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name: Jon Busch
position: GK height: 5-10 weight:165 Birthdate: August 18, 1976 Hometown: Albany, NY last club: Columbus (MLS) |
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| Regular Season Stats | full bio l year-by-year stats l video highlights |
| year | club | gp | gs | min | shts | svs | ga | gaa | pg | pa | w | l | t |
| 2009 | Chicago | 30 | 30 | 2,700 | 10 | 103 | 34 | 1.13 | 5 | 5 | 11 | 7 | 12 |
| Career | 147 | 146 | 13,190 | 46 | 607 | 176 | 1.20 | 21 | 25 | 60 | 43 | 42 | |
| Most Recent Video Highlights |
| date | clubs | video description |
| 05/31/09 | FC Dallas @ Fire |
 Busch lucha con todo ante Dallas
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| 05/31/09 | FC Dallas @ Fire |
Busch save reel
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| 05/24/09 | Fire @ Red Bulls |
Jon Busch save reel
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A veteran goalkeeper with experience gained through eight years in Major League Soccer and five years in the United Soccer Leagues, Jon Busch once again took the starting position in the net for the 2009 season and made the most of his opportunity. Busch was the only Fire player to start and play 90 minutes in every regular season match and earned a goals-against average of 1.13 and 10 shutouts (tied for second best in league trailing only Zach Thornton (12)). In 2008, Busch earned the honor of MLS Goalkeeper of the Year and was named the 2008 Chicago Fire MVP. Participated in the first national team training camps of 2009 in advance of a friendly against Sweden and a World Cup Qualifier against Mexico.
Busch has championship-winning familiarity, guiding his former club to a Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup championship in 2002 and a league-record 18-game unbeaten run in 2004. Busch still remains the Crew's all-time saves leader (367) and ranks first in games played (84), games started (83), and minutes played (7,520).
MLS Experience
2009: Only Fire player to start and play 90 min. in every MLS game for the Fire this season …made 103 saves on 136 shots faced…shares a Fire Single Season Shutout record with 10 shutouts, shared with Matt Pickens (10, 2007).. made second most career saves (132 svs in 2004)…2009 Shutouts:4/5 vs. NY, 5/16 @ TOR, 5/24 @ NY, 7/11 vs. COL, 7/18 vs. CLB, 7/25 @ SEA, 8/01 vs. RSL, 8/16 @ KC, 10/17 @ NE, and 10/22 vs. CHV…Posted third best GA Average in Team history in 2009.2008: Named 2008 MLS Goalkeeper of the Year … named as 2008 Fire MVP … only Fire player to start and play 90 min. in every MLS game for the Fire this season (30 games, 2700 min.)…posted second best goals-against average (1.1) allowing just 33 goals in 30 games…tied for a league best 10 shutouts…made 122 saves on 156 shots faced for the league's best saves percentage (78.2%)… shares a Fire Single Season Shutout record with 10 shutouts, shared with Matt Pickens (10, 2007)..saved a penalty kick on 10/18 vs. TOR…made second most career saves (132 svs in 2004)…2008 Shutouts: 5/08 at D.C., 4/03 vs. NE, 4/12 at SJ 5/03 at NE, and 6/28vs.SJ, 7/19 vs. RSL, 7/27 at KC, 8/2 vs. CHV, 8/22 at LA., 9/6 vs. NY… MLS Cup Playoffs: posted shutouts in both games against NE in the Eastern Conference Final…allowed two goals in Conference Final… Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: Played 120 min. at DC in 2-1 USOC quarterfinal loss on 7/8…Played 120 min. vs. CLB in 3-2 USOC win on 6/10…International Exhibitions: Played first 45 min. vs. Everton in 2-0 win.
2007: Started and played full 90 minutes in three Fire first team league matches … Recorded first league win and shutout of 2007 with the Fire on 8-25 vs. KC … Has seven saves in 3-0 loss on 8-22 at KC … Made 2007 debut at Los Angeles in a 2-0 loss on 7-04 … Recorded a 1-0 shutout in 2007 Fire first team debut vs. Cracovia in an international friendly on 6-22 at TOYOTA PARK … MLS Cup Playoffs: Did Not Play Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: Started and played 90 minutes, making four saves in 1-0 loss against the Carolina RailHawks in Cary N.C. … Reserve Division: Started and played in 11 matches … posted a goals against average of 1.53 and an overall record of 2-6-3.
2006: Started and played eight games with Columbus, registering 715 minutes of first team action … Posted 3-3-2 record with a 1.13 goals against average and three shutouts … Second straight season ended early due to another knee injury suffered on 5-26 vs. D.C. United … Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: Did Not Play … Reserve Division: Did Not Play.
2005: Posted a 3-5-1 record in nine games played and started and a 1.65 GAA for the Crew, with all of his wins being shutouts ... Won MLS Player of the Week for the week ending on 4-18 … Awarded the Crew's 2005 U.S. Soccer Federation Humanitarian of the Year honor … His season ended prematurely when he tore his right ACL just before halftime at L.A. Galaxy on 5-25, just nine games into the season … Reserve Division: Did Not Play.
2004: Established himself as one of the league's premier keepers, going 12-5-12 with a club-record 1.07 GAA in 29 starts, and was an Eastern Conference All-Star for the first time ... Posted 10 shutouts, which was a new Crew single-season record (Brad Friedel had eight in 1997) ... Tied Mark Dougherty for the club's single-game saves record, with 12, 8-24 at MetroStars ... Set an MLS record for catches/punches in a game, with 16 on 7-10 at Dallas … Was named MLS Player of the Month for September … Entered season with an active 17-game unbeaten streak (8-0-9) … MLS Cup Playoffs: Started both matches of Columbus's Eastern Conference Semifinal Series vs. New England, going 0-1-1 with a 1.00 GAA … Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: Started both games, a 2-1 win over Syracuse (A-League) on 6-30 in Round of 32 and a 2-1 OT loss to Chicago on 7-20 in the Round of 16, making 13 saves.
2003: Started 24 matches and compiled a 9-8-6 record, 1.44 GAA and four shutouts ... Made a career-high 11 saves in a 2-2 tie vs. Chicago on 8-13 … Made six saves in shutting out the MetroStars, 1-0, on 4-12 ... Recorded three saves in a 2-0 shutout win over Colorado on 5-10 … Stopped six shots in shutting out S.J., 1-0, on 6-07 ... Made six saves in a 1-0 shutout win over K.C. on 8-31 … Missed five games with a severely sprained right ankle suffered on 6-21 at S.J. ... Returned to the lineup, from the ankle injury, 8-09 at L.A. and made eight saves in a 3-1 setback … Had a four-game unbeaten streak from 8-23-9-13 (3-0-1) ... 2003 CONCACAF Champions Cup: Started three of the Crew's four matches in the competition ... Compiled a 1-2-0 record and a 2.67 GAA, with one shutout ... Blanked Deportivo Arabe Unido (Panama), 3-0, in the second leg of the Round 16 on 3-23 at Crew Stadium.
2002: Appeared in 14 matches, starting 13 of them ... Went 8-3-2 with a 1.09 GAA and five shutouts, to earn the team's Defender of the Year award ... Finished second in the league in GAA, just two 100,000ths of a point behind L.A.'s Kevin Hartman ... Earned a shutout in his first MLS start, a 1-0 win over D.C. United on 4-27 ... Recorded back-to-back shutouts on 8-18 (4-0 at K.C.) and 8-31 (0-0 vs. N.E.) ... Saved two penalty kicks in as many opportunities, 7-31 at the MetroStars (Diallo) and 9-14 vs. Chicago (Stoitchkov) ... Made his MLS debut on 4-20 vs. N.E., entering in the 59th minute and making one save ... Went the distance in net, making two saves, in Columbus's 7-2 exhibition win over FC Nurnberg of the German Bundesliga on 5-15 ... MLS Cup Playoffs: Played every minute of all five matches, going 2-1-2 with a 0.96 GAA, as the Crew advanced to the MLS Cup Semifinals ... Made a career-high eight saves 9-25 at S.J. ... Earned his first MLS post-season shutout in semifinal Game 1 at N.E. on 10-06 ... Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup: Played every minute of the Crew's run to the Open Cup title, going 4-0 with a 0.71 GAA and two shutouts in four starts … Made four saves to shut out L.A., 1-0, in the final … Made five saves in a 3-0 shutout win over Richmond (A-League) in the Round of 16.
Professional Experience
Spent five seasons in the Division II A-League, from 1997-2001 ... 2001: Led the Hershey Wildcats to the A-League National Championship match, where they fell, 2-0, to perennial power Rochester ... Was named A-League Goalkeeper of the Year and was selected the Division II circuit's first-team All-League keeper ... Played in all but one game, going 14-7-2 with a league-best 0.60 goals-against average and 13 shutouts ... Made the A-League Team of the Week twice ... The backbone of the league's top defense, which yielded a league-low 20 goals (Busch allowed just 15 of those) ... Went 3-1 in the Wildcats' playoff run, allowing just the two goals in the final after three successive shutouts ... 2000: Started to garner attention, finishing his final season with Hampton Roads with a 0.94 GAA in 14 games, coming up short of the minutes-played requirement for a third-place finish among the league leaders ... 1999: His second with Hampton Roads, he was named the Mariners' team MVP after going 13-10-0 with a 1.38 GAA ... Was named to the A-League Team of the Week once ... 1998: Went 15-12-0, with eight shutouts, for the Hampton Roads Mariners ... Was named to the A-League Team of the Week once ... 1997: His rookie professional season was split between the Worcester Wildfire and the Carolina Dynamo of the A-League, after being drafted by the Nashville Metros in the first round (No. 2 overall) of the 1997 A-League draft.
International
Trained with US MNT in the first camp of 2009…named to the 18-man roster for US MNT friendly against Sweden but did not play…retained in camp in advance of World Cup Qualifier against Mexico…Earned his first cap with the U.S. Men's National team on 3-09-05, shutting out Colombia, 3-0 in a friendly in Fullerton, Calif. … Represented the U.S. at the U-17 and U-20 levels ... Played in the 1993 FIFA U-17 World Championships in Japan.
College
Attended the University of North Carolina-Charlotte ... Played three seasons for the 49ers (1994-96), leading them to the 1996 NCAA Men's College Cup, where they fell in the national semifinals ... Was a NSCAA First-Team All-America selection in 1996.
Personal
The son of Madeline and Robert Busch ... His father is a Lutheran Pastor... Married Nicole Blair on 12-11-04 ... Has an older brother, Matthew, and a younger sister, Jaime ... Obtained his "B" coaching license in January of 2003 ... Enjoys ice hockey and Ohio State athletics.
