Los Angeles City College

Born in Mexico and raised in El Monte, California. Coach Aguiniga began his soccer involvement from the age of 10 years old at the recreational level at a local soccer team: Nacional del Valle. At the high school level played 4 years at Mountain View High School and graduated Valedictorian. Upon high school graduation he would move on to study and play at UCLA in their Men's Intercollegiate Club Team for 3 years. Soon after graduating from UCLA he went on to captain the Rio Hondo College Men's Soccer Team to a #12 National Ranking and would go on to begin his coaching career at the high school level at Mountain View High School. After winning back to back CIF championships with Mountain View in 2009 and 2010, Coach Aguiniga would go on to coach at East Los Angeles College for 3 years. He would then coach Bell High School’s Boys Soccer Team to win an LA City Section Division 1 CIF Championship. This would lead Coach Aguiniga back to Rio Hondo College to help coach and manage the men's soccer program for the past 6 years. During the same time at Rio, he served as the head coach of the Nogales High School Boys Soccer Program leading them to 3 Montview League Titles and 6 playoff appearances and 6 top 10 CIF Rankings. In his last and current coaching endeavor, Coach Aguiniga has been coaching and managing the Downey High School Girls Soccer Program for the last 3 years.  

Now with more than a decade coaching experience, Coach Aguiniga holds an NSCAA Advanced National Diploma, a USSF National D Coaching License, a Mathematics Bachelor Degree from UCLA, a Masters in Math Education from WGU, and a Masters in Physical Education from APU. Hard work, passion and commitment is what drives his programs and he is a huge advocate for education and his athletes as a professor and full time teacher of mathematics.

Just recently in early 2020 Coach Aguiniga has been named the Head Coach of the Los Angeles City College Men's Soccer Program and hopes to have a great impact on and off the field at LACC. 

Lior played high school soccer at Viewpoint High School in Calabasas, playing all four years there. After graduating from Viewpoint, Lior went on to get his Bachelor's in Earth and Space Sciences from the University of Washington. 

After getting his Bachelor's Lior returned to Los Angeles and started coaching soccer starting at the Middle School Level and has moved all the way up to the College Level.

In the past couple of years Lior has become a USSF C license coach working on getting his A license. This past year Lior received his Masters in Coaching and Athletic Administration from Concordia University Irvine. 

Lior spent three years as an assistant coach in the Women's soccer program over at Santa Monica College, with the last two as the top assistant coach. Santa Monica College had it's most successful period during that time, winning it's first two league titles. 

The past two years Lior has been the top assistant coach at Granada Hills Charter High School. In those two years, Granada Hills has won the Division 1 LA City Section CIF finals.

In March 2020 Coach Lipman was named the Head Coach of the Los Angeles City College Women's Soccer Program.