Hugo Pérez (soccer)
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hugo Ernesto Pérez Granados | ||
| Date of birth | November 8, 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Morazán Department, El Salvador | ||
| Height | 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1982 | Los Angeles Aztecs | 0 | (0) |
| 1982–1983 | Tampa Bay Rowdies | 20 | (0) |
| 1983–1984 | San Diego Sockers (NASL) | 29 | (7) |
| 1984–1990 | San Diego Sockers (MISL) | 125 | (107) |
| 1986, 1989 | Los Angeles Heat | ||
| 1990 | Red Star Paris | ||
| 1990–1991 | Örgryte IS | 2 | (0) |
| 1992 | Al-Ittihad | ||
| 1994 | Los Angeles Salsa | ||
| 1994–1996 | FAS | ||
| National team | |||
| 1984–1994 | United States | 73 | (13) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2002–200? | University of San Francisco (assistant) | ||
| 2007 | California Victory (assistant) | ||
| 2012–2013 | United States U-14 | ||
| 2012–2014 | United States U-15 | ||
| 2015 | El Salvador (assistant) | ||
| 2016 | El Salvador (assistant) | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Hugo Ernesto Pérez Granados (born November 8, 1963) is a former soccer midfielder who played for the United States national team and several club teams.
During his fourteen-year career, he played professionally in the United States, France, Sweden, Saudi Arabia and his native El Salvador. Although born in El Salvador, he gained his U.S. citizenship as a youth and earned 73 caps, scoring sixteen goals, with the U.S. national team between 1984 and 1994. He was a member of the U.S. team at both the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1994 FIFA World Cup. He was the 1991 U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year and was inducted into the National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2008.
Pérez, born in El Salvador, where both his grandfather and father both played professionally for C.D. FAS, the club with which Pérez would finish his career. He migrated with his family to the United States when he was 11 and gained his U.S. citizenship in the mid-1980s. He chose to forego college.
In 1982 he signed with the Los Angeles Aztecs of the NASL. Pérez also spent time with the Tampa Bay Rowdies before ending up with the San Diego Sockers. In 1988, he was the championship MVP when the Sockers won the MISL championship. That summer he joined Ajax during the team's pre-season. Ajax manager Johan Cruyff expressed an interest in signing him, but the Sockers refused to release Pérez. In 1989, he played for the Los Angeles Heat of the Western Soccer Alliance.
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