Ezra Armstrong

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Ezra Armstrong
Personnel
Surname Ezra Hanani Armstrong
birthday December 15, 1998
place of birth Gastonia , North Carolina ,  USA
size 174 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
0000–2014 Nashville Heroes FC / Sporting Nashville Heroes
2014-2017 Blue Valley North High School
2015-2017 Sporting Kansas City
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2016 →  Swope Park Rangers  (farm team) 2 (0)
2018 Columbus FC 6 (1)
2018-2019 Türkspor Augsburg 25 (3)
2019– Skovshoved IF 1 (0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of January 10, 2020

Ezra Hanani Armstrong (born December 15, 1998 in Gastonia , North Carolina ) is an American football player on the position of defender . Since 2019 he has been playing for Skovshoved IF with games in the third-class Danish 2nd division .

He is the son of former US International and Hall of Famer Desmond Armstrong .

Career

Career start in the USA

Ezra Armstrong was born on December 15, 1998, the son of former US international Desmond Armstrong, in the city of Gastonia, North Carolina, where his family was then and his father shortly before he was accepted as the head coach of the men's football division Montreat College was. He subsequently grew up in Nashville , Tennessee , and began his active football career here. In the course of his childhood and youth he played for the training team FC Nashville Heroes , which his father founded and which has been closely linked to the MLS franchise Sporting Kansas City since spring 2014 through the joint owner Sporting Club . Subsequently, at the beginning of the 2014/15 season, he moved to the Academy of Sporting Kansas City, where his father also works in training. When he arrived in Kansas City , Missouri , the then 15-year-old initially found it difficult to join the team, as the intensity of the training had increased significantly with additional games at the weekend. In parallel with his time at the franchise academy, Armstrong also attended Blue Valley North High School in Overland Park , a suburb of Kansas City, where he also lives with his family.

As an academy player to a professional debut

After he came to the start in the U-16 team of the Academy used, where he became under former Hungarian national team István Urbányi the 1980 Kansas City head coach Sporting, the end on the side of Peter Vermes at Győri ETO FC played , trained, he soon made the jump to the next higher junior division. Until his first so-called Academy Contract , a contract that entitles him to appear in the recently founded USL franchise Swope Park Rangers , but also enables him to continue to be active in the academy, he was used in more than 35 academy games and contributed four hits. By the time the contract was signed in March 2016, he had made nine championship appearances for the U-18 team in the 2015/16 season. For the Swope Park Rangers, which thus exist as the second professional team next to Sporting Kansas City, he then made his professional league debut on May 14, 2016 under Canadian coach Marc Dos Santos when he won the 2-1 home win over the Tulsa Roughnecks in stoppage time (91st minute) for the Canadian double goal scorer Tyler Pasher came on the lawn. In the following months there were no other missions - with the exception of another short stint against Saint Louis FC on August 21. Instead, he continued to work in the academy and at his high school, which he successfully completed in 2017.

Further stations in the USA, Germany and Denmark

Through his father's mediation, he found a job in 2018 with the FC Columbus franchise, which was founded in February of the same year, with games in the lower-class National Premier Soccer League . His father acted there as one of the assistant coaches and the Jamaican head coach Maziya Chete . In the 2018 game year, Armstrong played six championship games and scored the goal to lead his team 1-0 on June 8, 2018 in a 1-1 home draw against Detroit City FC . The young defensive player made six championship appearances and one goal over the entire season. In the summer of 2018 Armstrong made the leap to Europe and hired here at Türkspor Augsburg with play in the sixth-class German regional league Bayern Southwest . After his debut against SV Mering on August 25, 2018, the ninth round of the current season, he played in all 25 remaining league games until the end of the 2018/19 season and contributed three goals. Behind TSV Landsberg , Türkspor Augsburg was runner-up at the end of the season and thus had the opportunity to advance to the Bayern League via relegation games . The Augsburg team defeated 1. FC Sonthofen and thus achieved the club's greatest success to date, promotion to the fifth-class Bayernliga.

After the end of the season Armstrong left Augsburg and only came several months later at Skovshoved IF with play in the 2nd division , the third highest Danish soccer league. In the double-track 2nd division Armstrong made his debut on October 23, 2019 in a 1: 2 home defeat against Hellerup IK when he was substituted on by his coach Claus Larsen in the 78th minute for Frederik Frick. He then sat unused on the bench in three other league games before the league went into the winter break (as of January 10, 2020). With the team, he is currently (as of January 10, 2020) in last place in Group 1 .

successes

with Türkspor Augsburg
  • Runner-up in the Landesliga Bayern Südwest and promotion to the Bayernliga: 2018/19

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ezra Armstrong in the Prezi presentation program (English), accessed on July 22, 2016
  2. ↑ a b c AFFILIATE TO SWOPE PARK RANGERS: EZRA ARMSTRONG'S JOURNEY TO BECOMING A RANGER , accessed on July 22, 2016
  3. ↑ Desmond Armstrong travels to Omaha FC and Sporting Lincoln , accessed July 22, 2016
  4. ↑ Soccer runs in the family: Ezra Armstrong makes professional debut for Swope Park Rangers , accessed July 22, 2016
  5. ↑ The North Star, Blue Valley North High School, May 2016 , accessed July 22, 2016
  6. ↑ a b Swope Park Rangers sign Ezra Armstrong, Will Little and Steven Tekesky to Academy contracts , accessed July 22, 2016
  7. ^ Swope Park Rangers earn 2-1 victory over Tulsa Roughnecks FC , accessed on July 22, 2016
  8. ↑ 06/08/2018 - FC Columbus vs. Detroit City FC , accessed November 8, 2018
  9. ^ FC Columbus - 2018 Player Statistics , accessed on November 8, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Armstrong, Ezra
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Armstrong, Ezra Hanani (full name); Armstrong, Nani (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1998
PLACE OF BIRTH Gastonia , North Carolina , United States