Tristan Michael Blackmon (born August 12, 1996) is an American professional

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player who plays as a defender for

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club

Vancouver Whitecaps FC Vancouver Whitecaps Football Club is a Canadian professional Association football, soccer club based in Vancouver. The Whitecaps compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. The MLS ite ...

Early life

He attended

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, a suburb of

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College career

Blackmon played his college career at University of the Pacific where he played mainly as a defender after starting as a forward. Blackmon played 70 matches for the Tigers, starting 68. He scored 16 goals and had nine assists. Blackmon finished his collegiate soccer career as the Tigers' all-time goal scoring leader, until Camden Riley broke his record one year later.

Club career

Blackmon played for

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sides Orange County SC U-23 and Burlingame Dragons. On January 19, 2018,

Los Angeles FC Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) is an American professional association football, soccer club based in Los Angeles. The club competes in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. It was establi ...

selected Blackmon with the third overall pick of the

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. He signed with the club on February 22, 2018. Blackmon made his professional debut on March 4, 2018, as an 80th-minute substitute during a 1–0 win over

Seattle Sounders FC Seattle Sounders FC is an American professional association football, soccer club based in Seattle. The Sounders compete in Major League Soccer (MLS) as a member of the Western Conference (MLS), Western Conference. The club was established on ...

. On May 24, 2019, at

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, in a 4–2 win over the Montreal Impact, Blackmon scored his first professional goal on a header in the fifty-fifth minute. On December 14, 2021, Blackmon was selected by

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in the 2021 MLS Expansion Draft, before being immediately traded to

in exchange for $475,000 of General Allocation Money. On July 26, 2022, Blackmon scored the winning penalty kick against

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in the Canadian Championship Final.

Career statistics

Honors

Los Angeles FC *

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2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Vancouver Whitecaps *

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 ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

2024 The year saw the list of ongoing armed conflicts, continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Myanmar civil war (2021–present), Myanmar civil war, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudane ...

References

Living people 1996 births American men's soccer players Men's association football defenders Pacific Tigers men's soccer players Orange County SC U-23 players Burlingame Dragons FC players Los Angeles FC players Phoenix Rising FC players Vancouver Whitecaps FC players Los Angeles FC draft picks Soccer players from Las Vegas USL League Two players Major League Soccer players 21st-century American sportsmen {{US-footy-defender-1990s-stub