Miguel Aguilar (Mexican footballer)

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Miguel Aguilar
Personal information
Date of birth (1993-08-30) 30 August 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
2009–2010 CASA Boca
2011–2014 San Francisco Dons
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2014 Portland Timbers U23s 8 (1)
2015–2016 D.C. United 23 (0)
2015 → Richmond Kickers (loan) 1 (0)
2016 → Richmond Kickers (loan) 14 (1)
2017–2018 LA Galaxy II 30 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 09:38, 16 October 2018 (UTC)

Miguel Aguilar (born 30 August 1993) is a Mexican professional footballer.

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College and amateur soccer

Aguilar graduated from Encina Preparatory High School in 2011. He played college soccer at the University of San Francisco, where he made a total of 73 appearances and tallied 15 goals and 9 assists. While in college, he was a youth coach for USL League Two side San Francisco Glens' academy. [1]

He also spent the 2014 season with Portland Timbers U23s in the Premier Development League. [2]

Professional career

D.C. United

Aguilar was drafted in the first round (17th overall) of the 2015 MLS SuperDraft by D.C. United and signed a professional contract with the club. [3] [4] He made his professional debut on 26 February in a 5–2 defeat to Alajuelense in the first leg of the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal. [5] On 19 August 2015, Aguilar scored his first professional goal against Árabe Unido in the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League group stage.[ citation needed ]

LA Galaxy II

On 12 December 2016, Aguilar was traded by D.C. along with a fourth-round pick in the 2019 MLS SuperDraft to LA Galaxy in exchange for LA's fourth-round pick in the 2018 MLS SuperDraft. [6] On 18 December 2017, Aguilar signed a new contract with the team after being sidelined for the nearly the whole 2017 season, due to an ACL injury. [7] After the 2018 season, Aguilar's contract ran out. [8]

References

  1. ↑ "Telemundo: Miguel Aguilar, former SF Glens trainer and first DACA recipient to play in MLS". youtube.com. YouTube. Retrieved 17 March 2022.
  2. ↑ "2014 Portland Timbers U23s stats". uslpdl.com. USL PDL. Archived from the original on 27 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  3. ↑ "D.C. United makes two selections at 2015 MLS SuperDraft". DCUnited.com. D.C. United. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  4. ↑ "D.C. United signs midfielder Miguel Aguilar". DCUnited.com. D.C. United. 18 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  5. ↑ Mauer, Pablo (26 February 2015). "CONCACAF Champions League Match Recap". MLSsoccer.com. Major League Soccer. Retrieved 27 February 2015.
  6. ↑ "LA Galaxy acquire the rights to midfielder Miguel Aguilar from D.C. United". LAGalaxy.com. LA Galaxy Communications. Retrieved 13 January 2017.
  7. ↑ "LA Galaxy II sign midfielder Miguel Aguilar to new contract". lagalaxy.com. 18 December 2017. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "LA Galaxy II exercise 2019 contract options on five players". lagalaxy.com. 10 January 2020. Retrieved 4 June 2020.
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