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Tony Frias
Personal information
Full name	Anthony Charles Frias III
Date of birth	November 16, 1979 (age 44)
Place of birth	Hudson, Massachusetts, United States
Height	5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s)	Midfielder, Striker
College career
Years	Team
	Mount Ida Mustangs
Senior career*
Years	Team
2000–2001	Marítimo B
2001	Marítimo
2001–2003	New England Revolution
2004–2006	Lusitânia
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Anthony Charles Frias III (born November 16, 1979) is an American retired soccer player who played as a midfielder or striker.

Biography

Born in Hudson, Massachusetts, Frias played his collegiate soccer at nearby Mount Ida College in Newton, Massachusetts. He practiced with the New England Revolution in 1999 as Italian Walter Zenga was the manager, but was not signed due to oblique surgery.

In the 2000–01 season Frias appeared once for C.S. Marítimo in the Portuguese Primeira Liga, in the country of his parents. Previously, he had unsuccessful trials at S.L. Benfica and C.F. Estrela da Amadora.

Frias was eventually signed by the Revolution on July 19, 2001^[2] but, after having suffered a number of injuries,^[3] he was released on waivers on 25 November 2003, never having played for the team.^[4] He then returned to Portugal, representing Azores club S.C. Lusitânia during one-and-a-half third division campaigns.