title: John Dugan (soccer)
text: # John Dugan (soccer)
  
  John Dugan is a retired American soccer player and coach who both played and coached professionally in the USL A-League.
  
  ## Player
  
  Dugan attended Virginia Commonwealth University, playing on the men’s soccer team from 1986 to 1990. In 1992, he joined the Canton Invaders of the National Professional Soccer League. In 1993, he moved to the Richmond Kickers in the USISL. During the 1993–94 USISL indoor season, Dugan scored twenty-four goals in seven games, putting him second on the league’s points chart. In the fall of 1994, Dugan returned to the Canton Invaders for a single season. In 1998, he again played for the Kickers before finishing his playing career with the Raleigh Express in 1999.
  
  ## Coach
  
  In 1999, the Raleigh Capital Express hired Dugan as a player-assistant coach. Midway through the season, he became head coach. In 2001, he move to the Atlanta Silverbacks as head coach. In 2003, he was the General Manager of the Richmond Kickers youth clubs.
  
  