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name: Mike Chabala
position: D height: 6-0 weight:175 Birthdate: May 24, 1984 Hometown: Fresno, CA last club: Portland (USL) |
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| Regular Season Stats | full bio l year-by-year stats l video highlights |
| year | club | gp | gs | min | g | a | sht | sog | fc | fs | c | ej |
| 2009 | Houston | 15 | 12 | 1,044 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Career | 15 | 12 | 1,044 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | |
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Outlook
Fourth-year outside back who earned increased playing time with the first team last year.
MLS Experience
2008: Reserves: Regular at left back for the league champion reserve squad … Notched two goals and two assists … Open Cup: Played all 120 minutes at Charleston on 7/1 … SuperLiga: Made first non-Open Cup appearance vs. Atlante on 7/12, coming on as a sub in 4-0 win … Champions League: Appeared in three games, including both Dynamo wins … Played all 90 minutes at right back vs. San Francisco on 10/7 … Went the distance at left back in 1-1 tie at Firpo on 10/28 and 1-0 win vs. Firpo on 11/26. 2007: Reserves: Regular contributor to the reserve team who started 10 of the team's 12 games … Open Cup: Started and played the full 120 minutes in the Dynamo's 1-0 loss at Charleston on 7/10. 2006: Reserves: Started all 12 games, playing the second most on the squad with 1,056 minutes … Had a team-high six assists … Reserve team finished third in overall standings.
College
Attended University of Washington … NSCAA third team All-American, first team All-Far West Region and second team All-Pac 10 in 2004 … Honorable mention All-Pac 10 and Pac-10 All-Academic honorable mention in 2003.
Amateur
Played at Clovis West High School and was league MVP … Won the Valley championship his senior season … Club: Won state and regional championships in 2005 with Colorado Rush … Played for Ballistic United, won Northern Premier League and State Premier League titles (2001-02) … Central California Heat (1998-99) and Cyclone Club (1993-97) … ODP All-America team (1994).
Youth Club
Fresno Cyclone, coached by David Linenberger; Ballistic United; Austria Memphis, coached by Tom Evans; Colorado Rush, coached by Tim Schultz.
Personal
Began playing soccer when he was 4 years old … Traveled on a team trip to Europe as an 8-year-old … Lists "Gladiator" as his favorite movie … If not playing soccer, he would be playing on the PGA Tour or working on Wall Street … Lists snowboarding, golf, and politics among his hobbies … Favorite athletes are Tiger Woods and Brazilian midfielder Kaká … Favorite music genres are indie rock and techno … Majored in economics at Washington and graduated in three and a half years.

