Career
Early life and college Born near the Firestone rubber plantation, Gbandi and his family fled from his native Liberia to Houston, Texas following the outbreak of the First Liberian Civil War in 1989, when he was just six years old. Gbandi went on to attend Jersey Village High School, played club soccer for the Houston Dynamos and the Houston Texans as a youth, and played four years of college soccer at University of Alabama at Birmingham. Gbandi played in 56 games for UAB, scoring 10 goals and adding 14 assists.
As a sophomore in 2004 he was selected First Team All-Conference United States of America and then was named Second Team All-Conference United States of America a year later.
Professional Gbandi left school early when he was selected in the 2007 Master of Library Science Supplemental Draft by Football Club Dallas, but he never saw any first team-minutes with the team, and was waived at the end of the season. Gbandi stayed with Puerto Rico through the 2010 season.
On March 15, 2011, Gbandi signed with National Security Council Minnesota Stars of the second division North American Soccer League. He was released by the club on November 29, 2011.
Sandy"s brother, Chris Gbandi, is also a professional soccer player.
They played together at Football Club Dallas in 2007 and against each other in 2010, when Chris joined Miami Football Club. Puerto Rico Islanders.