Kevin Cossette (born January 9, 1990) is a

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player who plays for Première Ligue de soccer du Québec club Royal-Sélect de Beauport.

Early life

Cossette was born in Greenfield Park, Quebec and grew up in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. He played for numerous amateur and youth teams between 2002 and 2007, including Inter St-Hyacinthe, Cosmos Granby AAA, FC Sélect Rive-Sud AAA and Champlain College AAA.

Club career

He played for Montreal Impact's junior affiliate,

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, in the

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in 2009, scoring 3 goals in 18 games, prior to formally joining the Montreal Impact Academy in 2010. Cossette was called up to the senior Montreal Impact squad in the summer of 2010, and made his debut for the team on July 3, 2010, in a game against the Rochester Rhinos. He attended preseason with the club in 2011, but was released at the very end of the camp, failing to make the 2011 roster. In 2011, he decided to go to university attending Université Laval, where he played for the soccer team. Starting in 2013, he played with Royal-Sélect de Beauport in the

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, the top amateur division in Quebec. After graduating in 2015, he attended tryouts with

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clubs Rochester Rhinos and Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC, before ultimately signing with Louisville City FC. He became the first Laval graduate to sign a professional soccer contract. After the season, he received a contract offer from Pittsburgh, however, due to the low salary, he instead returned to his home in Quebec and re-joined Beauport. In 2017, he joined

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in the semi-professional Première Ligue de soccer du Québec. In 2020, after Dynamo left the PLSQ, he joined

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Coaching career

Beginning in 2016, he worked as the technical director of the Mistral Laurentien SC, and in 2020, he joined the Richelieu Valley club in a similar capacity.

References

External links

Trois Riviere Attak bio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cossette, Kevin 1990 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Canadian men's soccer players Soccer people from Quebec Sportspeople from Longueuil Sportspeople from Saint-Hyacinthe Canadian expatriate men's soccer players Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Trois-Rivières Attak players CF Montréal U23 players Montreal Impact (1992–2011) players Louisville City FC players Canadian Soccer League (1998–present) players USSF Division 2 Professional League players USL Championship players Ligue1 Québec players Dynamo de Quebec players FC Sélect Rive-Sud players A.S. Blainville players Royal-Sélect de Beauport players