Charlotte FC waives first goal scorer Adam Armour

PHOTO | STEVE GOLDBERG

Burlington native Adam Armour (right), who scored the first goal in Charlotte FC history on March 13, 2022, was waived by the club on Wednesday.

In one of the more painful aspects that is the reality of professional sports, Charlotte FC announced late Wednesday that the club has waived defender Adam Armour. 

The 20-year-old Burlington native was one of the first signings by Charlotte on June 29, 2021.

As the team continued to be put together for its inaugural season last year, Armour played with Brandt Bronico and Christian Fuchs for the Charlotte Independence in the USL Championship over the 2021 season.
 
He will always be remembered and honored in Crown lore for scoring the first goal in team history against Atlanta United in the club’s third-ever match on March 13, 2022.

After a Josef Martinez penalty kick had put the I-85 rivals ahead in the 60th minute, Armour scored six minutes later and it looked like Charlotte would grab their first MLS point, only to be dashed by a Five-Stripes winner six minutes into added time.

Armour played six times for the team – five in MLS and one U.S. Open Cup – in 2022 before discovering, after starting and playing 120 minutes against Greenville Triumph in that Cup match last April, that he had been playing on a damaged ACL in his left knee for some time. Surgery for that ended his season.

The left back featured four times for Crown Legacy FC this season as he worked to contend for first team minutes. His two assists helped the Legacy defeat the New York Red Bulls II 3-1 on the road two weeks ago.

Holding both U.S. and Jamaican citizenship, Armour represented his country of birth 19 times including the U.S. U-17 Men’s National Team at the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil and the 2019 Concacaf U-17 Championship. He played with the North Carolina FC Academy in and the parent USL club in Cary before moving on to German second division FC Nürnberg in the summer of 2020 before coming to Charlotte on a free transfer a year later.

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