Personal information | |||
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Full name | McColm Cephas | ||
Date of birth | 30 September 1978 | ||
Place of birth | Monrovia, Liberia | ||
Height | 5 ft 5 in (1.65 m) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Youth career | |||
2002–2003 | VCU Rams | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2003 | Richmond Kickers Future | 11 | (8) |
2004–2005 | Richmond Kickers | 47 | (11) |
2006 | Virginia Beach Mariners | 12 | (0) |
2007 | Carolina RailHawks | 14 | (1) |
Total | 84 | (20) | |
International career | |||
2004 | Liberia | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
McColm Cephas (born 30 September 1978) is a Liberian former footballer who played as a forward. He has earned two caps with the Liberia national team.
Cephas attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he played for the men's soccer team in 2002 and 2003.
He played two World Cup 2006 qualifying games for Liberia in 2004. [1]
In 2007, Cephas signed with the Carolina RailHawks of the USL First Division. [2] He scored only one goal in fourteen league games, but more significantly, he scored the only goal as Carolina upset the Chicago Fire, holders of the cup, in the 2007 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. [3]
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