Chris Carrieri
American soccer player (born 1980)
Chris Carrieri (born April 28, 1980) is an American former professional soccer player who played as a forward. He played college soccer for the North Carolina Tar Heels, where he was named ACC Rookie of the Year and earned All-America honors. As a junior, he led the nation with 25 goals. He was selected first overall by the San Jose Earthquakes in the 2001 MLS SuperDraft and was traded during his rookie season to the Colorado Rapids, where he played through 2003.
Carrieri later played for the Rochester Raging Rhinos, Richmond Kickers, and Carolina RailHawks. With Richmond, he won the USL Second Division championship in 2006, scoring the championship-winning goal, and returned to the club in 2009 to win a second league title.
Career
College
Carrieri was born in San Antonio, Texas. After a successful high school career at North Stafford High School in Stafford, Virginia, Carrieri played college soccer at the University of North Carolina, where he was hugely successful. In his rookie year, he scored 13 goals and 3 assists, and was named the ACC Rookie of the Year. He did just as well his second year, finishing with 12 goals and 5 assists, and was named a third team NCAA All-American.
The public source identifies “Chris Carrieri” as american soccer player (born 1980). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chris, Carrieri and American.
Why this record matters
A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Chris Carrieri”, the useful work is to connect “american soccer player (born 1980)” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.
The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5106101. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980, 2001, 2003 and 2006.
Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
How to read it
Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.
- Establishing names and roles
- Building a first chronology
- Locating cited institutions
Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.
Three-step research path
- Establish the record: confirm the title “Chris Carrieri”, its source revision and the description used here.
- Expand the search: follow Chris Carrieri primary sources, Chris Carrieri archive and Chris research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
- Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.
Questions for further research
- Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Chris Carrieri”?
- How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
- Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
Search terms from this dossier
This entry incorporates text from “Chris Carrieri” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.