Macoumba Kandji

Macoumba Kandji
Personnel
birthday	2nd August 1985
place of birth	Dakar ,  Senegal
size	194 cm
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
2003-2004	East Mecklenburg High School
2004-2005	Georgia Military College
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006	Atlanta Silverbacks U-23	8 0(1)
2007-2008	Atlanta Silverbacks	28 (13)
2008	→  New York Red Bulls  (loan)	5 0(1)
2009-2010	New York Red Bulls	36 0(5)
2010-2011	Colorado Rapids	27 0(2)
2012-2013	Houston Dynamo	29 0(4)
2013-2014	AEL Kalloni FC	19 0(6)
2014	Levadiakos	12 0(0)
2014	HJK Helsinki	24 0(6)
2015	Al-Faisaly FC	10 0(4)
2015	HJK Helsinki	5 0(1)
2017	FC Inter Turku	25 0(5)
2018	FC Honka	26 (16)
2019	Sanat Naft Abadan	5 0(2)
2019-2020	FC Honka	0 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of December 24, 2017

Macoumba "Mac" Kandji (born August 2, 1985 in Dakar ) is a Senegalese football player on the position of a striker . He currently plays for the Finnish club FC Honka in the country's highest league, the Veikkausliiga .

Career

Youth and amateur football

Kandji was born in Senegal, grew up in The Gambia and didn't come to the United States until 2003 . There he attended the East Mecklenburg High School in Charlotte , North Carolina from 2003 to 2004 , where he also gained his first experience in the local soccer team. At the end of the year he was named the team's MVP . After high school, he played on the Georgia Military Bulldogs soccer team at Georgia Military College in Milledgeville , Georgia . At the Bulldogs, he was elected to the All-Region team in 2004 and 2005. In his senior year of college, Kandji had 17 hits and six assists .

In 2006 Kandji played for the Atlanta Silverbacks U23s in the USL Premier Development League , an amateur league, which is regarded as fourth class . By good performance in his eight completed games, in which he scored a hit and prepared one, he came in 2007 to the professional team of the Atlanta Silverbacks , which has their game operations in the second-rate USL First Division .

Club career

His active career as a professional football player began on August 4, 2007 when he made his debut in the game against Charleston Battery . From that moment on, Kandji was considered one of the best players in the entire league. Before he left in 2008, he had played 28 league games for the Silverbacks and had a record of 13 goals and five assists. He also scored a goal in two games played in the 2008 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup ; the team was eliminated in the second round with a 1-0 defeat against Miami FC from the competition. Plagued by several injuries during his time with the Atlanta Silverbacks, Kandji was loaned to the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer on September 15, 2008. The MLS club paid the USL-1 club initially a sum of 25,000 USD . Should Kandji continue to perform well in the top division, another USD 150,000 would follow and Kandji would be accepted as a contract player in the club. He made his MLS debut on September 27 in the game against the Colorado Rapids , in which he was able to record an assist.

After the management of the Atlanta Silverbacks had announced in November 2008 that they would suspend the game operations in men's football in the 2009 season for financial reasons, Kandji became a free agent , which is why the previously agreed amount of 175,000 USD did not have to be paid. Nevertheless, the owner of the Atlanta Silverbacks, Boris Jerkunica , signed Kandji's rights to the Carolina RailHawks , in which Jerkunica also has shares. The management of the New York Red Bulls subsequently bought these rights, whereupon Kandji signed a one-year contract on January 14, 2009. In September 2010 he moved to the Colorado Rapids . There he created the decisive goal for the 2010 MLS Cup final .

After a stopover at Levadiakos in Greece, his career led him from 2014 to the Finnish clubs HJK Helsinki , FC Inter Turku and FC Honka .

Web links

• Macoumba Kandji in the database of weltfussball.de
• Macoumba kandji in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Macoumba Kandji in the database of MLSSoccer.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silverbacks Men Sit Out 2009 Season ( Memento from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 28, 2009)
2. ↑ Clarifying Kandji's situation. Announcement regarding the USL Carolina Railhawks transfer (accessed April 28, 2009)
3. ↑ Macoumba Kandji in: New York Red Bulls All-Time Team Roster 2009–2010 (accessed August 29, 2019)