Former U.S. Youth International and 21-Year-Old Florida Native Departs Monday to Face Curaçao & Jamaica in CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers
HERRIMAN, Utah (Friday, August 29, 2025) – Real Salt Lake announced today that 21-year-old centerback and former United States Youth International Kobi Henry has been selected by Trinidad & Tobago head coach Dwight Yorke to represent his parents’ homeland for upcoming CONCACAF World Cup Qualifiers against Curaçao and Jamaica next week.
Real Salt Lake (9-14-4, 31 points, 10th West / 20th Shield) will host a “mini-preseason” the next few weeks, with four of its next five matches to be played at home beginning with a Sporting Kansas City visit to America First Field in Sandy on Sat., Sept. 13. This weekend’s originally scheduled road trip to Seattle has been moved to Sat., Oct. 11, due to the Sounders’ advancement in Leagues Cup.
Henry – on loan to Utah’s Major League Soccer Club from French side Reims for the 2025 season – started earlier this year at centerback in both of RSL’s Champions Cup matches against Herediano, playing the full 90 in each. Henry has appeared in three MLS contests this season off the bench, last seeing the field for RSL on March 22 against Dallas. After missing most of April and May due to a hamstring injury, Henry has stabilized both his own season and that of Real Monarchs in MLS NEXT Pro with a recent run of 11 games for Head Coach Mark Lowry’s team. When he played for RSL in February against Herediano, Henry made his first domestic appearance for a U.S. club since his then-USL-record transfer from Orange County to Reims three summers ago.
Henry, born in Lakeland, Fla., to Trinidadian parents, signed his first professional contract at age 16, with Orange County SC in June, 2020, following youth stints with both the Orlando City and Inter Miami youth academies. Since 2020, Henry has made seven appearances with various United States Youth National Teams at the U17, U19 and U20 levels.
The 6-foot-2 centerback had made 27 appearances in recent seasons for either Reims B or on loan with Villefranche, prior to his Janyary arrival in Utah to kick off preseason with Head Coach Pablo Mastroeni’s team.
