Daniel Harry Lovitz (born August 27, 1991) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for Major League Soccer club Nashville SC.
Club career
Early career
Lovitz grew up playing youth soccer in Eastern
Pennsylvania for Lower Merion Soccer Club Velez.
He played high school soccer for Germantown Academy followed by four years of college soccer at
Elon University, making 80 appearances, scoring nine goals and added 16 assists.
In 2010, Lovitz was named to the Southern Conference all-freshman team.
While at college, Lovitz also appeared for USL PDL club Carolina Dynamo during their 2012 and 2013 season's.
Toronto FC
On January 16, 2014, Lovitz was drafted in the second round (24th overall) of the 2014 MLS SuperDraft by
Toronto FC.
He was loaned to Toronto's
USL Championship affiliate Wilmington Hammerheads in March 2014 along with
Quillan Roberts and
Manny Aparicio. Lovitz made his professional debut in a 0–0 draw with
Penn FC on April 5, 2014.
The following week Lovitz scored his first goal against Pittsburgh Riverhounds in a 4–3 away victory.
On December 12, Lovitz was selected by New York City FC in the 2014 MLS Expansion Draft. However, hours later Toronto announced that they had re-acquired Lovitz from New York in exchange for allocation money.
In 2015, Lovitz made 11 appearances, starting three for Toronto FC.
Montreal Impact
On February 28, 2017, Daniel Lovitz signed with the Montreal Impact.
Nashville SC
On November 19, 2019, Lovitz was traded to
Nashville SC in exchange for $50,000 in General Allocation Money and $50,000 in Targeted Allocation Money.
International career
He made his debut for the United States national team on January 27, 2019, in a friendly against Panama, as a starter.
He was also named to the 2019 Gold Cup squad, and continued to feature at left back for the United States national team throughout 2019.
Despite this, Lovitz has received criticism for his performance for the national team, referring to his talent and technical ability to play at the international level.
All 13 of his national team appearances came in 2019.
Career statistics
Club
| + Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
!rowspan="2" | Club
!rowspan="2" | Season
!colspan="3" | League
!colspan="2" | National cup
!colspan="2" | Other
!colspan="2" | Total |
|
| 0 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
|
| 1 |
| 0 |
| 0 |
| 1 |
| 0 |
|
| MLS | 1 |
| 2021 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| 2022 | 31 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 35 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
|
|
International
| + Appearances and goals by national team and year
!National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals |
| United States | 0 |
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Source: US Soccer
Honors
Montreal Impact
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Canadian Championship: 2019
Nashville SC
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