In 1990, his freshman season, Salcedo scored the decisive penalty kick shootout goal to give the Bruins the NCAA Men's Soccer Championship.
Following his four seasons with the Bruins, Salcedo signed with the Los Angeles Salsa of the American Professional Soccer League.
In his rookie season in the league, he was a starter for the Los Angeles Galaxy and helped take his team to the MLS Cup Final.
Halfway through the 1998 season, on June 29, 1998, the Fire traded him to the Tampa Bay Mutiny for Josh Keller and a first-round pick in the 1999 MLS College Draft.
On March 12, 2019, Salcedo was arrested, and indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for conspiracy to commit racketeering for alleged participation in the 2019 college admissions bribery scandal.
[4] His indictment charged Salcedo with taking $200,000 in bribes to help two students, one in 2016 and one in 2018, get admitted to UCLA using falsified soccer credential admission information.
[10] On March 19, 2021, U.S. District Court Judge Indira Talwani sentenced Salcedo to 8 months in prison, 1 year of supervised release and a forfeiture of $200,000.