Alexandre Morfaw

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Alexandre Morfaw
Personal information
Full name Alexandre Morfaw
Date of birth (1987-08-31) 31 August 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Douala, Cameroon
Height 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1999 Bordeaux
2000–2005 Nantes
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2007 Nantes 0 (0)
2005–2007 → Nantes II (loan) 40 (5)
2007 Leicester City 0 (0)
2007–2008 Scunthorpe United 0 (0)
2008 → Lincoln City (loan) 0 (0)
2009–2010 Boden 30 (8)
2010 Vancouver Whitecaps 8 (0)
2011 Vancouver Whitecaps FC 2 (0)
2011 → Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 (loan) 12 (3)
International career
2007 Cameroon U-20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 October 2011

Alexandre Morfaw (born 31 August 1987) is a Cameroonian footballer who last played for Vancouver Whitecaps FC in Major League Soccer.

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Career

Youth and amateur

Morfaw was born in Douala, Cameroon, and grew up in Paris, France. He attended College Paul Bert, before moving with his family to Nantes in Brittany. He attended the Centre Educatif Nantais pour Sportifs, and spent a brief time with the academy at Bordeaux, before entering the youth system of Nantes in 2000.

Professional

Morfaw was called up to Nantes' senior squad in 2005. He scored four goals in 17 appearances for Nantes' reserves in the Championnat de France amateur (CFA) in 2005–2006, and scored one more goal in 23 appearances in 2006–2007, but never made a first team appearance for the club and was released prior to the beginning of the 2007–2008 season.

Morfaw signed a multi-year contract with English Football League Championship side Leicester City in the summer of 2007, but a change in manager resulted in Morfaw being released by the club before he played a game. Following a successful trial, he signed with Scunthorpe United in August 2007, but a preseason ankle injury restricted him to just six appearances with Scunthorpe's reserve side. He had a brief spell with Lincoln City in Football League Two in February 2008, and was released by Scunthorpe on 9 May 2008, again without having played a senior game for his parent club.

Morfaw moved north to Sweden and joined Bodens BK in February 2009. He scored eight goals in 22 appearances during his first season with the club, helping them achieve promotion from the fourth to the third tier of Swedish soccer. In 2010, playing in the Division 1 Norra, Morfaw started all but one of his eight appearances during his second season with Boden.

Morfaw left Boden in the summer of 2010 and relocated to Canada, signing with the Vancouver Whitecaps of the USSF Division 2 Professional League. [1] He made his Whitecaps debut on 5 September 2010 in a 0–0 tie with the Puerto Rico Islanders, [2] and made three regular season and three playoff appearances for the team before their semi-final loss to the Puerto Rico Islanders. [3]

He continued with Vancouver Whitecaps FC when the club moved to Major League Soccer in 2011. Morfaw signed with the now-MLS side on 17 March 2011. [4] Morfaw was waived by Vancouver on 23 November 2011. [5]

International

Morfaw has represented Cameroon at the U-20 level. He was part of the Cameroon squad which took part in the 2007 African Youth Championship, and helped the U-23 squad qualify for the 2008 Men's Olympic Football Tournament, but was unable to travel to compete in the Olympic Games due to injury.[ citation needed ]

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The 2007 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season was the club's 22nd year of existence, as well as their 15th as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of US-based soccer leagues. After their championship 2006 season despite a number of lingering injuries, the Whitecaps started well and led the league going undefeated until late May. However, with the sudden departure to England of starting goalkeeper Tony Caig and unexpected early season loss of Serge Djekanovic to MLS, the Whitecaps had goalkeeping instability as they gave significant minutes to four goalkeepers in 2007. Combined with injuries, the club never recovered from the challenging schedule due to 2007 FIFA U-20 venue conflicts, the team finished 7th in the USL-1, set a club record twelve game streak without a win, subsequently executed a blockbuster four player trade of 2006 USL MVP Joey Gjertsen, and midfielder David Testo for role players Ze Roberto and Surrey, BC native Alen Marcina, and set a club record for number of draws with twelve. A run of games at home to end the season in seventh place and the resolution of injuries left the Whitecaps competitive in the second season of the playoffs. They lost a close playoff series to rival Portland Timbers with a 1–0 home leg getting overturned in a much closer than the score indicated 3–0 second leg loss to finish their disappointing season. Coach Bob Lilley was released at the end of the playoffs before the LA Galaxy friendly.

The 2006 Vancouver Whitecaps FC season was the club's 21st year of existence, as well as their 14th as a Division 2 club in the franchise model of US-based soccer leagues. 2006 was Bob Lilley's second season as head coach, and they started the season with many draws while the team sorted itself out. In the last ten games after some player additions, the Whitecaps lost only two of their last ten games. In the playoffs Vancouver went on a run as the fourth seed. They first had a play-in round series against Miami FC Blues and Romário before upsetting regular season champion or Commissioner's Cup winner and Canadian rival Montreal Impact with two second half of overtime goals in the second leg away in La belle province. The first goal scorer was Eduardo Sebrango, a striker out of favour in Montreal in 2005 that Vancouver signed in the off season. In the single championship game at the regular season runner-up Rochester Rhinos' new home, PAETEC Park, the Whitecaps scored via an own goal just before half time and then put the game out of reach with two more goals to win 0 – 3.

References

  1. ↑ Whitecaps add four, including MLS signer Salgado Archived 17 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "USSF Division-2 Pro League". Ussf.demosphere.com. 5 September 2010. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  3. ↑ "USSF Division-2 Pro League". Ussf.demosphere.com. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  4. ↑ "Whitecaps FC sign four more players to MLS side | Vancouver Whitecaps FC". Whitecapsfc.com. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
  5. ↑ Joe Prince-Wright (7 November 2011). "Morfaw and Elmasri leave Whitecaps after camp". Mlssoccer.com. Retrieved 24 November 2011.
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