Ezequiel Enrique Carrasco Ayala (born September 11, 2002) is a Canadian

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player who plays as a

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for

Unionville Milliken SC Unionville Milliken Soccer Club is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in Unionville, Ontario. The club was founded in 1976 as a youth soccer club and added its men's semi-professional club in League1 Ontario in 2018. The club also f ...

League1 Ontario League1 Ontario (L1O) is a semi-professional men's soccer league in Ontario, Canada. The league began play in 2014 and is sanctioned by the Canadian Soccer Association and the Ontario Soccer Association as a pro-am league in the Canadian so ...

Early life

Carrasco played youth soccer with Kleinburg Nobleton SC and spent time training with Chilean club

Everton de Viña del Mar Everton de Viña del Mar is a Chilean football club based in the city of Viña del Mar. The club was founded 24 June 1909 after a group of Anglo-Chilean teenagers formed a football club and named it after the English team Everton who had re ...

Playing career

In March 2020, Carrasco went on trial with

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York9 FC York United Football Club (formerly known as York9 FC) is a Canadian professional soccer club based in Toronto, Ontario. The club competes in the Canadian Premier League and plays its home games at York University's York Lions Stadium. History ...

and participated their preseason training camp in Florida. In July 2020, he signed his first professional contract with the club ahead of the delayed 2020 season, at the age of seventeen. On August 29, 2020, he made his professional debut as a starter against

HFX Wanderers FC HFX Wanderers Football Club, commonly known as HFX Wanderers, and spoken as Halifax Wanderers, is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The club competes in the Canadian Premier League at the top of t ...

after an injury to first-choice keeper

Nathan Ingham Nathan Ingham (born 27 June 1993) is a Canadian professional soccer player who plays as a goalkeeper for Atlético Ottawa. Club career Early career Ingham began studying at the Florida Gulf Coast University in 2011, having graduated from Keswick ...

. In November 2020, his option for the following season was declined by York. In 2021, he began playing college soccer with

Humber College The Humber College Institute of Technology & Advanced Learning, commonly known as Humber College, is a public College of Applied Arts and Technology in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1967, Humber has two main campuses: the Humber North c ...

. With Humber he was a 2021 CCAA National Champion and 2021 OCAA Provincial Champion. In 2023, he played with

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carrasco, Ezequiel 2002 births Living people Men's association football goalkeepers Canadian Premier League players Canadian men's soccer players Soccer players from Toronto York United FC players Unionville Milliken SC players League1 Ontario players Humber College alumni