Personal information | |||
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Full name | Irvin Enrique Herrera Baires | ||
Date of birth | August 30, 1991 | ||
Place of birth | San Julián, Sonsonate, El Salvador | ||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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New York Cosmos (on loan from Saint Louis FC) |
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Youth career | |||
2010 | GWU Runnin' Bulldogs | ||
2011 | Southern Wesleyan Warriors | ||
2012–2013 | NC Wesleyan Battling Bishops | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014–2016 | Santa Tecla | 46 | (24) |
2016– | Saint Louis FC | 25 | (14) |
2017– | → New York Cosmos (loan) | 0 | (0) |
National team‡ | |||
2015– | El Salvador | 13 | (2) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 10, 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:50, 22 January 2017 (UTC) |
Irvin Enrique Herrera Baires (born August 30, 1991 in San Juilan, Sonsonate, El Salvador) is a Salvadoran footballer who plays for New York Cosmos in the North American Soccer League.
Herrera played for Santa Tecla in the Primera División of El Salvador from 2014 to 2016, making 42 appearances and scoring 23 goals during league play. Additionally, Herrera played for the club during the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League, scoring his team's lone goal in a 2-1 defeat to Real Salt Lake of Major League Soccer.
On February 19, 2016, USL club Saint Louis FC announced their signing of Herrera from Santa Tecla. He scored his first goal for the club on May 7 against the Swope Park Rangers. Two weeks later he became the first Saint Louis FC player to register a hat trick, tallying four goals in a match against the Tulsa Roughnecks, and was named the USL's Player of the Week.