Desmond Tachie

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Desmond Tachie
Personal information
Full name Desmond Tachie
Date of birth (1984-05-01) May 1, 1984 (age 39)
Place of birth Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 West Van FC
Number 19
Youth career
1998–2002 Vancouver Selects
2003 Capilano College
2013–2014 Capilano Blues [1]
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2004–2005 Edmonton Aviators 13 (0)
2005 Ottawa Fury 15 (7)
2005 Toronto Lynx 10 (5)
2006–2008 Kaposvölgye VSC 33 (7)
2009 West Van
2009 Bridges
2009 Athletic Club of BC [2]
2010 Charlotte Eagles 7 (0)
2011 Aalborg BK B [3]
2012 Rovers United [4]
2012 Fremad Amager [5] 4 (0)
2013–? West Van FC [6]
2019 TSS FC Rovers 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Desmond Tachie-Mason (born May 1, 1984) is a Canadian soccer player, who is currently playing and working as coach for the Vancouver Metro Soccer League club West Van FC. [7]

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Career

College

Tachie played for the Vancouver Selects and attended Capilano College, who he led to the Canadian Colleges Championship in 2003, earning Canadian Colleges and British Columbia Colleges All-Star selections.

Professional

Tachie turned professional in 2004, playing with the Edmonton Aviators in the USL First Division, appearing in 13 games. Following a successful season with Ottawa Fury in the USL Premier Development League in 2005, [8] during which scored 7 goals and 7 assists in 15 games, [9] Tachie signed with the Toronto Lynx.

Tachie moved to Hungary in 2007 when he signed for Kaposvölgye VSC. He spent the next two seasons playing in the Hungarian league, scoring 7 goals in 33 appearances for Kaposvölgye, before returning to North America in 2009.

He trialed with Major League Soccer expansion club Seattle Sounders FC in the early months of 2009, and was a Sounders SuperSearch finalist, [10] but was ultimately not offered a contract by the club, and returned to Canada. [11]

He subsequently played with several Canadian amateur teams, including the Capilano Blues of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League [12] and Athletic Club of BC of the Pacific Coast Soccer League, before signing with the Charlotte Eagles of the USL Second Division in 2010.

Tachie played for Aalborg BK in Denmark before moving back to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2013 where he is currently a staff coach at West Vancouver Soccer Club, and the assistant coach for Capilano University's men's team.

Personal

Tachie comes from Kumasi in Ghana. He emigrated to Canada in the mid 1990s.

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References

  1. ↑ "Desmond Tachie - Canada | LinkedIn". Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  2. ↑ 2009 Voyageur Golden Shoe - Page 3 - Voyageurs Forum
  3. ↑ Würtz i aktion for reserverne - AaB A/S
  4. ↑ "Azzi's Superlative Week in Review 2011/2012". Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  5. ↑ "Desmond Tachie - Fremad Amager". Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  6. ↑ "Big Upsets in VMSL Premier Make-Up Games". Archived from the original on 2014-03-05. Retrieved 2014-03-05.
  7. ↑ Mini U8 - U10 - West Vancouver Soccer Club
  8. ↑ "Premier Development League website". Archived from the original on 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  9. ↑ Toronto Lynx website [ permanent dead link ]
  10. ↑ Seattlepitch story
  11. ↑ "King 5 news article". Archived from the original on 2009-01-29. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
  12. ↑ BCS Soccer website [ permanent dead link ]
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