Joseph Afful is a soccer

Football (soccer)

Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a sport played between two teams of eleven players with a spherical ball...

 player, who plays for the Brooklyn Knights

Brooklyn Knights

Brooklyn Knights is an American soccer team based in New York, New York, United States. Founded in 1999, the team plays in the USL Premier Development League , the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Mid Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference.The team plays its home games at the...

 of the USL Premier Development League

USL Premier Development League

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.

Career

Afful came to the United States

United States

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 to play college soccer

College soccer

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, first with St. Francis College where he was a three time All-Northeast Conference player from 2000 to 2003, and then an Atlantic Soccer Conference

Atlantic Soccer Conference

Atlantic Soccer Conference is a college athletic conference which only sponsors men's soccer. The conference participates in the NCAA's Division I and its champion does not receive an automatic bid to the annual NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Tournament. It was founded in 2000 with nine colleges...

 player in 2003 with Adelphi University

Adelphi University

Adelphi University is a private, nonsectarian university located in Garden City, in Nassau County, New York, United States. It is the oldest institution of higher education on Long Island. For the sixth year, Adelphi University has been named a “Best Buy” in higher education by the Fiske Guide to...

. After college, Afful went on to play with the Atlanta Silverbacks

Atlanta Silverbacks

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 after being released from the New England Revolution

New England Revolution

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prior to joining the Knights in 2007.