Tobi "Bob" Jnohope (born 4 October 1997) is a

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er who currently plays for

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of the

Armenian First League The Armenian First League is currently the second level football competition in Armenia after the Armenian Premier League The Armenian Premier League ( hy, VBET Հայաստանի Պրեմիեր Լիգա, known as the VBET Armenian Premier Lea ...

Youth and college

Jnohope began his youth career with Clearwater Chargers Soccer Club in

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where he played for 10 years before joining the Sounders FC Academy in 2015. On 3 February 2016, it was announced that Jnohope signed a letter of intent to play

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at the

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. After being

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as a freshman, he was expected by some media outlets to play a greater role for the upcoming year. However, he was off the roster by the start of the 2017 season.

Club career

On 25 March 2016, Jnohope made his professional debut for

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of the

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, the reserve side of

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. The match ended in a 1–0 defeat to

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. In total he made five league appearances for the club during the

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. In January 2019, Jnohope signed for Mosta of the Maltese Premier League. After waiting for four months for his work permit, he appeared in three league matches and one match in the Maltese FA Trophy for the club before the season ended and his 6-month contract expired. His one

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appearance came in a 1–2

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defeat to

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in which Jnohope scored an own goal. Afterward, he had a training stint with Belgian club RAQM Mons while searching for a new club. In October 2020, Jnohope was unveiled as a new signing for

U.S. Palmese 1912 The U.S. Palmese 1912 is a football club based in Palmi, Calabria, Palmi, Italy, founded in 1912. The team, whose colors are black and green, is one of the oldest in the football landscape of Calabria, and in the past has also played in the champi ...

of the Italian Eccellenza Calabria for the 2020–21 season. In March 2021, he moved to

of the

. He made his league debut for the club on 15 March against FC Urartu-2, starting the match and playing the full ninety minutes of the 1–0 victory.

International career

Jnohope was born in

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to a

Kalinago The Kalinago, also known as the Island Caribs or simply Caribs, are an indigenous people of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean. They may have been related to the Mainland Caribs (Kalina) of South America, but they spoke an unrelated language ...

father and

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

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mother. After initially being undecided about which nation to represent, in July 2019 he was included in Dominica's under-23 squad for

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. He scored his team's only goal in its opening match against

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, an eventual surprise 1–1 draw. He went on to make two appearances in the tournament.

References

External links

Denver Pioneers bio
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jnohope, Tobi 1997 births Living people American men's soccer players Men's association football defenders Soccer players from Florida Denver Pioneers men's soccer players Mosta F.C. players USL Championship players Maltese Premier League players Sportspeople from Clearwater, Florida People from Largo, Florida Sportspeople from Pinellas County, Florida Expatriate men's footballers in Malta Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Armenia American expatriate men's soccer players African-American soccer players American people of Dominica descent American sportspeople of Nigerian descent Dominica men's footballers Dominica men's international footballers Dominica men's under-20 international footballers Dominica men's youth international footballers Dominica expatriate men's footballers 21st-century African-American sportspeople