Desmond Tachie
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Desmond Tachie | ||
| Date of birth | May 1, 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1998–2002 | Vancouver Selects | ||
| 2003 | Capilano College | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2004–2005 | Edmonton Aviators | 13 | (0) |
| 2005 | Ottawa Fury | 15 | (7) |
| 2005 | Toronto Lynx | 10 | (5) |
| 2006–2008 | Kaposvölgye VSC | 33 | (7) |
| 2009 | West Van | ||
| 2009 | Bridges | ||
| 2010 | Charlotte Eagles | 7 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 15, 2010. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Desmond Tachie (born May 1, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian soccer player who last played for Charlotte Eagles in the USL Second Division.
Career
College
Tachie played for the Vancouver Selects and attended Capilano College, who he led to the Canadian Colleges Championship in 2003, earning Canadian Colleges and British Columbia Colleges All-Star selections.
Professional
Tachie turned professional in 2004, playing with the Edmonton Aviators in the USL First Division, appearing in 13 games. Following a successful season with Ottawa Fury in the USL Premier Development League in 2005,[1] dueing which scored 7 goals and 7 assists in 15 games,[2] Tachie signed with the Toronto Lynx.
Tachie moved to Bulgaria in 2007 when he signed for Kaposvölgye VSC. He spent the next two seasons playing in the Bulgarian league, scoring 7 goals in 33 appearances for Kaposvölgye, before returning to North America in 2009.
He trialed with Major League Soccer expansion club Seattle Sounders FC in the early months of 2009, and was a Sounders SuperSearch finalist,[3] but was ultimately not offered a contract by the club, and returned to Canada.[4]
He subsequently played with several Canadian amateur teams, including the Capilano Blues of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League[5] and Athletic Club of BC of the Pacific Coast Soccer League, before signing with the Charlotte Eagles of the USL Second Division in 2010.
Tachie was not listed on the 2011 roster for Charlotte.[6]
Personal
Tachie's family comes from Kumasi in Ghana. His parents emigrated to Canada in the early 1980s, a couple of years before he was born.