EDINBURG, Texas (Friday, Mar. 19, 2021) – The Rio Grande Valley FC Toros announced today that the club has signed forward Elvis Amoh for the 2021 USL Championship season.
“Elvis has a great opportunity to showcase with the Toros his great talent, qualities to score goals and create options for the team this season,” said Wilmer Cabrera, RGV FC Head Coach and Sporting Director. “He is very eager to prove that he can be one of the best forwards in the USL.”
Amoh joins RGV FC after spending the previous two years with fellow Championship club Loudoun United FC. During the 2020 campaign, Amoh started in 10 matches for Loudoun and tallied four goals, totaling 20 shots overall and six on target. In 2019, the Ghana native totaled four goals, 24 shots and 11 on target in Loudoun’s inaugural season. Amoh scored a game-winning goal against Saint Louis FC on Oct. 9, 2019 in a 4-3 victory for his side.
Prior to joining Loudoun United, Amoh made three appearances for SK Lisen in the Czech National Football League second tier in early 2019. The 29-year-old started his professional career with Asante Kotoko SC of the Ghanaian Premier League in 2015 and rejoined in 2017 after a year with the West African Football Academy. In 2017, Amoh joined Capital City FC of the Canadian Soccer League.
TRANSACTION: Rio Grande Valley FC signed forward Elvis Amoh.
ABOUT RIO GRANDE VALLEY FC
The Rio Grande Valley FC Toros (RGV FC) enter their sixth season in the United Soccer League (USL) Championship in 2021. The club plays at H-E-B Park, a state-of-the-art soccer specific stadium that holds 9,700 people, the club trains in H-E-B Park’s world class training facility adjacent to the stadium. RGV FC is the only professional soccer team located within the Rio Grande Valley. In 2016, RGV FC became USL’s first team to develop a hybrid affiliation model with a Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise. This partnership, with Houston Dynamo FC, began in 2016. The relationship has now evolved into a more traditional USL/MLS affiliation where RGV FC manages all aspects of the club and the Dynamo are able to loan players to the Toros for development purposes. For more information, please visit www.www.rgvfc.com/rgvfc.
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