1. Fredy Montero was the all-time top scorer for the Seattle Sounders until being surpassed by Raul Ruidiaz in 2024.
47 Facts About Fredy Montero
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Fredy Montero scored 79 goals with the club across two stints: from 2009 to 2012, and from 2021 to 2023.
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Fredy Montero began playing youth soccer at Deportivo Cali at age six.
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Fredy Montero earned his professional debut at age 18 in 2005 before being sent on loan to Academia for the season.
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Fredy Montero was loaned to Atletico Huila for two additional years, becoming the league topscorer in the 2007 Torneo Apertura before returning to Deportivo Cali and becoming league top scorer for a second time in the 2008 Torneo Finalizacion.
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Fredy Montero was loaned to the Major League Soccer expansion team Seattle Sounders in 2009, where he was named Newcomer of the Year and led the team in goals.
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Fredy Montero was sold to the Sounders in 2010 and became a Designated Player and a permanent resident of the United States.
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Fredy Montero played for a number of years in Portugal at Sporting CP; across two stints from 2013 to 2016 and 2018 to 2019, he netted 43 goals across all competitions for Os Leoes.
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Fredy Montero played in Canada for Vancouver Whitecaps and in China for Tianjin TEDA.
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Fredy Montero was loaned to Atletico Huila in 2006, where he was named top goalscorer of the 2007 Apertura, tied on 13 goals with Sergio Galvan Rey.
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Fredy Montero was acquired by Seattle Sounders in January 2009 on loan from Deportivo Cali.
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Fredy Montero adapted well to the club, scoring nine goals in nine preseason games.
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Fredy Montero made his MLS debut on 19 March 2009, in the 2009 season opener against New York Red Bulls, and scored the first and third goals in club history.
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Fredy Montero was named the MLS Player of the Week for the first week of the 2009 MLS season for his two goals.
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An additional goal against Real Salt Lake helped Fredy Montero be named MLS Player of the Month for March 2009 as he won the first two Goals of the Week.
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Fredy Montero later dismissed a rumor of a transfer to Fulham and told the press that he was focused on the Sounders.
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Fredy Montero was selected to the 2009 MLS All-Star Game against Everton and played during the first half alongside teammates Kasey Keller and Jhon Kennedy Hurtado.
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Fredy Montero would go on to be named the MLS Newcomer of the Year.
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Fredy Montero did not meet the high expectations of coach Schmid and the fans at the beginning of the 2010.
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Fredy Montero was left out of the starting lineup for the ninth game of the year.
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Fredy Montero earned his second career MLS Player of the Month in July 2010.
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Fredy Montero totaled 12 goals, of which 6 were game-winners, and 11 assists in all competitions.
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Fredy Montero was named as the top player in the MLS "24 Under 24" list, which honors players under 24 years old who perform well in MLS.
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On 1 December 2010, Seattle Sounders FC announced that Fredy Montero had agreed to a contract extension with his rights permanently transferred to the club and Major League Soccer.
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Fredy Montero became the third Designated Player and the highest paid player on the team with a base salary of $500,000.
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Fredy Montero ended the regular season of league play with 12 goals.
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Fredy Montero ended the year with 18 goals in all competitions.
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Fredy Montero's goals scoring efforts made him the MLS player who scored the most goals across all competitive match in 2011.
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Fredy Montero was named Player of the Tournament after scoring three game-winning goals in the final three games.
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Fredy Montero was officially loaned to Colombian champions Millonarios, playing in the Categoria Primera A, on 21 January 2013, signing a multi-year extension to his contract with the Sounders.
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Fredy Montero was loaned to Primeira Liga side Sporting CP on 22 July 2013 for US$1.2 million with an option to buy.
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On 30 January 2014, it was announced that Fredy Montero had signed a four-and-a-half-year deal with Sporting for an additional $1.55 million transfer fee plus bonuses.
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On 15 February 2017, Fredy Montero transferred to Major League Soccer side Vancouver Whitecaps on loan from Chinese Super League side Tianjin TEDA.
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On 17 January 2018, it was announced that Fredy Montero had returned to Sporting CP on an 18-month contract.
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On 15 February 2019, Fredy Montero and Sporting agreed to mutually terminate his contract with the club.
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Fredy Montero had expressed a desire to return to the Seattle area and retire as a Sounder, while the club were in need of a new forward to replace the injured Jordan Morris.
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Fredy Montero retook the all-time scoring record for the Sounders in April 2021, surpassing Clint Dempsey, and ended the season with two goals.
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Fredy Montero returned on a new deal before the 2022 season.
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Fredy Montero has expressed interest in returning to the national team but has failed to receive a call-up.
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Fredy Montero is the oldest of four children and has two sisters, Jaynne Jr.
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Fredy Montero married his girlfriend Alexis Immig, a Gig Harbor native, during a private ceremony in April 2012.
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Fredy Montero was named MLS Humanitarian of the Month for March 2011 after raising over $29,000 to donate towards relief for victims of the 2010 Colombian floods.
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Fredy Montero threw out first pitch for the Seattle Mariners baseball team against the Cleveland Indians on 21 August 2012, shortly after honoring Felix Hernandez's perfect game in his goal celebration against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC.
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Fredy Montero was the subject of an episode of the MLS 36 documentary series that debuted on 10 August 2012.
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The episode revealed that his dog is named FIFA and that Fredy Montero is a fan of EA Sports' FIFA video game franchise.
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Fredy Montero gained permanent residency in the United States in 2010.
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Fredy Montero is a part-owner of Santo Coffee Company, a coffeeshop in Seattle's Roosevelt neighborhood that opened in 2019.