last game of the season against FC Basel, Simpson sustained a broken leg that was initially expected to keep him out for 3 months forcing him to miss the next round of international games for Canada after being called up the previous week.〔(Canadian international Josh Simpson suffers broken leg ) – CBC〕 However, the injury turned out to be far more serious, which was described by the FC Young Boys website as a “terrible moment for the audience (Basel to witness ).” He retired in May 2015 after failing to recover.〔(Simpson works on comeback in soccer after devastating injury )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Josh Simpson (Canadian soccer)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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