Ezra Armstrong (born December 15, 1998) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for

St. Louis City SC 2 St Louis City SC 2, often shortened to St Louis City 2 or City2 (stylized as CITY2), is an American professional soccer team that is located in St. Louis, Missouri. It is the reserve team of St. Louis City SC and participates in MLS Next Pro. T ...

in the

MLS Next Pro MLS Next Pro is a men's professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that is affiliated with Major League Soccer. It launched in 2022 with 21 teams and will expand to 28 in 2023. The league comprises 27 reserve sides for MLS clubs ...

Career

Armstrong signed to Sporting Kansas City's

United Soccer League United Soccer League (USL), formerly known as United Soccer Leagues, is a soccer league in the United States and Canada. It organizes several men's and women's leagues, both professional and amateur. Men's leagues currently organized are the ...

affiliate side

Swope Park Rangers Sporting Kansas City II is a MLS Next Pro club affiliated with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer. For the 2022 season they will play their home games at Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, as well as Sw ...

from their academy on March 10, 2016. In 2018, Armstrong joined German 6th-tier side Türkspor Augsburg. Armstrong signed to

Skovshoved IF Skovshoved Idrætsforening, or Skovshoved IF, is a Danish sports club. The football team is currently playing in the Danish 2nd Divisions. They play at Skovshoved Idrætspark (also referred to as ''Banen ved Krøyersvej'') in Klampenborg north ...

in the Fall of 2019. On February 15, 2021, Armstrong returned to the United States, joining

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a professional men's soccer league in the United States that began its inaugural season in 2011. The USL is sanctioned by the United States Soccer Federation (U.S. Soccer) as a Division II league since 2017, p ...

side

Pittsburgh Riverhounds Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC is an American professional soccer team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1999 and beginning play in 1999, the club plays in the Eastern Conference of the USL Championship, the second tier of the American so ...

. On February 7, 2022, Armstrong joined

side St. Louis City 2 ahead of the league's inaugural season.

Personal

Ezra is the son of former

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international

Desmond Armstrong Desmond Kevin Armstrong (born November 2, 1964) is an American former soccer defender and midfielder, who was a member of the United States national team from 1987 to 1994. He played three seasons in the Major Indoor Soccer League, part of o ...

References

External links

Swope Park Rangers Profile
1998 births Living people American men's soccer players Sporting Kansas City II players Men's association football defenders Soccer players from Tennessee USL Championship players MLS Next Pro players Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC players American expatriate soccer players in Germany American expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark American expatriate men's soccer players National Premier Soccer League players Sportspeople from Nashville, Tennessee Sportspeople from Gastonia, North Carolina St. Louis City 2 players {{US-footy-defender-stub