Mark Village

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Mark Village
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Village warming up with FC Cincinnati in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth (1991-11-25) November 25, 1991 (age 32)
Place of birth Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Abbotsford Mariners
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2011–2014 UFV Cascades 46 (0)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012 Fraser Valley Mariners 15 (0)
2015–2017 Whitecaps FC 2 1 (0)
2018 FC Cincinnati 0 (0)
2019 Pacific FC 16 (0)
2020–2022 Pacific FC 0 (0)
Total32(0)
Managerial career
2020–2022 Pacific FC (goalkeepers)
2023– Vancouver FC (goalkeepers)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 4, 2022

Mark Village (born November 25, 1991) is a Canadian soccer coach and former player who currently serves as the goalkeepers coach for Vancouver FC in the Canadian Premier League.

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Early life

Village played youth soccer with the Abbotsford Mariners. [1] He began playing goalkeeper at age 10. [2]

University career

In 2009, he began attending the University of the Fraser Valley, where he played for the men's soccer team in 2011. [3] [4] In his first season in 2011, Village started seven matches and recorded one shutout on September 9 against Trinity Western. [3] In 2012, he was named to the 2012 Canada West All-Star team. [5] In 2012, he was named UFV MVP and helped them win a bronze medal in 2013. [6] He holds several of UFV's Canada West-era goalkeeping records, including most wins (16), shutouts (11), minutes played (4,194), games played (46) and save percentage (.726). [4]

Club career

In 2012, he played with the Fraser Valley Mariners in the Premier Development League. [7] That season, he started 15 games and led the league in saves with 103, and recorded a season high 11 saves in the final match of the season against the Vancouver Whitecaps FC U23. [8]

In March 2015, after first going on trial, [9] he signed a professional contract with USL club Whitecaps FC 2. [10] [11] In March 2017, he extended his contract with the club. [8] [12] Village made his professional debut for Whitecaps 2 on October 7, 2017, against the Real Monarchs, during which he made a 5th minute diving save to deny a goal attempt by Daniel Haber, [13] which was later selected as the USL Fans' Choice Save of the Month for October 2017. [14]

In November 2017, Village moved to fellow USL club FC Cincinnati for the 2018 season. [15] [16]

In January 2019, Village joined Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League. [17] [18] [19] He played in Pacific's first ever game on April 28, 2019 and kept a clean sheet in a 1–0 victory over HFX Wanderers FC, the first clean sheet in league history. [20] On November 4, 2019 the club announced it would not be offering Village a contract for the following season. [21] After becoming the club's goalkeeping coach in 2020, he occasionally served as the team's backup goalkeeper in emergency situations from 2020 to 2022. [22]

Coaching career

On February 28, 2020, Village announced his retirement from professional soccer, and that he would be remaining with Pacific as the club's goalkeeper coach under new manager Pa-Modou Kah. [23] [24] [25] With Pacific, he won the 2021 CPL Championship. [26] He departed the club after the 2022 season. [27]

In December 2022, it was announced that he would join Vancouver FC, as their goalkeepers coach for the 2023 season. [28]

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References

  1. ↑ Dailey, Christopher (October 2, 2019). "Interview #21- Mark Village". The Sports Court Blog.
  2. ↑ Dheensaw, Cleve (September 10, 2019). "Goalkeeper Mark Village key to Pacific FC's late push". Times Colonist .
  3. 1 2 "Mark Village Whitecaps profile". Vancouver Whitecaps FC .
  4. 1 2 Kinvig, Dan (April 23, 2019). "Alumni Spotlight: Village primed for Canadian Premier League launch". UFV Cascades .
  5. ↑ Russell, Anne (November 2, 2012). "Cascade soccer's Mark Village named to the 2012 Canada West All-Star team". UFV Today.
  6. ↑ Broadbent, Vanessa (April 1, 2015). "UFV Cascades' Mark Village signs with Whitecaps FC2". The Cascade .
  7. ↑ "Mariners set sail on new PDL soccer season". Abbotsford News . May 22, 2012.
  8. 1 2 "Whitecaps FC 2 re-sign goalkeeper Mark Village to USL roster". Vancouver Whitecaps FC . March 17, 2017. Archived from the original on March 18, 2017.
  9. ↑ "'Keep the dream going': Mark Village intent on making most of opportunity with Pacific FC". Canadian Premier League . January 23, 2019.
  10. ↑ "WFC2 Add Two Local Players and Spanish International". Our Sports Central. March 25, 2015.
  11. ↑ "UFV goalkeeper going pro with the Whitecaps". Abbotsford News . March 26, 2015.
  12. ↑ "WFC2 Re-Signs Goalkeeper Village". USL Championship . March 17, 2017.
  13. ↑ "Vote For Village For USL Save Of The Year". FC Cincinnati . November 30, 2017.
  14. ↑ "Village Nabs Fans' Choice Save of the Month". United Soccer League . October 23, 2017.
  15. ↑ Kimura, Fumi (November 21, 2017). "FCC Adds Seymore, Village, Cicerone". FC Cincinnati.
  16. ↑ Hatch, Charlie (November 21, 2017). "FC Cincinnati signs four, including a goalkeeper and two former Alan Koch players". The Cincinnati Enquirer .
  17. ↑ "Pacific Football Club Adds Goalkeeper Village, Midfielder Verhoeven to Growing Roster". Pacific FC . January 21, 2019. Archived from the original on January 21, 2019.
  18. ↑ "Pacific FC add Verhoeven and Village, continue streak of B.C. signings". Canadian Premier League . January 21, 2019.
  19. ↑ "Academy graduate Noah Verhoeven and goalkeeper Mark Village join Pacific FC". Vancouver Whitecaps FC . January 21, 2019.
  20. ↑ Dheensaw, Cleve (April 28, 2019). "Pacific FC rides purple wave to first-ever victory". Times Colonist .
  21. ↑ "Pacific FC Announce First Roster Moves". Pacific FC. November 4, 2019. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019.
  22. ↑ Longo, Jack (March 10, 2022). "2022 Coaching Staff – Mark Village and Armando Sá". Pacific FC .
  23. ↑ "Pacific FC's Mark Village retires; named goalkeeper coach". Canadian Premier League . February 28, 2020. Archived from the original on February 29, 2020.
  24. ↑ Jacques, John (February 29, 2020). "Pacific FC Adds Mark Village As Goalkeeper Coach". Northern Tribune.
  25. ↑ Bauman, Martin (April 2, 2020). "Pacific FC's Mark Village finds new lease on life as team's goalkeeping coach". Canadian Premier League .
  26. ↑ Longo, Jack (November 22, 2022). "Thank You, Mark Village!". Pacific FC .
  27. ↑ Jacques, John (November 22, 2022). "Pacific Announces Mark Village Exit". Northern Tribune.
  28. ↑ "Niall Thompson, Mark Village join Vancouver FC coaching staff". Canadian Premier League . December 16, 2022.
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