Chris Armas
Chris Armas ( born August 27, 1972 in Brentwood, New York ) is a former American professional soccer player with Puerto Rican roots.
Today he is a physical education teacher at St. Anthony's High School in South Huntington, New York.
Club career
College
Armas attended from 1990 to 1993, the Adelphi University in Garden City, New York, where he was able to achieve 17 goals in the Adelphi Panthers in four seasons. In his last year, the so-called senior year, he was honored with the appointment in the national team NCAA Division I First Team All-American.
Professional
After graduating, he played from 1994 to 1995 for the Long Iceland Roughriders in the USISL. In 1995, he was able to win with the team in this league the championship. Armas played for the Rough Riders with the later MLS players Tony Meola, Giovanni Savarese and Jim Rooney together.
1996 Armas was selected before the first Major League Soccer season Los Angeles Galaxy in the MLS Supplemental Draft. In the first two years, he played a significant role in the midfield of Californians.
1998 brought the Chicago Fire SC, who stood just in front of the denial of their first MLS season, Armas to Illinois. Again, he was among the top performers of the team and managed with Selbiger winning the MLS Cup in 1998. Between 1998 and 2001, was appointed four times in the MLS Best XI team. A majority of the 2002 season, he had to sit out due to a torn ACL. After a very good season in 2003 was awarded the MLS Comeback Player of the Year award and was readmitted to the MLS Best XI. In 2000 he has also been named U.S. Soccer Athlete of the Year.
On April 19, he announced that the Major League Soccer 2007 will be his last season. After 12 years of active service in the MLS he took on 13 November 2007 its official farewell.
Internationally
Although Armas has already played five times for the national team of Puerto Rico, but he was there never used in official matches. So he could play under permit of FIFA from 1998 for the national football team of the United States.
For the World Cup 1998, he was not nominated to the national team due to his late entry. At the next World Cup in 2002, he also could not participate due to injury. In the 2006 World Cup in Germany he lived though as a substitute on call, but was not appointed to the final squad.
Private
Armas is married and has two sons with his wife Justine. After a year as an assistant coach at Chicago Fire he is today sports teacher at his old high school, St. Anthony's High School.
- National football team (United States)
- Americans
- Born in 1972
- Man