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{{short description|American soccer defender (born 1977)}}
{{BLP sources|date=June 2009}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name= Orlando Perez
| fullname = Orlando Perez
| image =
| birth_date  = {{birth date and age|1977|7|12}}
| birth_place = [[Pomona, California]], United States
| height = {{height|ft=5|in=10}}
| position = [[Defender (association football)|Defender]]
| youthyears1 = 
| youthclubs1 = 
| years1 = 1997–1999 
| clubs1 = [[Orange County Zodiac]]
| caps1 = 49
| goals1 = 1
| years2 = 2000–2002
| clubs2 = [[MetroStars]]
| caps2 = 41
| goals2 = 0
| years3 = 2002 
| clubs3 = [[D.C. United]]
| caps3 = 8
| goals3 = 0 
| years4 = 2002–2004
| clubs4 = [[Chicago Fire FC|Chicago Fire]]
| caps4 = 49
| goals4 = 2
| years5 = 2005–2007
| clubs5 = [[Chivas USA]]
| caps5 = 65  
| goals5 = 1 
| totalcaps  = 212
| totalgoals = 4
}}

'''Orlando Perez''' (born July 12, 1977 in [[Pomona, California|Pomona]], [[California]]) is an American [[Association football|soccer]] [[Defender (association football)|defender]], who played eight seasons in [[Major League Soccer]].

Perez never played [[College soccer in the United States|college soccer]], but he was drafted twice in MLS, both times by coach [[Octavio Zambrano]]. The first came in the first round of the [[1999 MLS Supplemental Draft]], when Zambrano was with the [[Los Angeles Galaxy]]. Perez failed to make the team and played with [[USL First Division|A-League]]'s [[Orange County Zodiac]]. With Zambrano moving to the [[MetroStars]] in 2000, he plucked Perez again, this time in the fourth round of the [[2000 MLS SuperDraft]].

Perez would spend the next two and a half seasons with the Metros, a part-time player his first, a starter at left back his second. Zambrano dealt him midway through the third, to [[D.C. United]] with [[Petter Villegas]] for [[Mark Lisi]] and [[Craig Ziadie]]. Perez then became only one of two players in MLS history ([[Winston Griffiths (soccer)|Winston Griffiths]] is the other) to play for three teams in one season as DC traded him the [[Chicago Fire S.C.|Chicago Fire]] for a draft pick after only eight games.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Daily Herald|author=McDill, Kent|title=Perez confident Fire can win it all|url=https://www.questia.com/read/1G1-89978793|date=2002-07-31}}</ref> Perez was in-and-out of the Fire lineup since. He scored two goals in six years in MLS. Perez was taken by Chivas in the [[2004 MLS Expansion Draft]]. He was waived at the end of the 2007 season.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{MLS player|orlando-perez}}
{{Portal|Puerto Rico|Biography}}

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[[Category:Orange County Blue Star players]]
[[Category:New York Red Bulls players]]
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[[Category:American people of Puerto Rican descent]]
[[Category:Sportspeople of Puerto Rican descent]]
[[Category:Puerto Rican men's footballers]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Pomona, California]]
[[Category:Soccer players from Los Angeles County, California]]
[[Category:Major League Soccer players]]
[[Category:A-League (1995–2004) players]]
[[Category:New York Red Bulls draft picks]]
[[Category:LA Galaxy draft picks]]
[[Category:Men's association football defenders]]

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