Background
Agbossoumonde was born in Togo, but his family fled to Benin when Gale was an infant.
Agbossoumonde was born in Togo, but his family fled to Benin when Gale was an infant.
Gale attended Christian Brothers Academy until the 9th grade, leading them to a New York State Soccer Championship runner-up finish that year.
At the age of eight, his family moved to Syracuse, New York with the help of a church charity. Club After a semester with the U17 National Team, Agbossoumonde was invited to join Image Academy in Bradenton, Florida. He emerged as a force at centerback, earning high praise for his soccer intelligence quotient and his ability to effectively use his already large frame.
Agbossoumonde signed a three and a half year contract with Traffic Sports Marketing and Miami Football Club on August 6, 2009.
His professional debut shortly followed and he made six appearances during the 2009 USL season. On January 7, 2010, he moved to Sporting Braga of the Portuguese Liga on a six-month loan that included an option to buy.
Braga declined the purchase option when the loan spell ended. Agbossoumonde was sent on loan to Allsvenskan team Djurgårdens IF in 2011.
Agbossoumonde played eight games for Djurgårdens IF during spring 2011, but Djurgården decided not to use their option to buy him out of his contract, and Agbossoumonde left the club at the end of July 2011.
In August 2011, Agbossoumonde was loaned to 2. Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt. Gale received official clearance to play for Eintracht in the beginning of October 2011, and made his debut for the Eintracht reserve squad in a match on October 8 against Société Générale de Surveillance Großaspach.
However, the loan to the German side proved short, too.
In February 2012, Traffic Sports announced that Agbossoumonde was going on loan to Carolina RailHawks of the North American Soccer League. In December 2012, Agbossoumonde joined Toronto Football Club, after he was entered into a weighted lottery to allocate him to a team in Major League Soccer.
Agbossoumonde made his debut for Toronto on April 6 due to an injury to starter Danny Califf, the game ended in a 2-2 home draw to Football Club Dallas. On May 8, 2014, Agbossoumonde was involved in a three-team trade when the Colorado Rapids traded Marvin Chávez to Chivas United States of America for Luke Moore, who was immediately traded by Colorado to Toronto Football Club for Agbossoumonde.
At the conclusion of the 2014 season, Colorado declined Agbossoumonde"s contract option for 2015.
Agbossoumonde signed with Tampa Bay Rowdies of the North American Soccer League in December 2014. He was released in October 2015. In December 2015, Agbossoumonde signed with Fort Lauderdale Strikers of the NASL. International In the tournament in Egypt, although only 17 at the time, he started all games for the United States. Agbossoumonde received his first senior national team cap on his birthday, November 17, 2010, against South Africa in the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup.
United States Individual.
He has been an active member of the United States U-20 team and participated in the 2009 CONCACAF U-20 Championship in Trinidad & Tobago, helping the United States to qualify for the 2009 Fédération internationale de football association U-20 World Cup in Egypt.