André Hainault

André Hainault

Personal information
Full name	André Robert Hainault
Date of birth	(1986-06-17) June 17, 1986 (age 25)
Place of birth	Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec, Canada
Height	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Houston Dynamo
Number	31
Youth career
	Hudson Hawks
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2004–2005	Montreal Impact	3	(0)
2005–2008	SIAD Most	46	(1)
2008	→ Sparta Prague (loan)	2	(0)
2009–	Houston Dynamo	87	(6)
National team‡
2002–2003	Canada U17	14	(0)
2003–2005	Canada U20	18	(0)
2008	Canada U23	4	(0)
2006–	Canada	25	(2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of May 26, 2012. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of June 3, 2012

André Hainault (French pronunciation: [ɑ̃dʁe ɛno]; born June 17, 1986 in Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec) is a Canadian soccer player who currently plays for Houston Dynamo in Major League Soccer.

Club career

Czech League

Hainault began his professional career with Montreal Impact in the USL First Division in 2004, and played three competitive games for the team prior to signing with small Czech side SIAD Most. Hainault played there alongside former star striker Horst Siegl and made 46 appearances for Most in the Gambrinus liga and the Czech 2. Liga. He scored a game-winning goal for them in the 88th minute of his league debut against Slovácko in February 2006. He also spent a brief time on loan with Sparta Prague before returning to North America.

Major League Soccer

Houston Dynamo announced on April 14, 2009 that it has secured Hainault's international transfer certificate from Most; he had been training with the team throughout the 2009 pre-season. Hainault was signed to a standard four-year MLS contract and made a base salary of $55,125 in 2009.^[1] He made his MLS debut for Houston on May 3, 2009, coming on as a substitute for Wade Barrett in a game against New England Revolution^[2]

Hainault turned down a call-up for two 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification matches due to an important match-up against Portland Timbers on October 15, 2011. It turned out to be a major factor in the game with Hainault scoring his first goal of the season and opening goal of the game from a Brad Davis cross, Houston went on to a 2-0 away win clinching a play-off spot. Later in 2011, he scored the opening (and eventual winner) goal in a 2-0 win in the Eastern Conference Final of the 2011 MLS Cup Playoffs, sending the Dynamo to their first MLS Cup since 2007 ^[3]. Unfortunately Houston fell to Los Angeles Galaxy on November 20, 2011 in a 1-0 final, with a goal from Landon Donovan.^[4]

After an off-season with much speculation of a transfer to Bordeaux, Hainault remained in Houston scored the game winning goal over Chivas USA on the season opener March 11, 2012.^[5]

International career

Hainault played all 3 of Canada's matches at the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands. He made his senior debut for Canada in a November 2006 friendly match against Hungary. By December 2009, he had earned a total of 15 caps, scoring 1 goal. He has so far represented Canada in 3 FIFA World Cup qualification matches.^[6] On March 29, 2011 Hainault scored his second international goal from a Will Johnson corner kick in friendly versus Belarus.^[7]

International goals

Scores and results list Canada's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	11 October 2008	Estadio Olímpico, San Pedro Sula, Honduras	Honduras	1-1	1-3	2010 FIFA World Cup qualification
2	29 March 2011	İzmir Atatürk Stadium, Antalya, Turkey	Belarus	1-0	1-0	Friendly

Honors

Houston Dynamo

• Major League Soccer Eastern Conference Championship: 2011

See also

• List of current MLS players

References

External links

• Official website
• Player profile - MLSsoccer
• National Team profile - CanadaSoccer
• André Hainault at National-Football-Teams.com

Canada squads v t e Canada squad – 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship 1 Wagenaar 2 Ramalho 3 Ledgerwood 4 Hainault 5 Peetoom 6 Schiavoni 7 Peters 8 Rosenlund 9 Gyaki 10 Johnson 11 de Jong 12 O'Neill 13 Beaulieu-Bourgault 14 Edgar 15 Stewart 16 Lalli 17 Lombardo 18 Charowski 19 Begović 20 Giacomi 21 Kassaye Coach: Mitchell v t e Canada squad – 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup semi-finalists 1 Sutton 2 Braz 3 Jazić 4 Reda 5 Hainault 6 de Guzman 7 Stalteri 8 Harmse 9 Friend 10 Gerba 11 Hastings 12 Gervais 13 Hutchinson 14 De Rosario 15 Bernier 16 Nash 17 Hume 18 Nakajima 19 Ribeiro 20 Pozniak 21 Ledgerwood 22 Onstad 23 Giacomi Coach: Hart v t e Canada squad – 2009 CONCACAF Gold Cup 1 Sutton 2 Cann 3 Klukowski 4 Hainault 5 McKenna 6 de Guzman 7 Stalteri (c) 8 de Jong 9 Gerba 10 Johnson 11 Hastings 12 Nakajima-Farran 13 Hutchinson 14 Jaković 15 Simpson 16 Jackson 17 Peters 18 Wagenaar 19 Harmse 20 Bernier 21 Pozniak 22 Stamatopoulos 23 Gbeke Coach: Hart v t e Canada squad – 2011 CONCACAF Gold Cup 1 Hirschfeld 2 Ledgerwood 3 Klukowski 4 McKenna (c) 5 Hainault 6 de Guzman 7 Dunfield 8 Johnson 9 Friend 10 Gerba 11 Simpson 12 Pacheco 13 Hutchinson 14 De Rosario 15 Edgar 16 Ricketts 17 Jackson 18 Borjan 19 de Jong 20 Peters 21 Beaulieu-Bourgault 22 Al-Shaïbani 23 Nakajima-Farran Coach: Hart