Kyle Thomson
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 14 January 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Park Ridge, Illinois, United States | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Sockers F.C. | |||
Loyola Ramblers | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2016 | Ocean City Nor'easters | 14 | (0) |
2017 | Michigan Bucks | ? | (?) |
2017–2018 | Loyola Ramblers | ? | (?) |
2018 | Greenock Morton | 0 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 November 2018 |
Kyle Thomson (born 14 January 1996) is an American footballer, who last played for Greenock Morton. He is a midfielder who came through college football with Loyola Ramblers.
His father is Dougie Thomson, the Scottish bassist, who was formerly of The Alan Bown Set & Supertramp. His uncle is the Scottish songwriter/singer, Ali Thomson.[citation needed]
Club career
Born in Illinois, Thomson started playing with Chicago youth side Sockers F.C. before moving to university side Loyola Ramblers in 2014 where he played every game for three successive seasons.[1]
He then played two seasons in the Premier Development League where was a key player for the Ocean City Nor'easters in their run to the PDL Final Four in 2016 and then helped the Michigan Bucks win a league-record 14th division title in 2017 before returning briefly to Loyola.[2]
Moving abroad
Thomson had a trial with then Football League Championship side Leicester City.[1]
In 2018, Thomson signed with Scottish Championship side Greenock Morton.[3] He made his senior debut in a Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Dumbarton.[4] Thomson was released in November 2018 after failing to play in any league fixtures for Morton.[5]
Honours
Club
- Michigan Bucks
- Premier Development League
- Great Lakes Division winners: 2017
- Premier Development League
Personal
- Second Team NSCAA All-West Region - 2015
- Second Team All-Missouri Valley Conference - 2015, 2016
- Missouri Valley Conference Freshman of the Year - 2014
- Missouri Valley Conference All-Freshman Team - 2014
References
- ^ a b "Kyle Thomson - 2016 Men's roster". loyolaramblers.com. Loyola Ramblers. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "Kyle Thomson". midwestprocombine.com. Midwest Pro Soccer Combine. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ "Kyle Thomson". gmfc.net. Greenock Morton F.C. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ Jonathan Mitchell (15 August 2018). "Match report: Dumbarton 2-1 Morton". gmfc.net. Greenock Morton F.C. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- ^ Jonathan Mitchell (29 November 2018). "Kyle Thomson departs Cappielow". gmfc.net. Greenock Morton F.C. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
External links
- Kyle Thomson at Soccerbase
- Articles with short description
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- Articles without Wikidata item
- All articles with unsourced statements
- Articles with unsourced statements from November 2018
- Soccerbase player ID not in Wikidata
- 1996 births
- American expatriate soccer players
- American expatriate sportspeople in the United Kingdom
- American soccer players
- Association football midfielders
- Expatriate footballers in Scotland
- Greenock Morton F.C. players
- Living people
- Loyola University Chicago alumni
- Flint City Bucks players
- Ocean City Nor'easters players
- Soccer players from Illinois
- Sportspeople from Park Ridge, Illinois