Staff

Front Office

Lisa Garza

Co-Founder

Lisa is not new to soccer. Her father, Nick (Nicky) Borzillo played soccer with the group of soccer players from “The Hill”, who played in the World Cup in 1950, representing USA. Her father at that time was in the Korean War but began playing with the team in 1951. Nick was in many newspaper articles for playing soccer with the team. Lisa’s son Ricardo Garza inherited her father’s gene for soccer. And so, she became a very supportive “Soccer Mom” for many years. So much that she decided to purchase the Club Atletico Saint Louis team her son was coaching. Lisa has been in operations / design field for 20 years. She is organized, efficient, committed to excellence, and attention to detail.

Ricardo Garza

Co-Founder | Head Coach

Emailricardo@gobluebirds.com

Ricardo Garza has 20 years of experience in coaching and developing the game of soccer. Ricardo helped launch two international soccer academies bridging two continents into the St. Louis soccer community. Club Atletico Juniors soccer academy is located in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Club Atletico CRSA is located in Lusaka, Zambia. Garza grew up playing youth soccer in South St. Louis, Missouri and attended Bishop DuBourg High School. In 2005 Garza helped launched Jefferson College and soon after became the head coach. Garza won a National Championship and multiple Conference, Regional and District Championships. Garza's mission in life is to connect cultures together and include all communities of the St. Louis area. Garza wants to fight inequality for youth and provide opportunity to all communities across St. Louis. Garza founded Crossover Media, a marketing company specializing in Video Content Creation.

Martino Garza

Gameday Operations Coordinator

Emailmartino@gobluebirds.com

Ashley Biundo

Media Director

Ashley was born and raised in St. Louis, MO. Graduated from Fox High School in 2015 and graduated from STLCC-Meramec in 2017. Got into sports at 2 years old and began to play soccer from 4 years old until graduating high school.

Joined the newspaper in college and did sports journalism for 6 years and the last 2 years became Editor-in-Chief.

I grew up in photography because of my mom and began taking classes in high school and in college.

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Emmanuel Forbes

Technical Staff

Emmanuel was born in Colon Panama. Played four years at the collegiate level for Southern Wesleyan University. Played three years Semi-Professional. Played two years for the St. Louis Ambush. Coached two years at Lindenwood University-Belleville. Currently, Emmanuel is coaching for Impact City FC.