Coaches

Victor Olivares

Assistant Coach

victor.olivares@tamiu.edu

956-326-3390

The latest on everything
College Soccer

Illustration of a rocket coming out of a mobile phone

Get our 5-minute, daily newsletter on what matters in college soccer.

Olivares was born in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua Mexico. He attended Lydia Patterson Institute In El Paso, Texas, for four years to later received a scholarship to attend Hiwassee College in Madisonville, Tennessee, for his freshman and sophomore year.

He graduated from West Texas A&M University in 2013 after transferring to play his junior and senior years and serving as a graduate assistant coach for one year at WTAMU.

In 2017, he moved to Toluca, Mexico to work in the second-tier division of the Mexican Professional League System for Potros UAEM as an assistant to the strength and conditioning coach.

From 2019-2021, Olivares completed a professional master's in football organized by F.C. Barcelona Methodology Department, a second master's from MBP School of Coaches and is in the process of completing a third master's in Masters in High Performance of Teams Sports (Mastercede) from the National Institute of Physical Education in Catalonia. 

While in Spain, he served as an intern assistant strength and conditioning coach to a third-division local team C.E. Europa.

In 2022 Olivares joined El Paso Locomotive, a USL Championship franchise in the second division of the professional tier of American Soccer. His role as Academy Director of Coaching Development and Methodology was to educate and optimize coaches on a daily basis and to create the pathway for our academy program. At the same time, he served as also the head coach of Americas High School.

He is currently enrolled in the Technical Director License from the Mexican Football Federation - National System of Capacitation for coaches holding an "A" coaching license from FIFA-CONCACAF. Also, he currently holds a USSF ''C" License from the united states soccer federation/FIFA.

Olivares is the son of Heriberto Olivares and Irene Garcia. Brother to Jair, Miguel, and Gabriela Olivares Garcia.

#1 College Soccer Newsletter

Join thousands of current readers and get our 5-minute, daily newsletter on what matters in college soccer.

Illustration of a rocket coming out of a mobile phone