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Dan Birkey
Daniel Birkey (born December 10, 1957, in Columbia, South Carolina) is an American soccer coach, and played collegiately and professionally. He is the head men's soccer coach at Concordia University, Portland. Upon Concordia's shift to NCAA DII in 2014, he was the 9th winningest men's soccer coach in NAIA history.〔http://www.naia.org/fls/27900/1NAIA/SportsInfo/wincoach/MSOC_WinningestCoaches.pdf?SPSID=646079&SPID=100398&DB_LANG=C&DB_OEM_ID=27900〕 ==Biography and Playing Career== Birkey spent much of his youth in northern California, and moved to Sumner, Washington, during high school. He was a state championship basketball player there and multi-sport athlete, but discovered and fell in love with soccer in 1974 when saw an acquaintance juggling a soccer ball with his feet. He played club and high school soccer in Tacoma under German coach Yontz Miller. Birkey traveled through Central America in 1976 playing soccer and learning the game. Birkey was later recruited to Warner Pacific College playing under Ethiopian coach Abraham Demissie and Dr. Brian W. Bergemann. While captaining the WPC team, Birkey set several school goal and assist records and was sixth in the nation in collegiate scoring and was named to several conference and region all star teams. In his senior year alone Birkey tallied 18 goals and 9 assists. Birkey later was a top goal scorer and All-Star player for the Horse Brass Soccer Club where he played under British manager Clive Charles in the Oregon First Division. In 1979, Birkey graduated as a West Coast All-Star and left for South America the following summer. While there, he taught physical education and coached soccer at Christiansen Academy in Rubio, Venezuela, and played as a striker for Zulia FC then moving to the prestigious Deportivo Táchira soccer club in San Cristobal. As an American international, Birkey became popular on and off the pitch in Venezuela, earning him the nickname "El Torito Blanco" among local soccer fans for his relentless work ethic, tenacious style of play and off-field engagement in common public life. 〔()〕
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