Montreal Impact forward Eduardo Sebrango announced his retirement from playing soccer after 12 seasons Monday to become a coach with the North American Soccer League team's youth academy.
In his new position, he will work with Secondary 2 players, serve as a coach to academy forwards, and be the assistant coach of their U-16 boys' team.
Canadian but born in Cuba, Sebrango, who turned 38 last Wednesday, played two stints for the Impact -- 2002 to 2005 in the USL First Division, then 2009 in the last year of USL-1 and 2010 in the one-season USSF Division 2 Pro League -- and is the second all-time leading scorer in American second division soccer with 98 goals and 30 assists for 226 points in 257 career games, encompassing 17,659 minutes played.
With the Impact, he had 45 goals and 10 assists for 100 points in 136 regular season games, 104 of which he started, for 9,440 minutes, and finished as the team's second all-time leading scorer behind Mauro Bello.
He also played in USL for the Vancouver Whitecaps (1999, 2006-08), the Rochester Rhinos (2000) and the Hershey Bears (2001).
He won five championship titles in his career, two with the Impact in 2004 and 2009.
In his first season with the Impact in 2002, he was named winner of the Giuseppe Saputo Trophy as their Most Valuable Player after scoring 18 goals.
Returning to Montreal in 2009, he had a hat trick in the quarterfinal round of the CONCACAF Champions League against Santos Laguna of Mexico.
Sebrango also played 24 games for Cuba's national team, scoring 16 goals. He was named the team's Player of the Year in 1997 and was on the 1998 CONCACAF Gold Cup and FIFA World Cup qualifying team.
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