Devaun "Sammy" DeGraff (born December 25, 1980) is a retired
Bermudian football
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player.
Club career
DeGraff played the majority of his career with local side
North Village Rams
North Village Rams is a Bermudian football club based in Pembroke Parish
Pembroke Parish is one of the nine parishes of Bermuda. It is named after English aristocrat William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580–1630).
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, and played for the team for one year in the
Bermudian Premier Division
The Bermudian Premier Division (officially the Digicel Premier Division for sponsorship reasons) is the highest level of professional football in Bermuda.
Teams in this league (currently ten) compete for the national title and theoretically ...
before joining the
Bermuda Hogges in the
USL Second Division in 2007. He was mostly used as a holding or attacking midfielder at the ''Villagers''. He also played in Texas for
Dallas Lightning
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.
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He announced his retirement in August 2012.
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International career
He made his debut for Bermuda
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in a September 2006 Caribbean Cup qualification match against the US Virgin Islands and earned a total of 14 caps, scoring 3 goals. He has represented his country in 7 FIFA World Cup qualification
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matches.2010 FIFA World Cup
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, including their 3–1 victory over the Cayman Islands
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on March 30, 2008.
His final international match was a November 2011 World Cup qualification match against Barbados
Barbados is an island country in the Lesser Antilles of the West Indies, in the Caribbean region of the Americas, and the most easterly of the Caribbean Islands. It occupies an area of and has a population of about 287,000 (2019 estimate). ...
.
International goals
:''Scores and results list Bermuda's goal tally first.''
Personal life
DeGraff returned to Bermuda in 2006 to become a music teacher at Whitney Institute. He plays the saxophone himself.[Music teacher hopes to call the tune in midfield]
- Bermuda Sun
Seventh-Day Adventist
DeGraff missed a World Cup qualification match against Trinidad and Tobago
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in 2011 because it was played on a Friday night, which did not met his beliefs as a Seventh-Day Adventist. In March 2013, he co-hosted a show on the local Seventh Day Adventist television station, Channel 80.
References
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1980 births
Living people
Men's association football midfielders
Bermudian men's footballers
Bermuda men's international footballers
North Village Rams players
Bermuda Hogges F.C. players
USL Second Division players
Bermudian Seventh-day Adventists