Nicolas Gabriel Apostol (born January 1, 1999) is a Canadian soccer player who most recently played for

Cavalry FC Cavalry Football Club, is a Canadian professional soccer club based in the Calgary metropolitan region of Alberta. The club competes at the top of the Canadian soccer league system in the Canadian Premier League, and plays their home matches a ...

in the

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Early life

Apostol began playing youth soccer with the Guildford Athletic Club in Surrey, playing with them from 2006 through 2011. From 2008 to 2011, he was a member of Whitecaps FC Prospects program, while still playing youth club soccer with Guildford, and in September 2011, he officially joined the Whitecaps FC Residency Program. In 2021, he joined the

Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23 Vancouver Whitecaps FC U-23, formerly known as Whitecaps FC Reserves, was a Canadian soccer team based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Although founded in 2005 as part of the development system for the Vancouver Whitecaps USL First Divisi ...

. In 2017, he began attending the

University of Connecticut The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...

, playing for the men's soccer team, scoring two goals in 18 games as a rookie. The following year, he departed UConn to attend

Oregon State University Oregon State University (OSU) is a public land-grant, research university in Corvallis, Oregon. OSU offers more than 200 undergraduate-degree programs along with a variety of graduate and doctoral degrees. It has the 10th largest engineering c ...

Club career

In 2016, while with the Whitecaps Academy, he was called up to the second team

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of the

USL 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 ...

, making his debut on July 16, against

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. The following year in 2017, he was called up again playing on May 28 against the

Real Monarchs Real Monarchs is a professional soccer club playing in the MLS Next Pro, a third division league of American soccer. The team is owned by, and operates as the reserve team of, the Major League Soccer club Real Salt Lake. While the senior club is ...

earning his first professional assist on Terran Campbell's goal. On August 31, 2021, he signed with

of the

. He made his debut the next day, coming on as a substitute against

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 ...

. After the 2021 season, Cavalry announced that Apostol would leave the club after one season.

International career

In 2011, he represented Western Canada at the

Danone Nations Cup The Danone Nations Cup is a football tournament for children between the ages of 10 and 12 (U12s category); it is organized every year since 2000 on the initiative of Groupe Danone.1999 births Living people Canadian men's soccer players Canadian people of Romanian descent Men's association football defenders Soccer people from British Columbia Sportspeople from Surrey, British Columbia Canadian expatriate men's soccer players Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Canadian expatriate sportspeople in the United States Whitecaps FC Academy players Whitecaps FC 2 players UConn Huskies men's soccer players Cavalry FC players United Soccer League players Canadian Premier League players