Demont Mitchell

Demont Mitchell (born 24 October 1988) is a retired association football player from The Bahamas who had his career cut short by injuries suffered in a car accident.

Demont Mitchell

Personal information
Full name	Demont Mitchell
Date of birth	(1988-10-24) 24 October 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Nassau, Bahamas
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder or Striker
Youth career
2000	Richmond Kickers
2005	Bears FC
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2006–2011	Hofstra Pride	34	(5)
International career‡
	Bahamas U20[1]
	Bahamas U23[2]
2008–2011	Bahamas	6	(1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 8 December 2008 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 23 March 2021

He has dual American-Bahamian citizenship.

Club career

As a child, Mitchell had trials with Southampton and Wolverhampton Wanderers in the English football league. He played for Bears FC in the Bahamas before joining the Hofstra University in 2006.^[3]

International career

Mitchell made his debut for the senior Bahamas in a March 2008 World Cup qualification match against the British Virgin Islands and has earned a total of six caps, scoring 1 goal, all of them in World Cup qualification games.^[4]

His final international was in July 2011 against the Turks and Caicos Islands.

Personal life

Mitchell suffered a serious brain injury in a car accident in the Bahamas in October 2012 which left him in a coma for three weeks.^[5] A foundation dedicated to spread brain injury awareness was named after him in 2014.^[6] Also, a soccer tournament was staged in June 2015 to help in covering his medical expenses.^[7]