Kiki Lara

Ricardo "Kiki" Lara (born July 24, 1981 in Las Cruces, New Mexico) is a retired American soccer player who last played for the USL First Division side Portland Timbers and currently works as head coach of the Incarnate Word Cardinals.[1]

Kiki Lara
Personal information
Full name Ricardo Lara
Date of birth (1981-07-24) July 24, 1981
Place of birth Las Cruces, New Mexico, United States
Height 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Incarnate Word Cardinals (Head coach)
Youth career
1997–2000 Bollettieri Soccer Academy
2000–2004 UIW Cardinals
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2006 Minnesota Thunder 38 (1)
2007–2008 Portland Timbers 25 (0)
Teams managed
2009–2014 Dayton Flyers (asst.)
2015–2019 Eastern Illinois Panthers (men)
2016–2017 Eastern Illinois Panthers (women)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Career

Lara played college soccer in San Antonio, Texas at the University of the Incarnate Word. He captained the team from 2001 to 2003 and was also named a Division II All-American in each of those 3 seasons. In 2004, he joined the Minnesota Thunder and played 26 games in his inaugural season.[2] He then played 19 times and scored one goal the following campaign.[3]

Coaching career

He started his coaching career in 1995 as coach of the Las Cruces Strikers,[4] a youth soccer club founded by his sister Linda Lara.[5]

In 2005 while still a player with the Minnesota Thunder, he also worked as an assistant coach of the Washington State University women's soccer program.[6]

On June 8, 2009 he was named as an assistant coach for the Dayton Flyers men's soccer team.[7]

He was named the head coach of the Eastern Illinois Panthers men's soccer team on March 10, 2015.[8] Lara was the Eastern Illinois women's soccer head coach for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.[9]

References
  1. "UIW Athletics welcomes home Kiki Lara as men's soccer head coach" (Press release). Incarnate Word Cardinals/CBS Sports Digital. December 20, 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2019.
  2. "USL First Division 2005 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  3. "USL First Division 2006 Season". a-leaguearchive.tripod.com.
  4. "June 8, 2009 – Dayton Athletics".
  5. Thank You Linda Lara(SFC Founder)
  6. "2011 DAYTON SOCCER CAMPS" (PDF).
  7. "KIKI LARA NAMED DAYTON MEN'S SOCCER ASSISTANT COACH". Archived from the original on 2013-07-04. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
  8. "Men's Soccer introduces new coach". Daily Eastern News. March 10, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2015.
  9. "Eastern Illinois University Panthers". eiupanthers.com.
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