Gagandeep Dosanjh (born 1 November 1990) is a Canadian professional

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player who plays as a

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Club career

Youth

Born in Abbotsford,

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to Pavinder and Gurpal Dosanjh, both

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n immigrants from

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. Dosanjh started his career in the

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with the

Abbotsford Rangers Fraser Valley Mariners is a Canadian soccer team based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 2003, the team plays in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Northwest Divis ...

in 2007. He then joined the Whitecaps U-23 where he stayed until 2010. While with the Whitecaps U-23, Dosanjh went on loan to

Energie Cottbus FC Energie Cottbus ( Lower Sorbian: ''Energija Chóśebuz'') is a German football club based in Cottbus, Brandenburg. It was founded in 1963 as SC Cottbus in what was East Germany. After the reunification of Germany, Energie played six seasons i ...

U23 side in the Oberliga. Then, in 2010, Dosanjh joined the

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where he played for the

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of the

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leagues. In his first year with the side he helped lead the team to the

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title. Individually he earned a Canada West first team all-star selection and CIS Championship tournament all-star selection. In 2012 Dosanjh lead the Thunderbirds to 2012 CIS Championship where he scored four goals in three games. He also earned the UBC Thunderbirds Bus Phillips Memorial Trophy winner in 2013 as the UBC Male Athlete of the Year as well as CIS Championship tournament all-star selection and he also won the CIS Championship MVP award. Overall during his three seasons with the team, Dosanjh scored 26 goals in 50 games. Also in 2012, during the summer, Dosanjh re-joined the Whitecaps organization as captain of the

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side during the

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. He scored four goals in fifteen matches in his only season with the team. For the 2015–16 season, Gagan has returned to UBC Thunderbirds program. Dosanjh scored seven times during the regular season, which him seventh on the Canada West leaderboard. He also third in the league with five assists. This earned him second-team CIS honours in his final season. He was also named a Canada-West All-Star.

FC Edmonton

On 1 August 2013, it was confirmed that Dosanjh had signed with

FC Edmonton FC Edmonton was a Canadian professional soccer club based in Edmonton, Alberta. The club was founded in 2010 and competed in the North American Soccer League (NASL) from 2011 to 2017. The club went on hiatus when NASL ceased competitive operat ...

of the

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. He made his professional debut for the team on 24 August 2013 against the

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in which he came on in the 58th minute for

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as Edmonton drew 1–1.

International career

In 2007 Dosanjh made his debut for the Canada U17 team.

Career statistics

References

External links

FC Edmonton Profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Dosanjh, Gagan 1990 births Living people Association football midfielders Canada men's youth international soccer players Canadian expatriate soccer players Canadian people of Indian descent Canadian soccer players Expatriate footballers in Germany FC Energie Cottbus II players FC Edmonton players Fraser Valley Mariners players North American Soccer League players Sportspeople from Abbotsford, British Columbia Soccer people from British Columbia UBC Thunderbirds soccer players USL League Two players Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 players