Kevin Cossette

Kevin Cossette (born January 9, 1990) is a Canadian soccer player who plays for Première Ligue de soccer du Québec club Royal-Sélect de Beauport.

Kevin Cossette

Personal information
Full name	Kevin Cossette
Date of birth	(1990-01-09) January 9, 1990 (age 35)
Place of birth	Greenfield Park, Quebec, Canada
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Royal-Sélect de Beauport
Youth career
	Inter St-Hyacinthe
	Cosmos de Granby
	FC Sélect Rive-Sud
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2011–2014	Laval Rouge et Or
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2009	Trois-Rivières Attak	18	(3)
2010–2011	Montreal Impact Academy	18	(2)
2010	→ Montreal Impact (loan)	3	(0)
2013–2015	Royal-Sélect de Beauport	41	(5)
2015	Louisville City FC	4	(0)
2016	Royal-Sélect de Beauport	21	(1)
2017–2019	Dynamo de Québec	51	(7)
2020–2021	AS Blainville	16	(1)
2022–	Royal-Sélect de Beauport	15	(0)
International career
2013	Québec
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of October 2, 2022

Early life

Cossette was born in Greenfield Park, Quebec and grew up in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. He played for numerous amateur and youth teams between 2002 and 2007, including Inter St-Hyacinthe, Cosmos Granby AAA, FC Sélect Rive-Sud AAA and Champlain College AAA.^[1]

Club career

He played for Montreal Impact's junior affiliate, Trois-Rivières Attak, in the Canadian Soccer League in 2009, scoring 3 goals in 18 games, prior to formally joining the Montreal Impact Academy in 2010.^[2]

Cossette was called up to the senior Montreal Impact squad in the summer of 2010, and made his debut for the team on July 3, 2010, in a game against the Rochester Rhinos.^[3] He attended preseason with the club in 2011, but was released at the very end of the camp, failing to make the 2011 roster.^[4]

In 2011, he decided to go to university attending Université Laval, where he played for the soccer team.^[5] Starting in 2013, he played with Royal-Sélect de Beauport in the Ligue de Soccer Elite Quebec, the top amateur division in Quebec.^[6]

After graduating in 2015, he attended tryouts with USL clubs Rochester Rhinos and Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC,^[7] before ultimately signing with Louisville City FC.^[8] He became the first Laval graduate to sign a professional soccer contract.^[7] After the season, he received a contract offer from Pittsburgh, however, due to the low salary, he instead returned to his home in Quebec and re-joined Beauport.^[6]

In 2017, he joined Dynamo de Quebec in the semi-professional Première Ligue de soccer du Québec.^[9] In 2020, after Dynamo left the PLSQ,^[10] he joined AS Blainville.^[11]

Coaching career

Beginning in 2016, he worked as the technical director of the AS Mistral Laurentien, and in 2020, he joined the Richelieu Valley club in a similar capacity.^[12]