Gershon Koffie

Koffie in the jersey of the Whitecaps (2010)

Gershon Koffie (born 25 August 1991 Koforidua ) is a Ghanaian footballer who currently plays for the Vancouver Whitecaps in Major League Soccer. He mainly plays as a defensive midfielder.

Career

Koffie was nine years old taken in 2000 Red-White Accra, a youth soccer club from Accra, which is also supported by Rot-Weiss Essen. After six years at RW Accra 2006 he joined the International Allies FC, ​​a club based in Ho, who is known for his talent work. There Koffie played from 2006 to 2009 in the reserve team of the club in the third- highest division of Ghana. Without having played higher class in Ghana, the central midfielder in 2009 went to Europe and played for several months in the Swedish first division club Hammarby IF and then in Denmark Randers FC before, but received no contract.

Koffie was eventually discovered by Tom Soehn, sports director of the Canadian club Vancouver Whitecaps, during a scouting trip. On September 3, 2010 Koffie signed a contract with the Whitecaps in the USSF Division played at this time 2 Professional League and were taken to the next season in the Major League Soccer. Koffie played until end of season two league games and was subsequently also in all four games of the Championship play-offs for Vancouver in use, but he also scored his first competitive goal. In February 2011, he shared with the Tanzanian Nizar Khalfan of head coach Teitur Þórðarson a contract for the MLS. Þórðarson singled out, in particular Koffies skills in winning the ball, his understanding of the game and his physically robust but disciplined style of play.

After Koffie for the first time took part in a training camp of Ghana's U-20 national team in July 2010, he was nominated by junior coach Orlando Wellington in April 2011 for the U-20 African Cup of Nations 2011. There he came to two inserts, but the Ghanaian team missed the semi-finals and the associated qualifying for the Junior World Cup 2011 in Colombia.