Nicolas "Ken" Kendi Bellini (born May 14, 2003) is a Brazilian-born-American

soccer Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is ...

player who plays as a

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for Real Monarchs in the USL Championship via the

Real Salt Lake Real Salt Lake, often shortened to RSL, is an American professional soccer franchise based in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The club competes as a member club of Major League Soccer (MLS) in the Western Conference. RSL began play in 20 ...

academy.

Career

Bellini spent time with the

academy in

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from 2015. He made his debut for the club's USL Championship side Real Monarchs as an academy player on September 26, 2020, coming on as an 87th-minute substitute during a 1–1 draw with

Colorado Springs Switchbacks Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC is a professional soccer team based in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Founded in 2014, the team is a member of the USL Championship, the second tier of the American soccer pyramid. The franchise is owned by Martin E ...

References

External links

USSDA bio
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Ken scored a hat trick (photo from July 15, 2015)
at Real Salt Lake 2003 births Living people American soccer players Association football forwards Brazilian expatriate footballers Brazilian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Brazilian footballers People from Lehi, Utah Real Monarchs players Soccer players from Utah USL Championship players {{US-footy-forward-stub