Mark Village (born November 25, 1991) is a Canadian soccer coach and former player who serves as a goalkeeper coach for Pacific FC.
![]() Village warming up with FC Cincinnati in 2018 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | (1991-11-25) November 25, 1991 (age 30) | ||
Place of birth | Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada | ||
Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Pacific FC (goalkeeper coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
2012 | Fraser Valley Mariners | ||
College career | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2015 | UFV Cascades | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2015–2017 | Whitecaps FC 2 | 1 | (0) |
2018 | FC Cincinnati | 0 | (0) |
2019 | Pacific FC | 16 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Pacific FC | 0 | (0) |
Total | 17 | (0) | |
Teams managed | |||
2020– | Pacific FC (goalkeepers) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 4, 2022 |
Mark Village was born on November 25, 1991 in Abbotsford, British Columbia, Canada. He began his soccer career playing for the Abbotsford Mariners in 2012.[1]
Village attended University of the Fraser Valley, where he played goalkeeper for the UFV Cascades. In the 2012–13 season, he was named to the Canada West Second Team All-Star team and also named as MVP for UFV.[2]
On March 25, 2015, Village signed as a free agent with Whitecaps FC 2, a United Soccer League club based in Vancouver. Whitecaps 2 re-signed Village for the 2017 season on March 17, 2017.[3]
Village made his professional debut for Whitecaps 2 on October 7, 2017, when he played the full 90 minutes of an away match against Real Monarchs. In the 5th minute, Village made a diving save to deny a goal attempt by Daniel Haber. This save was later selected as the USL Fans' Choice Save of the Month for October 2017.[4]
On November 21, 2017, Village transferred across the USL by signing with FC Cincinnati.[5] This was Village's second time playing under FC Cincinnati head coach Alan Koch, as Koch had been the head coach of Whitecaps FC 2 from 2015 to 2016.[2]
Village joined Pacific FC of the Canadian Premier League on January 21, 2019.[6] He played in Pacific's first ever game on April 28, 2019 and kept a clean sheet in a 1–0 victory over HFX Wanderers FC, the first clean sheet in league history.[7] On November 4, 2019 the club announced it would not be offering Village a contract for the following season.[8] After becoming the club's goalkeeping coach in 2020, he occasionally served as the team's backup goalkeeper in emergency situations from 2020 to 2022.[9]
On February 28, 2020, Village announced his retirement from professional soccer, and that he would be remaining with Pacific as the club's goalkeeper coach under new manager Pa-Modou Kah.[10][11]
Pacific FC
Pacific FC – current squad | |
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