January 23, 2025 – Major League Soccer (MLS)
Real Salt Lake News Release
HERRIMAN, Utah – Real Salt Lake has added 23-year-old Ghanaian striker Forster Ajago to its 2025 roster, after selecting the former Nashville SC forward in Stage One of Major League Soccer’s Re-Entry Draft last month. Ajago is signed through this 2025 MLS season, with Club options for both the 2026 and 2027 MLS campaigns.
Ajago – born August 16, 2001 – has been with RSL during the first 10 days of its Utah-based preseason, and will join RSL permanently for its two California-based preseason training stints – the first of which starts today in Santa Barbara, Calif., prior to the Club’s Feb. 19 CONCACAF Champions Cup Round One first leg tilt in San Jose, Costa Rica against CS Herediano.
“Forster brings size, speed, and an incredible work rate up top,” said RSL Chief Soccer Officer Kurt Schmid, now entering his fifth RSL and 15th MLS campaign. “He will have the opportunity to compete and he could be an excellent fit in our game model. We’ve been following him since his college days, and he’s shown glimpses in Nashville of what he can do at the next level. We look forward to his contributions.”
Ajago (pronounced ah – YAW – go) arrives at Real Salt Lake after scoring two goals in 15 appearances last season for Nashville SC, highlighted by the brace last February in his Nashville debut, a 4-0 win against Moca FC (Dominican Republic) in CONCACAF Champions Cup action. During his only previous professional season in the United States, Ajago also found the back of the net seven times in 12 games with Huntsville City in MLS NEXT Pro action.
Prior to his time with the Nashville SC organization, the native of Navrongo, Ghana, played 58 games for three different colleges in the United States from 2020-23, scoring 28 goals. Recruited during the pandemic by the Univ. of Delaware, where he scored one goal in five games, Ajago transferred to the Univ. of Dayton, scoring 13 goals in 35 games for the Flyers in 2021 and 2022 seasons. Ajago matriculated to Duke University for his senior season, finding the back of the net 14 times in 18 games with the Blue Devlis in 2023, earning Second-Team NCAA All-America honors.
“I’m very happy to make this move, coming here is a beautiful opportunity for me; I’ve had a lot of teammates tell me how great this place is, how great the staff is. My idea is that its Utah, let’s make it home,” said Ajago earlier this week, at the Club’s Media Day gatherings following the first…
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