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name: Eric Avila
position: M height: 5-8 weight:150 Birthdate: November 24, 1987 Hometown: San Diego, CA last club: |
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| Regular Season Stats | full bio l year-by-year stats l video highlights |
| year | club | gp | gs | min | g | a | sht | sog | fc | fs | c | ej |
| 2009 | FC Dallas | 18 | 0 | 332 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| Career | 32 | 3 | 840 | 1 | 4 | 9 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 1 | 0 | |
| Most Recent Video Highlights |
| date | clubs | video description |
| 06/20/09 | Crew @ FC Dallas |
 Goal of the Week winner: Avila, FCD
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| 06/20/09 | Crew @ FC Dallas |
Avila scores his first
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Acquired
2008 MLS SuperDraft - second round, 19th overall pick on January 18, 2008 as a Generation adidas player. The pick was acquired from the Colorado Rapids on Jan. 12, 2007, along with the 2007 second round pick used to select Andrew Daniels, in exchange for Greg Vanney.
Professional
2008: Led all Dallas rookies with 14 appearances and two assists…All 14 of his appearances came under head coach Schellas Hyndman…Made his MLS debut on June 26 at Houston, entering as a substitute in the 85th minute to replace Juan Toja…Started his first career MLS game on July 27 vs. the LA Galaxy...Earned his first career assist on Abe Thompson's game-tying header in stoppage time versus Kansas City on July 4…His other assist also led to a game-tying goal, at D.C. United on Sept. 13…Started 10 of 11 Reserve games, notching a goal and two assists…In December, traveled to England with Bruno Guarda, Josh Lambo and Anthony Wallace along with other Generation adidas players for friendlies against the Reserve squads of Chelsea, Reading and Aston Villa.
International
2007: Called in for a U-23 camp in January…made his first U.S. appearance with U-17's at the age of 15 versus England in 2003.2006: Participated in camps with the U.S. U-20 National Team.
2003-2005: Entered the U.S. U-17 Residency Program in Bradenton, FL along with current FCD teammates Dax McCarty and Blake Wagner.
College
2005-2007: Finished his college career with 15 goals and 18 assists in three years at UCSB… Earned All-Big West First Team honors as well in addition to being named to the NSCAA All-Far West Second Team in 2007… was a MAC Hermann Trophy candidate in 2007…scored four goals and tallied a career-high eight assists in 2007…in 2006 he scored a career-high eight goals… scored winning goal in UCSB's first-ever National Championship in 2-1 win over UCLA in Dec. 2006 in NCAA College Cup…earned Big West Conference Freshman of the Year honors in 2005 after leading all newcomers with three goals and five assists.
