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<p>It was his love for soccer that made Joel Valdovinos enroll at San Diego City College more than 20 years ago. His high school soccer coach, Milton Hidalgo, was going to start teaching at SDCC, so Valdovinos decided to follow him.</p>
<p>It was also, in part, his love for soccer that during his second year at the college, he decided to major in civil engineering.<br>