Randy Edwini-Bonsu

Football manager infobox
playername = Randy Edwini-Bonsu


fullname = Randolph Edwini-Bonsu
height = height|ft=5|in=05
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1990|4|20|df=y
cityofbirth = Kumasi
countryofbirth = Ghana
dateofdeath =
cityofdeath =
countryofdeath =
currentclub = Vancouver Whitecaps
clubnumber = 17
position = Striker
youthyears = 2002-2007
youthclubs = South West United
years = 2007-
2008
clubs = Vancouver Whitecaps Residency
→Vancouver Whitecaps
caps(goals) = 15 (9)
04 (0)
nationalyears = 2002-2003
2008-
nationalteam = Canada U-17
Canada U-20
nationalcaps(goals) = 15 (2)
pcupdate = 19:47, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
ntupdate = 7 February 2008

Randy Edwini-Bonsu (born April 20 1990 in Kumasi, Ghana) is a Canadian soccer player. He is a midfielder/forward for the Canada men's national U-20 soccer team and for USL First Division's Vancouver Whitecaps. He comes from South West Shore. He started playing soccer when his family immigrated to Edmonton in 2002.

Trivia

On August 15, 2008 he was called from the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency to Vancouver Whitecaps. [http://www.whitecapsfc.com/archive/feature08140801.aspx]

Edwini-Bonsu, 18, returns to the USL-1 side after making his first appearance last May in the Whitecaps international friendly versus Major League Soccer club Los Angeles Galaxy. Edwini-Bonsu played the final 12 minutes in the Whitecaps 3-1 victory in Edmonton, Alberta. Remarkably, only days earlier, the native of Kumasi, Ghana, was named Most Valuable Player in the INSEL-CUP junior international tournament - an international German tournament which saw the Residency team finish third. Following the Galaxy match, Edwini-Bonsu enjoyed a very successful first season in the PDL. In 15 regular season matches, the five-foot-five, 140-pound midfielder/forward led the Residency side in scoring with nine goals and two assists. In addition, he scored five goals in the Whitecaps three PDL playoff matches. His efforts earned him a place in the PDL All-Western Conference Team

Edwini-Bonsu, who started playing soccer when his family immigrated to Edmonton in 2002, earned 15 caps and scored two goals for Canada’s U-17 men’s national team. Edwini-Bonsu has also played for Alberta’s provincial team, winning gold at the National All-Star Championship in 2006. At the club level, Edwini-Bonsu played for South West United in the Edmonton Interdistrict Youth Soccer Association (EIYSA) between 2003 and 2006. In his last year with the club, he led the team to a second-place finish at the club national championship.