Kevin Cossette

Kevin Cossette (born January 9, 1990) is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Première Ligue de soccer du Québec club AS Blainville.

Kevin Cossette
Personal information
Full name Kevin Cossette
Date of birth (1990-01-09) January 9, 1990
Place of birth Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 AS Blainville
Number 7
Youth career
Inter St-Hyacinthe
Cosmos de Granby
FC Sélect Rive-Sud
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2014 Laval Rouge et Or
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009 Trois-Rivières Attak 18 (3)
2010–2011 Montreal Impact Academy 18 (2)
2010 → Montreal Impact (loan) 3 (0)
2013–2015 Royal-Sélect de Beauport 41 (5)
2015 Louisville City FC 4 (0)
2016 Royal-Sélect de Beauport 21 (1)
2017–2019 Dynamo de Québec 51 (7)
2020– AS Blainville 4 (1)
National team
2013 Québec
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 19, 2020

Career

Cossette was born in Greenfield Park, Quebec and grew up in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. He played for numerous amateur and youth teams between 2002 and 2007, including Inter St-Hyacinthe, Cosmos Granby AAA, FC Sélect Rive-Sud AAA and Champlain College AAA.[1] He played for Montreal Impact's junior affiliate, Trois-Rivières Attak, in the Canadian Soccer League in 2009, scoring 3 goals in 18 games, prior to formally joining the Montreal Impact Academy in 2010.[2]

Cossette was called up to the senior Montreal Impact squad in the summer of 2010, and made his debut for the team on July 3, 2010 in a game against the Rochester Rhinos.[3] He attended preseason with the club in 2011, but was released at the very end of the camp, failing to make the 2011 roster.[4]

In 2011, he decided to go to university attending Université Laval, where he played for the soccer team.[5] Starting in 2013, he played with Royal-Sélect de Beauport in the Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec, the top amateur division in Quebec.[6]

After graduating in 2015, he attended tryouts with USL clubs Rochester Rhinos and Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC,[7] before ultimately signing with Louisville City FC.[8] He became the first Laval graduate to sign a professional soccer contract.[7] After the season, he received a contract offer from Pittsburgh, however, due to the low salary, he instead returned to his home in Quebec and re-joined Beauport.[6]

In 2017, he joined Dynamo de Quebec in the semi-professional Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.[9] In 2020, after Dynamo left the PLSQ,[10] he joined AS Blainville.[11]

He served as the technical director of the Mistral Laurentien SC beginning in 2016 and then in 2020 took the same position with the Richelieu Valley club.[12]

Career stats
Team Season League Domestic
League		 Domestic
Playoffs		 Domestic
Cup1		 Concacaf
Competition2		 Total
Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists Apps Goals Assists
Trois-Rivières Attak 2009 CSL 18 3 - - - - - - - - - - 18 3 0
Montreal Impact Academy 2010 CSL 18 2 5 - - - - - - - - - 18 2 5
Montreal Impact 2010 USSF D2 3 0 0 - - - - - - - - - 3 0 0
Total CSL3655---------3655
Total USSF D2300---------300

References
  1. "Kevin Cossette". Trois-Rivières Attak. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011.
  2. "Montreal Impact Academy". Canadian Soccer League. October 2, 2010. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. Retrieved 2020-09-17.
  3. "Rochester Rhinos vs Montreal Impact 2:1". USSF Division 2 Professional League. July 3, 2010.
  4. Maxime Prévost Durand (April 18, 2013). "Kevin Cossette fait la paix avec le passé" [Kevin Cossette makes peace with the past]. Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe (in French).
  5. Tristan D'Amours (July 31, 2015). "Kevin Cossette: From Rouge et Or to Purple". USL Radio.
  6. Marc Tougas (August 10, 2017). "Tête à Tête...Avec Kevin Cossette, Le Dynamo au Vécu de Pro" [Head to Head... With Kevin Cossette, the Dynamo Live from the Pro]. PLSQ (in French).
  7. Simon Cliche (July 14, 2015). "Kevin Cossette signe avec le Louisville City FC" [Kevin Cossette signs with Louisville City FC]. Le Journal de Québec (in French).
  8. Jonathan Lintner (July 15, 2015). "LCFC signs Canadian midfielder Cossette". The Courier-Journal.
  9. Guillaume Piedboeuf (May 8, 2019). "Le Dynamo veut vendre de l'émotion" [The Dynamo wants to sell emotion]. Ici Radio-Canada Télé (in French).
  10. "Le Dynamo de Québec quitte la Première ligue de soccer" [The Dynamo de Québec leaves the Premier league of soccer]. Ici Radio-Canada Télé (in French). November 7, 2019.
  11. Marc Tougas (August 26, 2020). "L'AS Blainville en Année de Transition" [AS Blanville in a Year of Transition]. PLSQ (in French).
  12. "Kévin Cossette rentre à St-Hyacinthe" [Kévin Cossette returns to St-Hyacinthe]. Just eSoccer (in French). February 19, 2020.
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