Keithy Simpson
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Keithy Simpson | ||
Date of birth | 19 April 1990 | ||
Place of birth | Kingston, Jamaica | ||
Height | 6 ft 0 in (1.83 m) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder / Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Waterhouse FC | ||
Youth career | |||
2005–2007 | Bull Bay F.C. | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2007–2008 | Cavalier S.C. | ||
2008–2011 | Sporting Central Academy | 18 | (0) |
2009 | → Whitecaps Residency (loan) | 12 | (1) |
2011–2011 | Portmore United F.C. | 10 | (0) |
2011–2012 | Tivoli Gardens F.C. | 45 | (5) |
2012–2014 | North East Stars F.C. | 30 | (3) |
2014–2015 | Vaasan Palloseura | 21 | (3) |
2016 | Águila | 3[1] | (0) |
2016 | Club Sando | ||
2017 | San Juan Jabloteh | 10 | (1) |
2017–2018 | Waterhouse FC | ||
International career | |||
2008–2009 | Jamaica U20 | 12 | (1) |
2014– | Jamaica | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Keithy Simpson (born 19 April 1990, in Kingston) is a Jamaican professional footballer.
Career
Youth and Amateur
Simpson attended Donald Quarrie High School and Hydel High School in Jamaica and played club soccer for Sporting Central Academy before joining the youth academy of Canadian team Vancouver Whitecaps joining Jamaica youth national teammate Dever Orgill. He featured in matches against the youth academies of Eintracht Frankfurt and Leicester City at the XXIX Dallas Cup, and played in the USL Premier Development League with the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency team in 2009.[2] He also traveled to Germany with the club and competed against the U-19 team of Hertha Berlin and others.
Senior
After featuring for Sporting Central Academy most of his career, Simpson move to Portmore United in January 2011. He spent 18 months with North East Stars FC of the TT Pro League from September 2012. In March 2014, Simpson signed with Vaasan Palloseura in Finland.[3] In 2016, Simpson signed with Águila in El Salvador.[4]
International
Simpson was a member of the Jamaica under-17 squad during the 2017 CONCACAF U-17 Championship qualifiers 2007 in Kingston, Jamaica and 2009 CONCACAF U-20 World Cup qualifiers in Scarborough, Tobago.
In August 2011, Simpson played in the CFU Olympic qualifiers in Suriname for Jamaica. On 30 May 2014, he made his debut for the Jamaica senior team against Switzerland, as a second-half substitute in Lucerne.
He was called up to play against Egypt on 4 June, and France on 8 June, but was unable to travel with the team due to club commitments.
On 9 September 2014 he earned his second cap in a 3–1 away defeat to Canada.
References
- ^ http://www.ceroacero.es/player.php?id=310836
- ^ "WhitecapsFC.com – PDL – Keithy Simpson".[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 14 April 2014.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ Gráfico, El. "Águila presentará esta tarde a un refuerzo jamaicano".
External links
- Keithy Simpson at Soccerway
- 1990 births
- Living people
- Expatriate soccer players in Canada
- Association football forwards
- Jamaican expatriate footballers
- Jamaican expatriate sportspeople in Canada
- Jamaican footballers
- Jamaica under-20 international footballers
- Vancouver Whitecaps Residency players
- USL League Two players
- TT Pro League players
- Expatriate footballers in Trinidad and Tobago
- North East Stars F.C. players
- Jamaica international footballers
- Sporting Central Academy players
- 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship players
- Veikkausliiga players
- Vaasan Palloseura players
- Expatriate footballers in Finland