Macoumba Kandji
Macoumba Kandji | ||
Personnel | ||
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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 | (1)
2007-2008 | Atlanta Silverbacks | 28 (13) |
2008 | → New York Red Bulls (loan) | 5 | (1)
2009-2010 | New York Red Bulls | 36 | (5)
2010-2011 | Colorado Rapids | 27 | (2)
2012-2013 | Houston Dynamo | 29 | (4)
2013-2014 | AEL Kalloni FC | 19 | (6)
2014 | Levadiakos | 12 | (0)
2014 | HJK Helsinki | 24 | (6)
2015 | Al-Faisaly FC | 10 | (4)
2015 | HJK Helsinki | 5 | (1)
2017 | FC Inter Turku | 25 | (5)
2018 | FC Honka | 26 (16) |
2019 | Sanat Naft Abadan | 5 | (2)
2019-2020 | FC Honka | 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
- ↑ Silverbacks Men Sit Out 2009 Season ( Memento from December 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 28, 2009)
- ↑ Clarifying Kandji's situation. Announcement regarding the USL Carolina Railhawks transfer (accessed April 28, 2009)
- ↑ Macoumba Kandji in: New York Red Bulls All-Time Team Roster 2009–2010 (accessed August 29, 2019)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kandji, Macoumba |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kandji, Mac (nickname) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Senegalese soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd August 1985 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dakar |