Coaching Staff scored the decisive penalty kick in the shootout during the 1990 NCAA Jorge Salcedo Championship game to give UCLA Head Coach its second national title. In 1993 as a senior, he earned NSCAA fi rst-team 8th Year All-America honors. He prepped at UCLA '02 Cerritos HS, where he earned two Parade All-America honors. Salcedo played for fi ve years in Major League Soccer (MLS). I n h i s fi rst season in the league, he was a starter for the Los Angeles Galaxy and helped take his team to the MLS Championship game. He also played for Chicago, where he served as team co-captain, Columbus and Tampa Bay before re- Former UCLA All-American Jorge Salcedo enters his eighth season as head coach turning to the Galaxy in 1999. Prior for the Bruins, becoming the second-longest tenured men's soccer head coach in to his MLS career, he played with the UCLA's NCAA history. LA Salsa in the APSL and then for F.C. A product of UCLA's strong soccer tradition, Salcedo has maintained the Bruins' Morelia of the Mexican First Division. standard for success, winning four Pac-10 titles and guiding his teams to NCAA Salcedo was also a member of the U.S. To u rnament appearances each year. He signed the No. 1 recruiting classes in the National Team program, earning three nation in 2010, 2006 and 2004, and those players produced results, advancing all the caps with the full national team and way to the NCAA Championship game in the 2006 season and to the quarterfi nals captaining the U-17 team at the 1989 in 2009 and 2010. World Youth Championships and the Over the last three seasons, Salcedo's teams have earned two Pac-10 titles and lost U-20 team at the 1990 CONCACAF just four conference games. The 2010 Bruins won 16 games, the most during Salcedo's To u rnament. tenure, and advanced to the NCAA quarterfi nals for the second consecutive year. In Salcedo has had extensive ties to 2009, Salcedo's Bruins won their second-straight Pac-10 Championship, and placed the Bruin program for many years. two players on the All-America team. Additionally, a school record-tying fi v e players He graduated from UCLA with a were selected in the MLS SuperDraft at the conclusion of the season. In 2008, Salcedo Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and was part of three of the Bruins’ four NCAA guided UCLA to the Pac-10 Championship and was named the Pac-10 Coach of the Championship teams. He was a ball boy for UCLA during its fi rst championship year Year for the second time in his tenure. in 1985, scored the game-winning penalty kick in the 1990 Championship game and Salcedo's 2007 team extended UCLA's post-season appearance streak to 25 consecutive was an assistant coach for the 2002 squad. In addition, his father Hugo was a UCLA years, advancing to the NCAA second round. The Bruins, who fi nished with a 9-9-3 assistant coach from 1978-79 and a member of the 1972 U.S. Olympic team and will record, scored in the classroom, with 24 of 30 team members making the Director's be serving as the FIFA Chairman of the 2014 World Cup. His brother Eddie was a Honor Roll during the school year. UCLA letterwinner in 1995. The 2006 Bruins faced an uphill battle with injuries to several starters throughout Salcedo and his wife Rebecca have been married for seven years, and they have three the season, but they fought through the adversity and ended a successful post-season children, Matteo (5), Malea (3) and Marco (1). run in the title game with a fi nal season record of 14-6-4. In 2005, Salcedo's Bruins recorded a 12-5-3 record and ranked amongst the best in the nation in team defense, allowing just 14 goals and posting a team goals against Coach Salcedo's Year-By-Year Record (2004-10) average of 0.67. T h e Bruins also captured the Pac-10 title for the fourth year in a row Overall Pac-10 Pac-10 NCAA and earned a No. 5 seeding in the NCAA To u rnament. Year Record Record Finish Finish During his fi rst season, Salcedo earned Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year honors after 2004 14-4-2 (.750) 6-2-0 (.750) 1st T- 9 th leading UCLA to its third-straight conference title. His Bruins ended the regular sea- 2005 12-5-3 (.675) 7-1-2 (.800) 1st T- 1 7th son ranked No. 3 by Soccer America and advanced to the third round of the NCAA 2006 14-6-4 (.667) 4-3-3 (.550) 4th 2nd To u rnament, where they fi nished the year with a 14-4-2 record. 2007 9-9-3 (.500) 4-4-2 (.500) T-2nd T-17th Salcedo was UCLA's assistant coach 2008 10-5-6 (.619) 7-1-2 (.800) 1st T- 3 3rd from 2001-03 and helped lead the Bru- 2009 12-4-4 (.700) 5-1-4 (.700) 1st T- 5 th ins to the 2002 NCAA Championship 2010 16-5-1 (.727) 8-2-0 (.800) 2nd T- 5 th and to two Pac-10 team championships. Overall To t als: 87-38-23 (.666) In 2002, h e s e rved as acting head coach Pac-10 Totals: 41-14-13 (.699) in a crucial road victory at Stanford in November that helped the Bruins Career Highlights capture their fi rst-ever Pac-10 title. He As a Coach also served as acting head coach in the spring of 2002 in the coaching transi- • Asst. coach of UCLA's 2002 NCAA Championship team and head coach of tion between Todd Saldaña and To m UCLA's 2006 NCAA fi nalist squad Fitzgerald and had served in a similar • Has coached UCLA to six Pac-10 Titles as an assistant coach or head coach capacity after Fitzgerald announced (2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2009) his resignation. • 2008 Pac-10 Coach of the Year, 2004 Pac-10 Co-Coach of the Year Salcedo, who is a scout for the U.S. • Signed the No. 1 recruiting classes in the nation in 2010, 2006 and 2004 National Team, was the head coach of As a Player the 2002 U-16 SoCal ODP State team and was also the assistant coach of the • As a freshman, scored the deciding penalty kick in the 1990 NCAA Champion- U-17 team in 2001. ship game to give UCLA its second national title The Cerritos, Calif. native had an illus- • 1993 fi rst-team NSCAA All-American trious career at UCLA from 1990-93. • Five-year Major League Soccer veteran Salcedo was a four-year starter, playing • U.S. National Te a m member 74 games and tallying six goals and seven • Played in the Mexican First Division with F.C. Morelia assists for 19 points. A s a freshman, he 1985 • 1990 • 1997 • 2002 NCAA Champions 3 Coaching Staff Eddie Kenny Patrick Soto Arena Seymour Assistant Coach Assistant Coach Volunteer Asst./ 6th Year 4th Year Goalkeeper Coach Cal State Fullerton Univ. of Virginia 3rd Year '95 Chico State '00 Former Cal State Fullerton All-American Eddie Soto Kenny Arena, a former Major League Soccer player and Patrick Seymour joined UCLA in 2009 as the team's begins his sixth season as UCLA assistant coach and University of Virginia standout, is in his fourth season as goalkeeper coach. During his two years on staff, t h e Bruins his 11th season overall as an NCAA Division I coach. a Bruin assistant coach. During his fi rst three seasons at have advanced to the NCAA Quarterfi nals both seasons. In his fi rst season at UCLA, he helped guide the Bruins UCLA, he helped lead the Bruins to two Pac-10 titles Seymour coached Brian Perk to an All-American season to the NCAA College Cup fi nals, and in the last three and two NCAA quarterfi nal appearances. Arena was an in 2009, and Brian Rowe earned All-Pac-10 honors and seasons, the Bruins have won the Pac-10 title twice and assistant coach at George Mason in 2007 and a volunteer was voted UCLA's Te a m MVP in 2010. advanced to the NCAA quarterfi nals twice. coach for the University of Virginia in 2006. As the head goalkeeper coach for the Cal-South ODP In addition to coaching at UCLA, Soto is the head coach As head coach of the U16 LA Galaxy Academy Te a m, program and member of the goalkeeping staff for the of the U.S. Beach Soccer National Te a m and a member Arena led his squad to the 2010-11 USSDA National Region IV ODP program, Seymour has worked with of the coaching staff for the U16 and U18 LA Galaxy and SoCal Division championships, as well as the 2011 many of the top goalkeepers in the West. Over 10 years, Academy teams. Soto helped coach the Galaxy U-17s U-17 MLS Generation adidas Cup. Those three champi- he has trained and helped develop over a dozen youth to the Generation adidas Cup championship. onships were the fi rst national and regional team members and won three Soto was the assistant coach for the men's team at Cal in club history. One national titles with his teams.