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Alex Touche - Wikipedia

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Alex Touche
Personal information
Full name	Alexander Touche^[1]
Date of birth	(1999-06-02) 2 June 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth	London, England
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Youth career
2009–2017	Rio Rapids SC
2015–2017	Colorado Rapids
College career
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2017–2020	Penn Quakers	44	(8)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2017–2019	Albuquerque Sol	23	(3)
2021	New Mexico United	3	(0)
2022	Union Omaha	25	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of October 16, 2022

Alexander Touche (born 2 June 1999) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender.

Career

Youth

Touche was a four-year letter winner at the Albuquerque Academy, helping the team to New Mexico Activities Association state championships in 2015 and 2016. During his time at the Academy, Touche was named first-team All-State, All-District and All-Metro in 2016, All-state Player of the Year, District Player of the Year, first-team All-State, All-District and All-Metro in 2015, First-team All-State, All-District and District Player of the Year in 2014, and an honorable mention All-State in 2013.^[2]

College and amateur

In 2017, Touche attended the University of Pennsylvania to play college soccer. In three seasons with the Quakers, Touche made 44 appearances and scored 8 goals. The Ivy League season was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. During his three seasons, Touche was named Second-team All-Ivy in 2017, First-team All-Ivy in 2018 and 2019, and third-team United Soccer Coaches, All-Region in Northeast, All-ECAC and the Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year in 2019.^[2]

Whilst at college, Touche also played in the USL League Two with Albuquerque Sol, making 23 regular seasons appearances over 3 seasons.^[3]^[4]^[5]

Professional

On 12 January 2021, Touche signed with USL Championship side New Mexico United.^[6] He made his professional debut on 29 May, appearing as an injury-time substitute during a 1–0 loss to Loudoun United.^[7]

On 8 March 2022 Union Omaha announced they had signed Touche to play in the 2022 season.^[8]

Personal life

Touche was born in London, England, but also lived in Albuquerque, New Mexico.^[2] His twin brother, Charles, played college soccer at Cornell University.^[9]

Career statistics

As of 30 May 2021^[1]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Albuquerque Sol FC	2017^[3]	USL PDL	5	0	—		—		5	0
	2018^[4]	USL PDL	9	1	—		—		9	1
	2019^[5]	USL League Two	9	2	—		—		9	2
	Total		23	3	—		—		23	3
New Mexico United	2021	USL Championship	3	0	—		—		3	0
Career total			26	3	0	0	0	0	26	3

References

^ ^a ^b Alex Touche at Soccerway. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Alex Touche - Men's Soccer". University of Pennsylvania Athletics.
^ ^a ^b "Albuquerque Sol F.C. - 2017 Regular Season - Roster - # - Alex Touche -". www.uslleaguetwo.com.
^ ^a ^b "Albuquerque Sol F.C. - 2018 Regular Season - Roster - # - Alexander Touche -". www.uslleaguetwo.com.
^ ^a ^b "Albuquerque Sol FC | uslleaguetwo.com". www.uslleaguetwo.com.
^ Staff, New Mexico United (12 January 2021). "NEW MEXICO UNITED ANNOUNCES THE SIGNING OF ALBUQUERQUE NATIVE ALEX TOUCHE". New Mexico United.
^ "New Mexico United vs. Loudoun United FC - May 29, 2021 | USLChampionship.com". www.uslchampionship.com.
^ Revia, Nick (8 March 2022). "Union Omaha sign former U of Penn standout defender". fox42kptm.com. KPTM. Retrieved 10 March 2022.
^ Lim, Esther. "Penn men's soccer's Alex Touche signs professional contract with hometown team". www.thedp.com.

External links

Penn profile

v t e Ivy League Men's Soccer Player of the Year
Player of the Year	1979: Charles 1980: Nix 1981: Nix 1982: Sirtis 1983: Sirtis 1984: Gayle 1985: Banks 1986: Duback 1987: Chin 1988: MacGinnitie 1989: Zanobi 1990: Barlow 1991: DiMaggio 1992: Head 1993: Dadason 1994: Eales 1995: Hughes 1996: Kohler 1997: McLaughlin 1998: Gould 1999: Marcio 2000: Gibbs 2001: Nugent 2002: Haefner 2003: Crew 2004: Spicer 2005: Altchek 2006: Altchek 2007: Britner 2008: Henderson 2009: Akpan 2010: Hoppenot 2011: Mkosana 2012: Haber
Offensive Player of the Year	2013: Lacroix 2014: Porter 2015: Sanner 2016: Bosua 2017: Bosua 2018: O'Toole 2019: Winhoffer 2020: not awarded 2021: O'Toole 2022: Korzeniowski 2023: Arlotti
Defensive Player of the Year	2013: Slogic 2014: Ashby 2015: Cleveland 2016: Omsberg 2017: Omsberg 2018: Castanheira 2019: Touche 2020: not awarded 2021: Haddock 2022: Burney 2023: Presthus