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Fernando Clavijo
Personal information
Full name	Fernando Clavijo
Date of birth	January 23, 1956 (age 51)
Place of birth	Maldonado, Uruguay
Height	5 ft 10 in (1.78 m)
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1979-1981 1981-1983 1983-1984 1984-1988 1988-1989 1989-1992	Atenas New York Apollo/United New York Arrows San Jose Earthquakes San Diego Sockers Los Angeles Lazers St. Louis Storm	066 0(5) 065 (11) 040 0(1) 187 (49) 046 (10) 136 (51)
National team2
1990-1994	United States	61 (0)
Teams managed
1991 1994-1997 1998 1998 1998 2000-2002 2003-2005 2005-	St. Louis Storm Seattle SeaDogs Florida Thundercats Nigerian national team (assistant) MLS Project 40 (assistant) U.S. Futsal Team MetroStars (assistant) New England Revolution Haiti national team Colorado Rapids
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 31 May 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 22 June 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Fernando Clavijo (born January 23, 1956 in Maldonado, Uruguay) is a former American soccer defender and currently the head coach of the Colorado Rapids of Major League Soccer. He is a member of the National Soccer Hall of Fame.

Clavijo began his professional playing career at the age of 16 with Uruguayan club Atenas De San Carlos. In 1979, Clavijo and his wife moved to the United States in order for him to play for the New York Apollo of the American Soccer League (ASL). The Apollo changed its name to the New York United between the 1979 and 1980 season. Clavijo then spent two seasons with the United. In 1983, he moved to the San Jose Earthquakes of the North American Soccer League (NASL). In 1984, he was an NASL All Star with the Earthquakes.

Clavijo began his indoor soccer career, which rapidly eclipsed his outdoor career, in 1981 with the New York Arrows of Major Indoor Soccer League. In 1984, he moved to the San Diego Sockers.

Clavijo's coaching career began in 1991 with the St. Louis Storm where he was player-coach. In 1994, he became the head coach of the Seattle Seadogs of the Continental Indoor Soccer League (CISL). In 1997, he was the CISL Coach of the Year. He then moved to the Florida Thundercats of the National Professional Soccer League. He then assisted ex-US coach Bora Milutinovic with the Nigerian national team at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. He followed Bora to Major League Soccer as well, assisting him with the MetroStars in 1999, the worst season for any team in league history. He left the club after the year, assuming head coaching duties with the New England Revolution, but was fired midway through the 2002 season after not much success.

In 1998, he also served as the head coach of the U.S. Futsal Team. In 1992, he had earned 8 caps, scoring two goals, for the U.S. Futasl Team.^[1]

On October 16, 2003, Clavijo became the head coach of the Haitian national team. He led them through World Cup Qualifying, resigning his position after Haiti lost to Jamaica.^[2] On December 22, 2004, the Colorado Rapids hired Clavijo as the team's head coach.

Clavijo was inducted into the U.S. National Soccer Hall of Fame in 2005.

Year	Team	GP	G	A	PTS	PIM
1981/82	New York	22	2	2	4	8
1982/83	New York	43	9	11	20	12
1984/85	San Diego	39	5	4	9	6
1985/86	San Diego	47	17	9	26	13
1986/87	San Diego	50	16	12	28	12
1987/88	San Diego	51	11	16	27	27
1988/89	Los Angeles	46	10	17	29	29
1989/90	St. Louis	52	17	18	35	10
1990/91	St. Louis	47	15	23	38	18
1991/92	St. Louis	37	9	19	28	4
TOTAL	MISL	434	111	131	242	139

Year	Team	GP	G	A	PTS
1983	Golden Bay	21	0	1	1
1984	Golden Bay	19	1	1	3
TOTAL	NASL	40	1	2	4

	United States squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup
1 Meola | 2 Lapper | 3 Burns | 4 Kooiman | 5 Dooley | 6 Harkes | 7 Perez | 8 Stewart | 9 Ramos | 10 Wegerle | 11 Wynalda | 12 Sommer | 13 Jones | 14 Klopas | 15 Moore | 16 Sorber | 17 Balboa | 18 Friedel | 19 Reyna | 20 Caligiuri | 21 Clavijo | 22 Lalas | Coach: Milutinović

Colorado Rapids - Current Squad
1 Coundoul | 2 Harvey | 3 Vanney | 4 Gargan | 5 Beckerman | 6 Prideaux | 7 Kirovski | 8 McDonald | 10 Gomez | 11 Cooke | 12 Petke | 13 Keel | 14 Cummings | 15 Peterson | 16 Wingert | 18 Ihemelu | 19 Brown | 20 Hernández | 21 Colaluca | 22 LaBrocca | 23 Clark | 24 Coundoul | 25 Mastroeni | 27 Kimura | 28 DiRaimondo | 30 Hughes | 31 Thornton | 33 Wasson | — Cancela | Coach: Clavijo