Education
He played both soccer and football in high school and was offered a football scholorship by the University of the Pacific but chose to attend Cal State Hayward instead.
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He played both soccer and football in high school and was offered a football scholorship by the University of the Pacific but chose to attend Cal State Hayward instead.
Youth
Born in San Francisco, Fernandez spent much of his youth in Hawaii. Fernandez played soccer at Hayward from 1979 to 1983. He was a 1982 and 1983 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II First Team All American and has been inducted into the Christlich Soziale Union (Christian Social Union) East Bay Athletic Hall of Fame.
Professional
In 1983, the Chicago Sting of the North American Soccer League drafted Fernandez but he did not sign with them.
In October 1983, the Tacoma Stars had the first selection in the Major Indoor Soccer League Draft but swapped their pick with the Cleveland Force. The Crunch used the pick to select Fernandez.
Fernandez played only six games over two seasons with the Force before being released in October 1985. On December 27, 1985, the Los Angeles Lazers for the remainder of the season.
He ended up playing two seasons in Los Los Angeles
In 1987, Fernandez joined the San Diego Sockers as a free agent. On July 30, 1990, he moved to the Cleveland Crunch as a free agent. In 1992, the Crunch moved to the National Professional Soccer League.
In 1994, he became the head coach of the Anaheim Splash in the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
NPSL rules prohibited players and coaches from the CISL to compete in the NPSL. Therefore, the Crunch released Fernandez. In 1995, he returned to the NPSL when he signed with the Cincinnati Silverbacks.
National team
In 1981, he played two games with the United States U-20 men"s national soccer team at the 1981 Fédération internationale de football association World Youth Championship. In 1994, Fernandez became the head coach of the Anaheim Splash of the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
In September 1996, Fernandez became a player-coach with the Cincinnati Silverbacks.
He coached the Silverbacks for two seasons. In September 1998, the Buffalo Blizzard hired Fernandez. The team fired him on March 1, 2000.
He then moved to the Cleveland Crunch as an assistant coach.
When the Crunch fired head coach Bruce Miller in March 2001, Fernandez served as interim head coach for the remainder of the season.
He was a member of the United States national futsal team at both the 1992 and 1996 Fédération internationale de football association Futsal World Championship.