Evans Frimpong

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Evans Frimpong
Personal information
Full name Evans Frimpong
Date of birth (1989-08-08) August 8, 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Accra, Ghana
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
0000–2008 Liberty Babies FC
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2008–2009 Texas–Brownsville Scorpions
2010–2011 Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2009–2011 Reading United 24 (5)
2012–2014 Tampa Bay Rowdies 56 (9)
2015 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 12 (0)
2016 Oklahoma City Energy 6 (0)
2016 Puerto Rico FC 3 (0)
2016–2017 Al-Najma 12 (3)
2017 Jarota Jarocin 6 (0)
2019–2020 Detroit City 5 (0)
2021–2022 Tropics SC
2021–2022 Florida Tropics (indoor) 0 (0)
Managerial career
2022 Tropics SC
2023– Swan City SC (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Evans Frimpong (born August 8, 1989) is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who is currently an assistant coach with USL League Two club Swan City SC.

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Career

Youth

Frimpong began his youth career playing for Liberty Babies FC alongside Kwadwo Asamoah of Juventus FC, Rabiu Mohammed, Abdul Aziz Tetteh of Lech Poznań and Daniel Agyei. He captained the team at the 2008 Gothia Cup in Sweden where they were runners up, losing to IF Elfsborg in the final. Frimpong also made the shortlist for Ghana's 2007 national U-17 football team .

College and amateur

Frimpong played college soccer at UTB between 2008 and 2009 before transferring to the University of Delaware, where he played between 2010 and 2011.

Among the honors Frimpong received in 2011 were second team National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-American, first team NSCAA All-South Atlantic Region, Hermann Trophy (National Player of the Year) final 15 semifinalist, CAA Player of the Year and ECAC All-East first team. He ranked among the CAA leaders in scoring, tallying 29 points on 12 goals and five assists in 2011. Overall, he tallied 15 goals during his two-year college career with the Blue Hens. [1]

Professional

Chicago Fire selected Frimpong in the first round (No. 9 overall) of the 2012 MLS Supplemental Draft. [2] However, after a brief stint with the club, he was traded to San Jose Earthquakes where he completed his pre-season.

Frimpong joined North American Soccer League club Tampa Bay Rowdies on May 2, 2012, and played a major role in their successful quest to hoist the Soccer Bowl trophy that same year. He signed a two-year contract to stay with the club until the end of the 2014 season. Frimpong finished his 2013 campaign with six goals and in the 2014 season, he scored three goals including a double against New York Cosmos in a performance which earned him a spot on the North American Soccer League team of the week. [3] In 2015, Frimpong joined the Rowdies' archrivals Fort Lauderdale Strikers and helped them to the NASL playoffs with brilliant performances in key games, most notably against his former team, the Tampa Bay Rowdies, where he delivered the game winning assist to lead the strikers to capture the 2015 Coastal Cup. After a season with the Strikers, he went to Vendsyssel FF in Denmark for trials but later signed with Oklahoma City Energy FC on February 1 for the 2016 season. Frimpong is a versatile player and a clinical finisher when playing in the forward position. His best attributes are speed, aggression, technical dribbling ability and near perfect ball control.

Frimpong was released by Puerto Rico at the end of the 2016 fall season. [4]

Frimpong was signed to Al-najma in 2016 and scored 3 goals in 12 matches for the side, playing an instrumental role in keeping them from relegation that season.

On October 19, 2017, Frimpong signed for Polish club Jarota Jarocin. [5]

In 2019, Frimpong joined the newly-professional Detroit City FC of the National Independent Soccer Association. [6]

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References

  1. ↑ "| Tampa Bay Rowdies". Archived from the original on February 1, 2013. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on May 16, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2012.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Marcos Senna named to NASL team of the week". Twice a Cosmo. October 29, 2014. Retrieved February 10, 2016.
  4. ↑ "PRFC ANNOUNCES CHANGES TO ROSTER HEADING INTO THE OFFSEASON". puertoricofc.com. Puerto Rico FC. November 21, 2016. Retrieved November 22, 2016.
  5. ↑ Evans Frimpong piłkarzem Jaroty! Archived February 15, 2018, at the Wayback Machine ‚ jarota.com, October 19, 2017
  6. ↑ "Detroit falls to USL Championship side Indy Eleven, 1-0". Detroit City FC. August 13, 2019. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
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