Desmond Tachie

Desmond Tachie
Personal information
Full name	Desmond Tachie-Mason
Date of birth	(1984-05-01) May 1, 1984
Place of birth	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Height	5 ft 8 in (1.73 m)
Playing position	Forward
Club information
Current team	West Van FC
Number	19
Youth career
1998–2002	Vancouver Selects
2003	Capilano College
2013-2014	Capilano Blues^[1]
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
2009	Athletic Club of BC^[2]
2010	Charlotte Eagles	7	(0)
2011	Aalborg BK B^[3]
2012	Rovers United^[4]
2012	Fremad Amager^[5]	4	(0)
2013-	West Van FC^[6]
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Desmond Tachie-Mason (born May 1, 1984 in Vancouver, British Columbia) is a Canadian soccer player, who is currently playing and working as coach for the Vancouver Metro Soccer League club West Van FC.^[7]

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,^[8] dueing which scored 7 goals and 7 assists in 15 games,^[9] Tachie signed with the Toronto Lynx.

Tachie moved to Hungary in 2007 when he signed for Kaposvölgye VSC. He spent the next two seasons playing in the Hungarian 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,^[10] but was ultimately not offered a contract by the club, and returned to Canada.^[11]

He subsequently played with several Canadian amateur teams, including the Capilano Blues of the Vancouver Metro Soccer League^[12] 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 played for Aalborg BK in Denmark before moving back to Vancouver, Canada in 2013 where he is currently a staff coach at West Vancouver Soccer Club, and the assistant coach for Capilano University’s men’s team.

Personal

Tachie comes from Kumasi in Ghana. He emigrated to Canada in the mid 1990s.

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