Iain Baird
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Iain Baird | ||
| Date of birth | January 15, 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | Nanaimo, British Columbia | ||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1985 | Victoria Riptides | ||
| 1987–1988 | Ottawa Pioneers/Intrepid | 46 | (0) |
| 1989–1990 | Victoria Vistas | 22 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 1984–1986 | Canada | 9 | (0) |
| 1987 | Canadian Olympic (amateur) | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1998–2001 | Malaspina University College | ||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 17:47, 24 February 2007 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of May 7, 2008 | |||
Iain Baird (born January 1, 1963) is a Canadian former soccer defender who earned nine caps with the Canadian national soccer team between 1984 and 1986.
Baird played for the Victoria Riptides during the 1985 Western Soccer Alliance Challenge Cup. He played for the Ottawa Pioneers in the Canadian Soccer League in 1987 and again for the renamed Ottawa Intrepid in 1988.[1]
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.[2] During his years as a coach, he also taught physical education and Japanese at . He teaches physical education and coaches the junior and senior soccer teams at Dover Bay Secondary School in Nanaimo.
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