1. Jonathan Steele was born on 7 February 1986 and is a Northern Irish professional footballer.
25 Facts About Jonny Steele
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Jonny Steele has received three caps for the Northern Ireland national team.
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Jonny Steele was raised in a Catholic family along with three brothers in the predominantly Protestant town of Larne, about 25 miles outside of Belfast.
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Jonny Steele often experienced religious violence and persecution resulting from The Troubles, including being attacked outside of a video rental store.
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Jonny Steele started his career with Wolverhampton Wanderers in England between 2002 and 2004.
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Jonny Steele moved to the United States in 2003, for an ultimately unsuccessful trial with the Dallas Burn of Major League Soccer.
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Jonny Steele played thirteen games before the Comets placed him on the inactive roster to allow him to compete with the Northern Ireland U-19 national team.
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Jonny Steele returned to the United States in 2005 and spent the summer with the Rochester Rhinos.
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Jonny Steele returned home to Northern Ireland in August 2005 and had a short spell with Irish League side Ballymena United, before returning to America when his short-term contract expired.
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Jonny Steele won the 2006 MISL Championship with the Blast, and played for the Rhinos again in the summer of 2006.
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Jonny Steele was the first pick of the expansion Orlando Sharks in the 2007 MISL Expansion Draft, but was traded to the Philadelphia KiXX in exchange for Gaston Pernia.
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Jonny Steele was a key part of a team which took the USL-1 championship and was named the 2008 USL-1 MVP.
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On 23 December 2009, Jonny Steele signed a one-year contract with Vancouver Whitecaps.
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On 23 February 2012 Jonny Steele tweeted that he had joined Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer, a club from which he spurned a contract offer two years earlier in favour of joining the Vancouver Whitecaps.
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Jonny Steele's option was declined by Salt Lake on 3 December 2012 as part of a salary cap issue, along with the trade and release of six other players, including starters Jamison Olave, Fabian Espindola, and Will Johnson.
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Jonny Steele signed with the Major League Soccer club on 20 February 2013 and solidified his spot in the starting line-up.
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Jonny Steele ended his first season with New York making 36 official appearances and scoring 6 goals, while the team finished with the best overall record in MLS, winning the Supporter's Shield, the first major honor in club history.
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In 2014, Jonny Steele made 16 appearances, scoring one goal and recording 2 assists, but only started 7 matches.
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Three days after parting ways with the Red Bulls, it was confirmed that Jonny Steele had signed for the Newcastle Jets of the A-League in Australia.
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Jonny Steele signed a contract with Ottawa Fury FC on 12 January 2016.
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Jonny Steele moved again on 14 July 2016, this time to NASL side Miami FC.
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Jonny Steele was released by Ramsgate on 21 October 2019.
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Jonny Steele represented Northern Ireland from the Under-15 to the Under-19 level.
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Seven months later, Jonny Steele received his first call up to the senior squad for a friendly against Turkey to be played on 15 November 2013 in Adana after originally being left out of the squad again because of expected club commitments.
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In May 2014, Jonny Steele was again called up for the friendly away matches against Uruguay and Chile on 30 May and 4 June respectively as the opposition prepared for the 2014 FIFA World Cup.