Sebastian Jean-Baptiste Breza (born March 15, 1998) is a Canadian professional

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player who plays as a

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for

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club

CF Montréal Club de Foot Montréal () is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Montreal. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Eastern Conference (MLS), Eastern Conference. Founded in 1992 as the Mo ...

Club career

Early career

Breza was nine years old when he started playing soccer at FS Salaberry. As a youth, Breza played goaltender in both hockey and soccer. In 2016, he signed with

Serie C The Serie C (), officially known as Serie C NOW for sponsorship purposes, is the third-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie B and Serie A. The Lega Italiana Calcio Professionistico (Lega Pro) is the governing ...

club

Monopoli Monopoli (; ) is a town and comune, municipality in Italy, in the Metropolitan City of Bari and region of Apulia. The town is roughly in area and lies on the Adriatic Sea about southeast of Bari. It has a population of 49,246 (2014), ...

, and was loaned to

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club

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in 2017, initially playing for the latter's Primavera side. Breza made three appearances on the bench for Palermo's first team squad in the 2016–17 Serie A season.

Potenza

In 2017, Breza signed for

Serie D The Serie D () is the highest level of semi-professional football in Italy, and the fourth tier of the Italian national league system. It sits beneath the third and lowest fully professional league, Serie C, and feeds in to it through promotion ...

club

Potenza Potenza (, ; ; , Potentino dialect: ''Putenz'') is a ''comune'' in the Southern Italian region of Basilicata (former Lucania). Capital of the Province of Potenza and the Basilicata region, the city is the highest regional capital and one of ...

, helping them gain promotion to Serie C for the 2018–19 season. During the offseason, he was rumoured to go to fellow Serie D club

Taranto Taranto (; ; previously called Tarent in English) is a coastal city in Apulia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Taranto, serving as an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base. Founded by Spartans ...

. In his second season, Breza largely played a backup role to Raffaele Ioime, but made 8 starts. In January 2020, Breza was linked with a move to

club

Bologna Bologna ( , , ; ; ) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in northern Italy. It is the List of cities in Italy, seventh most populous city in Italy, with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different nationalities. Its M ...

Bologna

On January 29, 2020, he joined

club

on loan until June 30, 2020. Bologna held an obligation to purchase his rights at the end of the loan.

Loan to CF Montréal

On April 6, 2021, Breza was loaned to

for the 2021 season. He made his debut on August 8 against D.C. United. Breza was given the start in the semifinal of the

2021 Canadian Championship The 2021 Canadian Championship was the fourteenth edition of the Canadian Championship, contested from August 15 to November 21, 2021. The winners of the tournament, CF Montréal, were awarded the Voyageurs Cup and earned a berth in the 2022 CONC ...

against

Forge FC Forge FC, also known as Forge Football Club, Forge FC Hamilton, or Hamilton Forge FC, is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Hamilton, Ontario, that competes in the Canadian Premier League, the top tier of Canadia ...

, and the game went to penalties after a 0-0 after 90 minutes. The shootout was still tied after 10 rounds, and Breza was able to stop the shot from Forge goalkeeper

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, before scoring himself to win the game and advance Montréal to the final. CF Montréal went on to win the

Voyageurs Cup The Voyageurs Cup () is the domestic trophy for professional soccer in Canada, awarded to the best men's and women's clubs in the country. The Cup was conceived and commissioned by fans of the Canada men's national team, the Voyageurs, in 20 ...

and Breza was honoured with the George Gross Memorial Trophy as the most valuable player of the tournament. Upon completion of the 2021 season, CF Montréal announced they would not exercise the option to purchase Breza's contract. However, in January 2022 CF Montréal announced Breza would return to the club for the 2022 season on loan.

Loan to Carrarese

On 27 January 2023, Breza joined

side

Carrarese Carrarese Calcio 1908, commonly referred to as Carrarese, is an Italian football club based in Carrara, Tuscany. The team plays in Serie B, second tier of Italian football, after promotion from Serie C in 2023–24. History The club was foun ...

on loan until the end of the season.

Loan to Yverdon

On July 12, 2023, he joined

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club

Yverdon Yverdon-les-Bains () (called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Ancient Rome, Roman era) is a municipalities of Switzerland, municipality in the district of Jura-North Vaudois District, Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It ...

on a season long loan.

Return to CF Montréal

On January 15, 2024, Breza made the permanent move to

on a two-year deal.

International career

Breza was born in Canada to a Polish father and Norwegian mother, and holds dual citizenship with Canada and Norway. He attended his first camp for the Canadian U-20 team in 2016. Breza was named to the Canadian U-23 provisional roster for the

2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship The 2020 CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship was the fifteenth and final edition of the CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying Championship, CONCACAF Men's Olympic Qualifying, the quadrennial, international, age-restricted association footbal ...

on February 26, 2020.

Career statistics

Honours

CF Montreal *

Canadian Championship The Canadian Championship () is an annual soccer tournament contested by Canadian professional teams. The winner is awarded the Voyageurs Cup and a berth in the CONCACAF Champions Cup. It is contested by Major League Soccer sides Toronto FC, Va ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

Individual * George Gross Memorial Trophy: 2021

References

External links

CF Montréal profile
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Breza, Sebastian 1998 births Living people Canadian people of Polish descent Canadian people of Norwegian descent Canadian men's soccer players Soccer players from Ottawa Men's association football goalkeepers SS Monopoli 1966 players Palermo FC players Potenza Calcio players Bologna FC 1909 players CF Montréal players Carrarese Calcio 1908 players Yverdon-Sport FC players Serie C players Serie D players Major League Soccer players Canada men's youth international soccer players Canadian expatriate men's soccer players Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Canadian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland 21st-century Canadian sportsmen

Club career

Early career

Potenza

Bologna

Loan to CF Montréal

Loan to Carrarese

Loan to Yverdon

Return to CF Montréal

International career

Career statistics

Honours

See also

References

External links