Mike Barca

Miguel "Mike" Barca (born January 30, 1954) is a retired American soccer goalkeeper who played professionally in the North American Soccer League, American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.

Barca attended Fairleigh Dickinson University where he played on the men's soccer team from 1971 to 1974. He was a 1974 Honorable Mention (third team) All American and graduated in 1975 with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. Barca turned professional in 1975 with the Hartford Bicentennials of the North American Soccer League. In 1977, he joined the New Jersey Americans of the American Soccer League where he played two seasons. In 1978, he signed with the Cleveland Force of Major Indoor Soccer League.

Barca retired from professional soccer in 1980. In April 1982, Monchik Weber hired Barca as a program manager. In 1984, he moved to AT&T where he held a variety of management positions over the next twenty-two years. He became an independent contractor in 2007.

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Barca

Barca or Barce may refer to:

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Surname

Barca (ancient city)

Barca, also called Barce) (Greek: Βάρκη, Arabic: برقة‎, Berber: Berqa) is an Ancient city and former bishopric, which survives in both Latin Catholic and Orthodox titular see.

History

Antiquity

Barca an ancient Greek colony and later a Roman and a Byzantine city in North Africa. It was in the coastal area of what is today Libya. As a Greek city, it was part of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis along with the city of Cyrene itself.

According to most archeologists, it was situated at Marj, but according to Alexander Graham it was at Tolmeita (Ptolemais). No remains of the ancient settlement are visible at Marj, but some of the finds made there during the Italian colonial dominance of Libya (1913–41) are on display in the museum at Tolmeita.

The city's name, Arabized as Barqah, came to refer to the former state and province of Cyrenaica.

Since the Arab conquest

Barce was part of the Exarchate of Africa until it was conquered by the Arabs in 643–644 during the Islamic conquest of North Africa. It originally served as the capital of the Barqah province of the Caliphate. When the Ottoman Turks conquered the region in 1521, they used the Turkish form "Barka" for the province, but did not retain the city's status as its capital.

Barca bicolor

Barca is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae. It contains only one species, Barca bicolor, which is found in Tibet and Yunnan.

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