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Brad Agoos
American soccer player
Brad Agoos is an American former soccer player and the current head coach of USL League Two side Black Rock.[2][3]
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 1970 or 1971 (age 52–53)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Dallas, Texas, United States | ||
| Position(s) | Defender, midfielder | ||
| College career | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1989–1992 | Virginia Cavaliers | 88 | |
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993 | FC Homburg | ||
| D.C. United | |||
| 1994 | Carolina Vipers (indoor) | 26 | (19) |
| 1995 | Charlotte Eagles | ||
| 1996 | Charleston Battery | ||
| 1997 | Worcester Wildfire | 23 | (0) |
| 1997 | Puntarenas | ||
| 1997–1998 | Santa Bárbara | ||
| 1999 | Vermont Voltage | ||
| 1999 | Quick Den Haag | ||
| Managerial career | |||
| 1994–1995 | Park Sharon SC | ||
| 1999 | Vermont Voltage (player-coach) | ||
| 2000–2006 | California Golden Bears (assistant) | ||
| 2006–2011 | Seattle Redhawks | ||
| 2013–2015 | Portland Timbers U18 | ||
| Crossfire Premier SC | |||
| Norwich University (assistant) | |||
| 2021– | Black Rock | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
After leaving the University of Virginia, where he had been named ACC Men's Soccer Tournament MVP in 1992, Agoos would embark on a journeyman career which took him to Germany, Costa Rica and the Netherlands.[4]
He joined FC 08 Homburg in 1993, before returning to the United States with Major League Soccer side D.C. United.[5] After playing one season in the Continental Indoor Soccer League with Carolina Vipers in 1994, Agoos played three consecutive seasons in the A-League with Charlotte Eagles, Charleston Battery and Worcester Wildfire.[6]
In 1997, Agoos moved to Costa Rica to join Puntarenas.[5] He also played for Santa Bárbara from 1997 to 1998.[7][8]
He played for Vermont Voltage in 1999, while also serving as a coach, before moving to the Netherlands to sign with third-division side Quick Den Haag.[4]
Agoos started his coaching career at youth club Park Sharon SC in the 1994–95 season. After this, he volunteered at the Charlotte 49ers in 1996, and the San Francisco Dons in 1998.[4]
He took up his first full-time role in 2000, when he became assistant coach of the California Golden Bears at the University of California, Berkeley.[4][9] In 2006, he was appointed head coach at the Seattle Redhawks, where he stayed for six seasons before being fired in 2011, following a bad run of results.[10]
Between 2013 and 2015, he was a youth academy coach at the Portland Timbers. He then coached Crossfire Premier SC before taking up a position as assistant manager of the Norwich University men's soccer team.[9]
Agoos is the brother of former soccer player Jeff Agoos.[11][12]
Club
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Carolina Vipers | 1994 | CISL | 26 | 19 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 26 | 19 | |
| Worcester Wildfire | 1997 | A-League | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | |
| Career total | 49 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 19 | ||
- Notes
- "Brad Agoos". soccerstats.us. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Brad Agoos". statscrew.com. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Cal Assistant Brad Agoos Named Head Coach at Seattle University". calbears.com. May 24, 2006. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Timbers add Brad Agoos to Academy coaching staff". timbers.com. August 22, 2013. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "MLS: Player Combine Biographies (Midfielders)". socceramerica.com. January 30, 1997. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Bastaron los destellos" [The Flashes Weren't Enough]. nacion.com (in Spanish). December 28, 1997. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Mercado de futbol" [Soccer market]. nacion.com (in Spanish). July 16, 1998. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Brad Agoos". norwichathletics.com. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- Boyle, John (January 10, 2012). "Fewing returns as soccer coach at Seattle U." heraldnet.com. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- "Arena signs four recruits for 1989". The Cavalier Daily. April 17, 1989. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
- Gaschk, Matt (March 15, 2009). "The transition to D-I". soundersfc.com. Retrieved November 16, 2021.
