carlos llamosa born june 30 1969 in palmira colombia is a colombianamerican soccer defender who last played for chivas usa of major league soccer llamosa is currently an assistant coach with the new york cosmosllamosa began his professional football career in 1986 with colombian third division club colmena in 1990 he moved to colombian first division side huila in 1991 llamosa emigrated to the united states to join the rest of his family which was at the time living in queens new york city llamosa found a job at the world trade center where he was working during the terrorist attack in 1993in 1995 llamosa reignited his professional career playing a season with the new york centaurs of the aleague in his second season with the club renamed the fever llamosa was named to the all aleague first teamllamosa was subsequently picked up by dc united in the 1997 mls supplemental draft and soon earned a starting spot on the team finishing the season with 20 starts in 25 games played while helping the team to a second consecutive mls cup llamosa remained a fixture in 1998 starting every game that he played in on october 23 1998 llamosa was naturalized as a united states citizen and earned his first cap on november 6 against australia just two weeks after becoming a citizen llamosa would go on to play in 29 games for the united states including the 1999 confederations cup and 2002 world cup qualifiers he made two substitute appearances during the 2002 fifa world cupllamosa remained with dc for the 1999 season again starting every game he played including the 1999 mls cup where he helped united to their third championship llamosa again was a fixture for united in 2000 starting 20 games and playing 1974 minutes however at the end of the 2000 season he was traded to the miami fusion in exchange for brian kamler and a first round draft pickllamosa continued his solid play with the fusion organizing the defense of one of leagues bestever offensive teams making 20 starts and playing 1827 minutes after the fusion folded at the end of 2001 llamosa was selected 5th overall in the 2002 mls allocation draft by the new england revolution he would play a significant role for the team over the next two seasons helping lead the revs to a 2002 mls cup appearance and starting 23 games for the team in 2003 llamosa missed all of the 2004 season however after injuring his acl during preseason he was released in early 2005 in 2006 llamosa came back to the league signing with chivas usallamosa was waived by chivas usa at the end of the 2007 season