Iain Baird (born January 1, 1963) is a Canadian former
soccer defender who earned nine
caps
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with the
Canadian national soccer team between 1984 and 1986.
Baird played for the
Victoria Riptides during the 1985
Western Soccer Alliance
Western Soccer Alliance was a professional soccer league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States and Western Canada. The league began in 1985 as the Western Alliance Challenge Series. In 1986, it became the Western Soccer Alli ...
Challenge Cup. He played for the
Ottawa Pioneers in the Canadian Soccer League in 1987 and again for the renamed
Ottawa Intrepid
Ottawa Intrepid was a professional soccer team based in Ottawa, Ontario that competed in the original Canadian Soccer League. They were founded as the National Capital Pioneers (also spelled National Capitals Pioneers) and played in Aylmer, Que ...
in 1988.
From 1995 to December 2001, Baird was the head coach of the men's soccer team at
Malaspina University College in
Nanaimo. In 1998, he led the team to a second place at the
Canadian Colleges Athletic Association championships. That year the CCAA awarded Coach Baird its Coaching Excellence Award.
Malaspina Mariners Men's Soccer Team wins silver at national final
/ref> During his years as a coach, he also taught physical education and Japanese at John Barsby Secondary School. He teaches physical education and coaches the junior and senior soccer teams at Dover Bay Secondary School in Nanaimo.
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Living people
1971 births
Soccer people from British Columbia
Canada men's international soccer players
Canadian soccer coaches
Canadian Soccer League (1987–1992) players
Canadian soccer players
Association football defenders
Ottawa Intrepid players
Sportspeople from Nanaimo
Canadian people of Scottish descent
Victoria Riptides players
Western Soccer Alliance players
Victoria Vistas players
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