Ricardo "Kiki" Lara (born July 24, 1981, in Las Cruces, New Mexico) is an American former soccer player who last played for the USL First Division side Portland Timbers and currently works as head coach of the Incarnate Word Cardinals.
[1] Lara played college soccer in San Antonio, Texas at the University of the Incarnate Word.
[5] In 2005 while still a player with the Minnesota Thunder, he also worked as an assistant coach of the Washington State University women's soccer program.
[6] On June 8, 2009, he was named as an assistant coach for the Dayton Flyers men's soccer team.
[7] He was named the head coach of the Eastern Illinois Panthers men's soccer team on March 10, 2015.