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Pedro Lopes (soccer)

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American soccer player and coach
Pedro Lopes
Personal information
Place of birth United States
Position(s) Defender / Midfielder
College career
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1990–1994 Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1996–1997 North Jersey Imperials
Managerial career
1995 Rutgers Scarlet Knights (assistant)
1996 Centenary Cyclones (assistant)
1997–2002 Rutgers Scarlet Knights (assistant)
2003–2010 NJIT Highlanders
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pedro Lopes is a retired American soccer player who coached the NJIT Highlanders men's soccer team. He played professionally in the USISL.

Player

Lopes was raised in Newark, New Jersey and graduated from Saint Benedict's Preparatory School where he was a 1989 NSCAA High School All American soccer player. He then attended Rutgers University, playing on the men's soccer team from 1990 to 1994, starting all 86 games during his collegiate career. In 1990, Rutgers finished runner-up to the UCLA Bruins in the NCAA Men's Division I Soccer Championship. He was a 1993 First Team and 1994 Second Team All American. He was the 1994 Atlantic 10 Player of the Year. In 2004, Rutgers inducted Lopes into the school's Athletic Hall of Fame.

In 1996 and 1997, Lopes played professionally with the North Jersey Imperials of the USISL.

Coach

Lopes began coaching as a volunteer assistant at Rutgers in 1995. In August 1996, he became an assistant with the Centenary College men's team before returning to the Scarlet Knights as a full-time assistant coach. In 1996, Lopes joined the Jersey Knights Soccer Club, becoming the club's Director of Coaching in 2000. In 2003, the New Jersey Institute of Technology hired Lopes as head coach of the men's soccer team.

References

  1. 1989 High School All Americans
  2. "1993 All Americans". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  3. "1994 All Americans". Archived from the original on 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  4. "Atlantic 10 Soccer Records". Archived from the original on 2011-02-13. Retrieved 2010-12-18.
  5. "Jersey Knights: Staff". Archived from the original on 2011-01-10. Retrieved 2010-12-18.

External links

Atlantic 10 Conference Men's Soccer Player of the Year
Player of the Year (1987–1999)
Offensive Player of the Year (2000–)
Defensive Player of the Year (2000–)
Midfielder of the Year (2007–)
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