Taylor Benjamin

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Taylor Benjamin
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Benjamin with Capital City in 2011
Personal information
Full name Taylor Benjamin
Date of birth (1990-03-27) March 27, 1990 (age 34)
Place of birth Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
2009–2010 Algonquin Thunder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011–2012 Capital City 20 (0)
2013 Kingston 1 (0)
2014 London City
2014–2015 Morvant Caledonia United 4 (1)
2014–2015 North East Stars
2015–2016 SV Fortuna Regensburg 26 (0)
2016–2017 SG Bogen 5 (0)
2016–2017 TSV Bogen 10 (0)
2016–2017 SV Neukirchen Hl. Blut 11 (1)
2017–2018 SV Fortuna Regensburg 17 (1)
International career‡
2011–2012 Guyana 8 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 19, 2020
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of February 21, 2012

Taylor Benjamin (born March 27, 1990) is a former footballer. Born in Canada, he represented the Guyana national team.

Contents

Career

College and amateur

Born in Etobicoke, Ontario, Canada, Benjamin attended Woodroffe High School in Ottawa, Ontario from 2004 to 2008, played youth soccer with Ottawa Royals S.C. and FC Outaouais. He played one year of OCAA soccer at Algonquin College. [1] After one season, he moved to Limeira, Brazil to play for Associação Atlética Internacional.

Professional

Benjamin signed his first professional contract when he signed for Capital City F.C. in the Canadian Soccer League (CSL) on May 18, 2011. [2] He made his professional debut on 20 May 2011, in a 2–0 loss to Toronto Croatia. In 2013, he signed with Kingston FC, and assisted in securing the First Division title. [3] He featured in the CSL Championship finals with Kingston, but fell short after losing to SC Waterloo Region. [4] In 2014, he played abroad in the TT Pro League with Morvant Caledonia United, and later was transferred to North East Stars. [5] [6] [7]

In 2015, he returned to the CSL to play with London City. [8] For the remainder of the season he played abroad in the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte with SV Fortuna Regensburg. [9] He had a brief stint in the A-Klasse Bogen to play with SG Bogen. [10] [11] In 2016, he played in the Bayernliga Süd with TSV Bogen. [12] He returned to the Landesliga Bayern-Mitte to sign with SV Neukirchen Hl. Blut for the remainder of the 2016–17 season. [13] In 2017, he returned to play with SV Fortuna Regensburg. [14]

International

On November 11, 2011, Benjamin was called up to Guyana for their 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Trinidad & Tobago. [15] He made his international debut in the return-leg against Trinidad at Hasely Crawford Stadium on November 15, 2011. [16] [17]

Honors

Kingston

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  2. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-09-11. Retrieved 2011-05-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. ↑ "Kingston FC – The Official Website of Kingston's Professional Men's Soccer Club » Kingston FC 2013 Official Roster & Player Bios". 2013-09-16. Archived from the original on September 16, 2013. Retrieved 2020-03-19.
  4. ↑ Glover, Robin. "November 3, 2013 CSL Final--Kingston FC vs SC waterloo (by Rocket Robin)". www.rocketrobinsoccerintoronto.com. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
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  9. ↑ Würthele, Florian (August 6, 2015). "Fortuna-Knaller: Ein Nationalspieler kommt". fupa.net. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  10. ↑ "PERSÖNLICHE DATEN - Taylor Benjamin". fupa.net. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
  11. ↑ "Zwei Nachrichten, eine gute und eine schlechte, gibt es aus dem Lager des Bayernligisten TSV Bogen: Die Rautenstädter sind auf der Suche nach dem gewünschten defensiven Mittelfeldspieler fündig geworden". ovb-online.de. July 11, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
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  13. ↑ "Bogen legt mit Benjamin und Marcinkovic nach". fupa.net. July 7, 2016. Retrieved March 19, 2020.
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  15. ↑ "Another twin-tower to descend on November 11". 2 November 2011.
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