Evans Frimpong

Evans Frimpong (born August 8, 1989) is a Ghanaian footballer who is currently the head coach for the Florida Tropics outdoor team in the United Premier Soccer League, and an assistant coach with USL League Two club Swan City SC.

Career

Youth

Frimpong began his youth career playing for Liberty Babies FC alongside Kwadwo Asamoah of Juventus F.C., Rabiu Mohammed, Abdul Aziz Tetteh of Lech Poznań and Daniel Agyei. He captained the team at the 2008 Gothia Cup in Sweden where they were runners up, losing to IF Elfsborg in the final. Frimpong also made the shortlist for Ghana's 2007 national U-17 football team .

College and Amateur

Frimpong played college soccer at UTB between 2008 and 2009 before transferring to the University of Delaware, where he played between 2010 and 2011.

Among the honors Frimpong received in 2011 were second team National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-American, first team NSCAA All-South Atlantic Region, Hermann Trophy (National Player of the Year) final 15 semifinalist, CAA Player of the Year and ECAC All-East first team. He ranked among the CAA leaders in scoring, tallying 29 points on 12 goals and five assists in 2011. Overall, he tallied 15 goals during his two-year college career with the Blue Hens.

Professional

Chicago Fire selected Frimpong in the first round (No. 9 overall) of the 2012 MLS Supplemental Draft. However, after a brief stint with the club, he was traded to San Jose Earthquakes where he completed his pre-season.

Frimpong joined North American Soccer League club Tampa Bay Rowdies on May 2, 2012, and played a major role in their successful quest to hoist the Soccer Bowl trophy that same year. He signed a two-year contract to stay with the club until the end of the 2014 season. Frimpong finished his 2013 campaign with six goals and in the 2014 season, he scored three goals including a double against New York Cosmos in a performance which earned him a spot on the North American Soccer League team of the week. In 2015, Frimpong joined the Rowdies' archrivals Fort Lauderdale Strikers and helped them to the NASL playoffs with brilliant performances in key games, most notably against his former team, the Tampa Bay Rowdies, where he delivered the game winning assist to lead the strikers to capture the 2015 Coastal Cup. After a season with the Strikers, he went to Vendsyssel FF in Denmark for trials but later signed with Oklahoma City Energy FC on February 1 for the 2016 season. Frimpong is a versatile player and a clinical finisher when playing in the forward position. His best attributes are speed, aggression, technical dribbling ability and near perfect ball control.

Frimpong was released by Puerto Rico at the end of the 2016 fall season.

Frimpong was signed to Al-najma in 2016 and scored 3 goals in 12 matches for the side, playing an instrumental role in keeping them from relegation that season.

On October 19, 2017, Frimpong signed for Polish club Jarota Jarocin.

In 2019, Frimpong joined the newly-professional Detroit City FC of the National Independent Soccer Association.

References

External links

Delaware profile

Tampa Bay profile
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1989 births
Living people
Ghanaian footballers
Ghanaian expatriate footballers
Footballers from Accra
Delaware Fightin' Blue Hens men's soccer players
Reading United AC players
Tampa Bay Rowdies players
Fort Lauderdale Strikers players
OKC Energy FC players
Detroit City FC players
Florida Tropics SC players
Expatriate soccer players in the United States
Expatriate footballers in Poland
USL League Two players
North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players
USL Championship players
National Independent Soccer Association players
Chicago Fire FC draft picks
Men's association football wingers
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in the United States
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
Expatriate footballers in Bahrain
Ghanaian expatriate sportspeople in Bahrain
Puerto Rico FC players
Al-Najma SC (Bahrain) players
Jarota Jarocin players
United Premier Soccer League players
United Premier Soccer League coaches
Ghanaian football managers
Ghanaian expatriate football managers
Expatriate soccer coaches in the United States
Men's association football player-managers
USL League Two coaches