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Pedro Lopes (soccer)

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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

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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.[1] 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.[2][3] He was the 1994 Atlantic 10 Player of the Year.[4] 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

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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.[5] In 2003, the New Jersey Institute of Technology hired Lopes as head coach of the men's soccer team.

References

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  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.
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