Education
Vargas attended Miami Coral Park High School and played youth soccer with Inter Juventus in Miami. After high school, he chose to forgo college and moved to Europe to train with Valencienne in France and Sporting Club of Portugal.
Vargas attended Miami Coral Park High School and played youth soccer with Inter Juventus in Miami. After high school, he chose to forgo college and moved to Europe to train with Valencienne in France and Sporting Club of Portugal.
Foreign the Colombian road cyclist with the same name see Nélson Vargas
Youth
He signed his first professional contract at the age of 16 to play for Standard Liege in Belgium. Professional
The Tampa Bay Mutiny selected Vargas in the twelfth round (117th overall) in the 1996 Master of Library Science Inaugural Player Draft. He spent two seasons with the Mutiny before the Miami Fusion selected Vargas in the 1997 Master of Library Science Expansion Draft.
On July 25, 2000 while playing in an Open Cup game in Saginaw, Michigan, Vargas sustained a right ankle sprain that turned out to be a career-ending injury.
After three seasons in Miami, the Fusion waived Vargas on November 2000. International
In the second round, the team tied Qatar 1-1 in regulation only to fall 5-4 in penalty kicks.
At the time, Slivinski was the youngest United States. player to earn a cap and Vargas was only three months older. Vargas did not play again with the senior national team until November 19, 1994 in a loss to Trinidad and Tobago.
He then played two more games that year, his last coming on December 11.
In 1993, Vargas was selected for the United States. team which qualified for the 1993 U-20 World Cup to be held in Australia. He scored two goal in the CONCACAF qualifying games. At the World Cup, the United States. went 1-1-1 in group play, qualifying for the second round where it fell to Brazil.
In 1996, United States. coach Bruce Arena named Vargas to the United States. soccer team at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Once again, the team went 1-1-1, but this time failed to make the second round. He also starred in a Powerade and Allsport commercial that also featured Alexi Lalas.
He was also a member of the United States. soccer team at the 1996 Summer Olympics. In 1991, Vargas was a member of the United States men"s national under-17 soccer team at the U-17 World Youth Championship which went 3-0 in the first round.