Kurlson Benjamin (born 7 December 1984) is a Dominican professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a striker for Bath Estate and the Dominica national team. He plays as a striker. He is currently his country's all-time top goalscorer with 14 goals.

Club career

Born in

Dominica Dominica, officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island country in the Caribbean. It is part of the Windward Islands chain in the Lesser Antilles archipelago in the Caribbean Sea. The capital, Roseau, is located on the western side of t ...

, he joined Bath Estate in 2007. Near the end of 2010 he played in Guyana's Kashif and Shanghai cup competition for Alpha United as a guest player alongside Grenada international

Kithson Bain Kithson Anthony Bain (born 26 May 1982) is a Grenadian footballer currently playing for Caledonia AIA in the Trinidad and Tobago Premier League. He has been capped at full international level by the Grenada national football team. Club career ...

International career

He made his debut for

on 18 January 2008 against

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. It took him until his fourth game to score, when he netted in a 4–0 win over the

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. He netted his second goal, in a 2–0 win over

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in a friendly. Just a day later he scored all three of Dominica's goals as he scored a hat-trick against the same team. On 15 October 2010, he scored five in a 10–0 win over the

in the

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, he scored another two later in the tournament as Dominica were beaten 4–2 by

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Dominica's goal tally first.''

Honours

Bath Estate * DFA Premier League: 2013

References

External links

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Caribbean Football Database profile
1984 births Living people Men's association football forwards Dominica men's footballers Dominica men's international footballers Bath Estate FC players Expatriate men's footballers in Guyana Alpha United FC players {{Dominica-footy-bio-stub