Yahaya Musa

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Yahaya Musa
Personal information
Full name Yahaya Musa
Date of birth (1986-12-20) December 20, 1986 (age 37)
Place of birth Canberra, Australia
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
2000–2004 Elmont Memorial Spartans
2004 PSC Soccer Academy
2004–2009 Stony Brook Seahawks
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2006 Fort Wayne Fever 12 (0)
2007 Long Island Rough Riders
2008 Kalamazoo Outrage
2008 Academia Quintana
2009 Sevilla FC Puerto Rico
2010–2011 Bayamón FC
2012 Wilmington Hammerheads 25 (0)
2013 NY Greek Americans 19 (0)
2014 Wilmington Hammerheads 13 (0)
Managerial career
2012 North Shore SC
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yahaya Musa (born December 20, 1986) is an Australian-American soccer player who most recently played for Wilmington Hammerheads in USL Professional Division.

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Career

Musa played college soccer at Stony Brook University. He was captain of Stony Brook in 2006 and 2007 and was a member of the 2005 America East Championship team. In addition, he was 1st team All America East in 2007 and 2006, second team All America East in 2005, and America East Rookie team in 2004. [1]

As well as appearing in the USL Premier Development League for Fort Wayne Fever, [2] Long Island Rough Riders [3] and Kalamazoo Outrage, [4] Musa also spent two seasons in Puerto Rico with Academia Quintana, Sevilla FC Puerto Rico and Bayamón FC. [5] [6]

Musa signed with USL Professional Division club Wilmington Hammerheads in March 2012. He made his debut with the club on April 29, 2012, as a 65th-minute substitute in a 1–0 victory over Pittsburgh Riverhounds. [7] Musa spent the 2013 season playing for Greek American AA in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League and coaching the Amateur club North Shore Soccer Club in New York, [8] before resigned with the Hammerheads for the 2014 season. [9]

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