Jamaican International Dino Williams Joins Indy Eleven On Loan
Indy Eleven has added more punch to its attack with Tuesday’s addition of Jamaican Red Stripe Premier League leading scorer Dino Williams on loan from Montego Bay United.
The Jamaican international is the 23rd player signed to the Indy Eleven roster for the 2016 season. Williams will occupy the team’s seventh and final available international player slot. Williams will join the Indy Eleven camp following the completion of his visa application process in the coming weeks, potentially as early as the team’s spring training trip to Arizona beginning next Monday.
“There are strikers and there are goal scorers, and Dino is a goalscorer, but he also possesses the versatility to be a dangerous performer on the wings,” Indy Eleven coach Tim Hankinson said. “He recently proved in the CONCACAF Champions League that he can get goals against quality competition, and we look forward to him continuing that trend against NASL opposition this season.”
Williams joins Indy Eleven after a successful start to the 2015/16 Red Stripe Premier League season with Montego Bay United, most of which was spent under the direction of Hankinson. The 25-year-old Williams bagged a league-best 14 goals and added three assists across his 16 appearances while helping Montego Bay United to first place in Jamaica’s top division.
“Dino Williams is a promising player that is coming off the best form of his career while playing for Coach Hankinson,” Indy Eleven General Manager Peter Wilt said. “We had Dino in as a trialist in 2014 and he showed promise before sustaining an injury. I'm pleased we're able to bring him back this year.”
Williams went the full 90 minutes in his three appearances in the group stage of the 2015/16 ScotiaBank CONCACAF Champions League last fall, scoring twice in the home leg against D.C. United in November to help Montego Bay to a 3-3 draw against the Major League Soccer side. He would also help MBU to the 2013/14 Red Stripe Premier League crown and a runner-up finish in the 2014/15 campaign. Outside of a loan spell with the USL’s Charleston Battery in 2012, Williams has spent the entirety of his pro career in Jamaica, starting in 2009 with four years with Village United before joining Montego Bay United in 2013.
