Jan borenstein biography

Jonathan Bornstein

American soccer player

Jonathan Rey Bornstein (born November 7, 1984) is an American former professional soccer player who plays as a left-back. He has captained and made 38 appearances for the United States national team. In addition to also playing for Chivas USA in Major League Soccer (with whom he was the 2006 MLS Rookie of the Year, an MLS Best XI, and a two-time MLS All-Star), he has played in Liga MX and in the Israeli Premier League. He won a silver medal with Team USA at the 2005 Maccabiah Games, in Israel.

Youth and college

Bornstein attended Los Alamitos High School, where he played soccer for all four years.[2] He was MVP of the Sunset League, first-team all-county, and All-California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), and led the soccer team to a CIF Championship.[3] He also played club soccer for Long Beach United, Beach Soccer Club, and the Irvine Strikers club team coached by Don Ebert. He won the Golden Boot Award as he led the Strikers to the US Youth Soccer 2002 Under-17 National Championship.[3]&

Sam Borenstein died prematurely in 1969, largely unappreciated in Canada, but his legacy has grown formidably in the years since. We paid homage to him with a non-selling retrospective exhibition in 1978. Borenstein's daughter, Joyce Borenstein, produced an outstanding documentary, The Colours of My Father, 1992, which was nominated for a Hollywood Academy Award. Sam Borenstein has subsequently been celebrated with a solo retrospective exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 2005–2006, an exhibition that traveled to three provinces and included stops in Toronto and Sackville, NB. His paintings also featured prominently in the Jewish Painters of Montreal exhibition at the McCord Museum/The Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in 2008. Most recently, he was also honoured with a solo retrospective at the Yeshiva University Museum, 2011, in New York City.


Recently, a street in one of Montreal's residential developments has been named after Borenstein. Place Sam-Borenstein is in the borough of Ville St. Laurent. It is the latest addition to the

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