Men's Soccer
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- lumensoccer@liberty.edu
- Start Date:
- 10/01/2020
Douglas Oliveira joined the Liberty men's coaching staff as an assistant coach during the fall of 2020.
After helping to guide the program through the postponement of the 2020 season, the Flames posted a 7-3-2 mark in Oliveira’s first season on staff during the Spring of 2021. For the first time in program history, Liberty received a national ranking during the year, climbing as high as 15th in the United Soccer Coaches Poll on March 15.
The Flames opened the season with a program-record six consecutive shutouts, including the program’s first-ever win at North Carolina. Liberty went on to finish the year with eight shutouts to post the second-best shutout percentage in the nation (.667).
Before joining the Flames staff, Oliveira served as an assistant coach for two seasons with the Mississippi Brilla FC. Based in Clinton, Miss., the soccer ministry and USL-2 team is Mississippi's only Premier Development League (PDL) franchise and performs ongoing inner-city work through its Urban Soccer Project. Also, while working on his master's degree in human performance at Liberty, Oliveira served as the Flames team manager from Feb. 2019 through May 2020.
The Campinas, Brazil native played two collegiate seasons at Indiana Wesleyan and two collegiate seasons at John Brown. The Wildcats' center back, he was part of Indiana Wesleyan's NCCAA National runner-up squad in 2017. In addition, he played for the PDL's Charlotte Eagles from 2016-18. In 2017, he was named to the All-Eastern Conference team, as the Eagles won the PDL title.
Oliveira graduated from Indiana Wesleyan with a bachelor's degree in exercise science with a minor in coaching. He earned a master's degree in human performance with a strength and conditioning cognate from Liberty in May of 2020.
He holds a National "D" Coaching License from U.S. Soccer.
