# Bryan Jordan > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bryan_Jordan > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Bryan_Jordan.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Jordan > Source revision: 1330923447 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) **Bryan Philip Jordan** (born September 13, 1985) is an American former [soccer](/source/Soccer) player. ## Career ### Youth and college Jordan graduated from [Temple City High School](/source/Temple_City_High_School) in [Temple City, California](/source/Temple_City,_California) (the same school as US men's national team veteran [Jimmy Conrad](/source/Jimmy_Conrad)) in 2003, having registered 46 goals and 28 assists in his career, and set the school record for goals with 22 in his senior year. At [Oregon State University](/source/Oregon_State_University), Jordan was an invaluable member of the Beavers' strike force, appearing in over 50 games since 2003, and being named to the Pac-10 All-Academic first team in both 2004 and 2005. ### Professional During his college years Jordan played for the [San Fernando Valley Quakes](/source/San_Fernando_Valley_Quakes) in the [USL Premier Development League](/source/USL_Premier_Development_League), before being picked up by [Portland Timbers](/source/Portland_Timbers_(2001%E2%80%9310)) of the [USL First Division](/source/USL_First_Division) prior to their 2007 campaign. Jordan scored five goals in 26 appearances for the Timbers, helping them to the semi-finals of the USL-1 playoffs. Jordan had been on trial with [Los Angeles Galaxy](/source/Los_Angeles_Galaxy) during the club's pre-season, featuring in the inaugural [Pan-Pacific Championship](/source/Pan-Pacific_Championship) in Hawaii, and featuring on their Asian tour in China and Hong Kong. Having impressed Galaxy coach [Ruud Gullit](/source/Ruud_Gullit) with his performances, Jordan signed a full professional contract with Galaxy on March 26, 2008.[1] He made his MLS debut on May 10, 2008, coming on as an 83rd-minute substitute for [Joe Franchino](/source/Joe_Franchino) in Galaxy's 2–1 loss to the [New York Red Bulls](/source/New_York_Red_Bulls), and made his first start (and scored his first goal) on 6 September 2008, against [Real Salt Lake](/source/Real_Salt_Lake). Also during 2008 Jordan was loaned out to the [Portland Timbers](/source/Portland_Timbers_(2001%E2%80%9310)) of the [USL First Division](/source/USL_First_Division) for part of the season.[2] Jordan remained with Galaxy from 2008 and signed a new contract with the club on December 23, 2011.[3] At the end of the 2012 season, Los Angeles declined its 2013 contract option on Jordan and he chose to enter the [2012 MLS Re-Entry Draft](/source/2012_MLS_Re-Entry_Draft). On December 14, 2012, Jordan was selected by [San Jose Earthquakes](/source/San_Jose_Earthquakes) in stage two of the draft.[4] In August 2013 Jordan signed with the German club [BSV Schwarz-Weiß Rehden](/source/BSV_Schwarz-Wei%C3%9F_Rehden).[5] ## International Jordan made one appearance for the [United States U-23 national team](/source/United_States_men's_national_under-23_soccer_team) in a [Toulon Tournament](/source/2008_Toulon_Tournament) match against [Ivory Coast](/source/Ivory_Coast_national_under-23_football_team).[6] ## Honors ### Los Angeles Galaxy - **[MLS Cup](/source/MLS_Cup) (2):** [2011](/source/2011_Major_League_Soccer_season), [2012](/source/2012_Major_League_Soccer_season) - **[Major League Soccer](/source/Major_League_Soccer) Supporters' Shield (2):** [2010](/source/2010_Major_League_Soccer_season), [2011](/source/2011_Major_League_Soccer_season) ## References 1. [Los Angeles Galaxy: News: Article](http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20080325&content_id=145314&vkey=pr_lag&fext=.jsp&team=t106) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080401145325/http://la.galaxy.mlsnet.com/news/team_news.jsp?ymd=20080325&content_id=145314&vkey=pr_lag&fext=.jsp&team=t106) April 1, 2008 at the Wayback Machine 1. ["United Soccer Leagues (USL)"](https://web.archive.org/web/20081003113914/http://usl1.uslsoccer.com/home/253971.html). Archived from [the original](http://usl1.uslsoccer.com/home/253971.html) on 2008-10-03. Retrieved 2008-06-05. 1. ["LA Galaxy Re-sign Three Players Ahead of 2012 Season | LA Galaxy"](https://web.archive.org/web/20120110042451/http://www.lagalaxy.com/news/2011/12/la-galaxy-re-sign-three-players-ahead-2012-season). Archived from [the original](http://www.lagalaxy.com/news/2011/12/la-galaxy-re-sign-three-players-ahead-2012-season) on 2012-01-10. 1. ["Califf, Casey among 14 picked in Stage 2 Re-Entry Draft | MLSsoccer.com"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121216155205/http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/12/14/total-14-players-selected-stage-2-mls-re-entry-draft). Archived from [the original](http://www.mlssoccer.com/news/article/2012/12/14/total-14-players-selected-stage-2-mls-re-entry-draft) on 2012-12-16. 1. ["Beckhams Kumpel kommt"](http://www.kreiszeitung.de/sport/lokalsport/bsv-rehden/beckhams-kumpel-kommt-3035173.html). August 2013. 1. ["U-21 Ivory Coast - U-21 USA 1:0 - FOOTIESTATS.NET"](http://www.footiemag.de/matches_25462_u-21%20ivory%20coast_vs_u-21%20usa_23-05-2008.html). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20080526090204/http://www.footiemag.de:80/matches_25462_u-21%20ivory%20coast_vs_u-21%20usa_23-05-2008.html) 2008-05-26 at the Wayback Machine. 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