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Kevin Cossette (born January 9, 1990) is a
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player who plays for
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club
Royal-Sélect de Beauport Royal-Sélect de Beauport is a Canadian association football, soccer club that plays in the semi-professional Ligue1 Québec. They won the Canadian Challenge Trophy, a national amateur competition, in 2012. History Royal-Sélect de Beauport was fo ...
.


Early life

Cossette was born in
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and grew up in
Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec Saint-Hyacinthe ( , ) is a city in southwestern Quebec east of Montreal on the Yamaska River. The population as of the 2021 Canadian census was 57,239. The city is located in Les Maskoutains Regional County Municipality of the Montérégie r ...
. 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.


Club career

He played for Montreal Impact's junior affiliate,
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, in the
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in 2009, scoring 3 goals in 18 games, prior to formally joining the
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in 2010. 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 Rochester Rhinos, formerly known as the Rochester Raging Rhinos, was an American soccer team based in Rochester, New York, United States. The club won the 1999 U.S. Open Cup, marking the only time a non-MLS team has won the U.S. Open Cup sinc ...
. He attended preseason with the club in 2011, but was released at the very end of the camp, failing to make the 2011 roster. In 2011, he decided to go to university attending
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, where he played for the
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. Starting in 2013, he played with
Royal-Sélect de Beauport Royal-Sélect de Beauport is a Canadian association football, soccer club that plays in the semi-professional Ligue1 Québec. They won the Canadian Challenge Trophy, a national amateur competition, in 2012. History Royal-Sélect de Beauport was fo ...
in the
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, the top amateur division in Quebec. After graduating in 2015, he attended tryouts with
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clubs
Rochester Rhinos Rochester Rhinos, formerly known as the Rochester Raging Rhinos, was an American soccer team based in Rochester, New York, United States. The club won the 1999 U.S. Open Cup, marking the only time a non-MLS team has won the U.S. Open Cup sinc ...
and
Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC is an American professional association football, soccer team based in Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1998 and beginning play in 1999, the club plays in the Eastern Conference (USL), Eastern Conferenc ...
, before ultimately signing with
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. He became the first Laval graduate to sign a professional soccer contract. 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. In 2017, he joined Dynamo de Quebec in the semi-professional
Première Ligue de soccer du Québec A premiere, also spelled première, (from , ) is the debut (first public presentation) of a work, i.e. play, film, dance, musical composition, or even a performer in that work. History Raymond F. Betts attributes the introduction of the film ...
. In 2020, after Dynamo left the PLSQ, he joined
AS Blainville Association de Soccer de Blainville, commonly referred to as A.S. Blainville, is a Canadian semi-professional soccer club based in the Montreal suburb of Blainville, Quebec, that plays in Ligue1 Québec. They are the only club to have participate ...
.


Coaching career

Beginning in 2016, he worked as the technical director of the Mistral Laurentien SC, and in 2020, he joined the Richelieu Valley club in a similar capacity.


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Trois Riviere Attak bio
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