Atiba Hutchinson
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Hutchinson playing for Beşiktaş in 2023 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Atiba Hutchinson | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 February 1983 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Brampton, Ontario, Canada | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Brampton YSC | |||||||||||||||||
| North Scarborough SC | |||||||||||||||||
| Woodbridge Strikers | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | York Region Shooters | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Toronto Lynx | 4 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Öster | 24 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Helsingborg | 49 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2006–2010 | Copenhagen | 139 | (22) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | PSV | 80 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2023 | Beşiktaş | 270 | (24) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 568 | (62) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2001–2003 | Canada U20 | 19 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Canada U23 | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2023 | Canada | 105 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Atiba Hutchinson (born 8 February 1983) is a former Canadian professional soccer player. Considered an iconic figure of North American soccer and a Canada soccer legend, with 105 international appearances in the span of 20 years he is the Canadian national team's record cap holder.
Hutchinson rose to prominence at F.C. Copenhagen as the first North American to become Danish Superliga Player of the Year. That same season, he won the first of six Canadian Player of the Year awards. He had a fairly uneventful spell with PSV Eindhoven between 2010 and 2013 and then spent the next 10 years at Beşiktaş in Turkey, retiring with cult hero status.
In 2012, as part of the Canadian Soccer Association's centennial celebration, he was named to the all-time Canadian men's XI. He served as a leader and pioneer for Canada's golden generation at the latter stages of his career.