Orlando Perez

Orlando Perez

Personal information
Full name	Orlando Perez
Date of birth	July 12, 1977 (1977-07-12) (age 34)
Place of birth	Pomona, CA, United States
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	defender
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1999	Orange County Zodiac
2000-2002	MetroStars	41	(0)
2002	D.C. United	8	(0)
2002-2004	Chicago Fire	49	(2)
2005-2007	Chivas USA	65	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 April 2009. † Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 June 2006

Orlando Perez (born July 12, 1977 in Pomona, California) is an American soccer defender, who is currently without a club, having been waived by Chivas USA of Major League Soccer.

Perez never played college soccer, but he was drafted twice in MLS, both times by coach Octavio Zambrano. The first came in the first round of the 1999 MLS Supplemental Draft, when Zambrano was with the Los Angeles Galaxy. Perez failed to make the team and played with A-League's Orange County Zodiac. With Zambrano moving to the MetroStars in 2000, he plucked Perez again, this time in the fourth round of the 2000 MLS SuperDraft.

Perez would spend the next two and a half seasons with the Metros, a part-time player his first, a starter at left back his second. Zambrano dealt him midway through the third, to D.C. United with Petter Villegas for Mark Lisi and Craig Ziadie. Perez then became only one of two players in MLS history (Winston Griffiths is the other) to play for three teams in one season as DC traded him the Chicago Fire for a draft pick after only eight games.^[1] Perez was in-and-out of the Fire lineup since. He scored two goals in six years in MLS. Perez was taken by Chivas in the 2004 MLS Expansion Draft. He was waived at the end of the 2007 season.

See also

	Puerto Rico portal
	Biography portal

• List of famous Puerto Ricans

References

1. ^ McDill, Kent (2002-07-31). "Perez confident Fire can win it all". Daily Herald. http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-89978793.html. 

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Name	Perez, Orlando
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Date of birth	1977-07-12
Place of birth	Pomona, CA, United States
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