Ezra Armstrong (born December 15, 1998) is an American professional

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player who plays as a defender for

North Carolina FC North Carolina FC is an American professional association football, soccer team in Cary, North Carolina, a suburb of Raleigh, North Carolina, Raleigh, and member of the USL Championship. Founded in 2006, the team previously was named the Caro ...

in the

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a men's professional association football, soccer league in the second tier of the United States soccer league system#Men's leagues, United States league system. It is organized by the United Soccer League (USL) a ...

Career

Armstrong signed to

Sporting Kansas City Sporting Kansas City is an American professional Association football, soccer club based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. The ad ...

United Soccer League The United Soccer League (USL) is an organizer of various professional and amateur soccer leagues in the United States league system. It currently organizes its Championship, League One, and League Two for men, its Super League and W Leag ...

affiliate side

Swope Park Rangers Sporting Kansas City II is a MLS Next Pro club affiliated with Sporting Kansas City of Major League Soccer. For the 2022 season they will play their home games at Kansas Jayhawks, Rock Chalk Park at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, ...

from their academy on March 10, 2016. In 2018, Armstrong joined German 6th-tier side Türkspor Augsburg. Armstrong signed to

Skovshoved IF Skovshoved Idrætsforening, or Skovshoved IF, is a Danish sports club. The association football, football team is currently playing in the sixth-tier Copenhagen Series. They play at Skovshoved Idrætspark (also referred to as ''Banen ved Krøye ...

in the Fall of 2019. On February 15, 2021, Armstrong returned to the United States, joining

side

Pittsburgh Riverhounds Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC is an American professional soccer team based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1998 and beginning play in 1999, the club plays in the Eastern Conference of the USL Championship, the second tier of the American ...

. On February 7, 2022, Armstrong joined

MLS Next Pro MLS Next Pro (MLSNP) is a men's professional association football, soccer league in the United States and Canada that is affiliated with Major League Soccer (MLS). It launched in 2022 with 21 teams and now comprises 27 reserve sides of MLS clu ...

side St. Louis City 2 ahead of the league's inaugural season. Armstrong moved to

club

on December 15, 2023.

Personal

Ezra is the son of former

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international Desmond Armstrong.

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Swope Park Rangers Profile
1998 births Living people American men's soccer players Sporting Kansas City II players Men's association football defenders Soccer players from Tennessee USL Championship players MLS Next Pro players Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC players American expatriate men's soccer players in Germany American expatriate sportspeople in Denmark Expatriate men's footballers in Denmark American expatriate men's soccer players National Premier Soccer League players Sportspeople from Nashville, Tennessee Sportspeople from Gastonia, North Carolina St. Louis City 2 players 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-footy-defender-1990s-stub