Michael Enfield (born July 19, 1983, in

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) is an American

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player currently playing for SP Barcelona in La Gran Liga de Oxnard. He is a member of the

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Career

College and amateur

Enfield attended Ventura High School, and played

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at the

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for four seasons, from 2001 to 2004. He appeared in seventy-eight games for the Bruins, scoring thirty-nine goals and assisting on fifteen. During his college years he also played for

Orange County Blue Star Orange County Blue Star was an amateur American soccer team based in Irvine, California. Founded in 1997, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Southwest Division of th ...

in the

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Professional

Enfield was drafted in the second round, fifteenth overall, by

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in the

2005 MLS SuperDraft The 2005 MLS SuperDraft, held in Baltimore, Maryland, on January 14, 2005, was the sixth incarnation of the annual MLS SuperDraft. Expansion club Real Salt Lake had the first pick as the result of a coin toss (fellow newcomers C.D. Chivas USA g ...

, and played in eleven games for the team, scoring one goal, before being waived at the end of the season. Enfield trialled with

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n side

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, throughout the second half of March 2007, and played two forty-five-minute halves in trial games, scoring against the Wollongong Wolves in a 3–2 victory, and then having a hand in all three goals as Sydney beat the

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3–0. On April 7, 2007, Enfield signed a two-year contract with the former

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champions. He made his debut for the club on September 9, 2007, against

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, coming on as a second-half substitute and becoming the first

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ish player in A-League history. In late September, he suffered a serious injury to his left knee during training which ended his season. Enfield underwent knee reconstruction surgery to repair tearing to both the anterior cruciate and

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s, and was expected to return to training at Sydney in mid-2008. However, Enfield suffered another major setback when an

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test showed he still had cartilage damage. Enfield missed the start of Sydney's 2008–2009 season and, due to his extensive injury issues, he was released at the end of the season. Enfield returned to his native California in 2010 and subsequently signed to play with

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in the

. Recently, Enfield has been playing with the amateur side SP Barcelona in the USASA-affiliated La Gran Liga de Oxnard based in

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Personal life

While living in

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and not playing due to injury, Enfield carried out a great deal of community work on behalf of

. Enfield currently is the Assistant coach to the Men's Soccer team at Santa Monica College. Enfield is the grandson of actors Craig Reynolds (born Harold Hugh Enfield) and

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Honors

On June 26, 2011, he was inducted into the

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Los Angeles Galaxy

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MLS Cup (1):

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Enfield, Michael 1983 births Living people Sportspeople from Ventura, California Soccer players from Ventura County, California Jewish American soccer players American expatriate men's soccer players Expatriate men's soccer players in Australia A-League Men players Sydney FC players LA Galaxy players Major League Soccer players Orange County Blue Star players Ventura County Fusion players UCLA Bruins men's soccer players USL League Two players LA Galaxy draft picks United States men's youth international soccer players Maccabiah Games silver medalists for the United States Men's association football midfielders American men's soccer players All-American college men's soccer players American beach soccer players Maccabiah Games medalists in football 21st-century American Jews Ventura High School alumni Jews from California