Cesidio Colasante

Last updated
Cesidio Colasante
Personal information
Date of birth (1975-01-10) January 10, 1975 (age 48)
Place of birth Wilmington, Delaware, United States
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Position(s) Midfielder
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1994–1997 La Salle Explorers 77 (76)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1998–1999 Philadelphia KiXX (indoor) 26 (3)
1999–2000 Hershey Wildcats 25 (1)
2000–2003 Philadelphia KiXX (indoor) 73 (42)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Cesidio Colasante is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the National Professional Soccer League and USL A-League.

Contents

Career

Youth and College

Colasante graduated from Salesianum School in Wilmington, Delaware, where he was an All State soccer player. After high school, Colasante attended La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he was a 1997 Third Team All American. [1] He is a member of the La Salle Athletic Hall of Fame. [2]

Professional

On February 1, 1998, the MetroStars selected Colasante in the third round (twenty-eighth overall) in the 1998 MLS College Draft. The team released him during the pre-season. In the last summer of 1998, he signed with the Philadelphia KiXX of the National Professional Soccer League who had drafted him in the January 2, 1998, NPSL draft. [3] In 1999, he moved to the Hershey Wildcats of the USL A-League. In June 2000, he returned to the KiXX. [4] In July 2003, the KiXX traded Mark Moser, Kevin Hundelt, Droo Callahan and Matt DeJong to the St. Louis Steamers in exchange for Colasante and Ze Santana. [5]

Related Research Articles

Lee Tschantret is a retired soccer defender. He spent most of his career in the National Professional Soccer League and its successor, the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also played outdoor soccer in the American Professional Soccer League and USL A-League.

Goran Hunjak is a retired football player.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Steve Klein (soccer)</span> American soccer player and coach

Steve Klein is an American soccer coach and former professional player, who spent one season in Major League Soccer and eleven in the USL First Division and its predecessors. On January 20, 2010, he was ranked 24th in the USL First Division Top 25 of the Decade, which announced a list of the best and most influential players of the previous decade.

Anthony Maher was a soccer forward. Maher was a 10-year outdoor and indoor soccer professional and also a member of the United States National Futsal team and took part in the 2007 Pan-American Games in Brazil. Maher retired in 2013.

Dave MacWilliams is a retired American soccer forward and head coach who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. He is also the former head coach of the Temple University men's soccer team.

Bojan "Bo" Vučković is a Serbian footballer, who owned and played for the now defunct Vermont Voltage in the USL Premier Development League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dan Antoniuk</span> American soccer player

Daniel Antoniuk is an American soccer player who last played for the Tacoma Stars in the Major Arena Soccer League.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kevin Hundelt</span>

Kevin Hundelt is a retired American soccer player who spent his entire professional career playing in indoor leagues. These include the first Major Indoor Soccer League and second Major Indoor Soccer League, National Professional Soccer League and Continental Indoor Soccer League. He was the 1999 NPSL Defender of the Year and also earned one cap with the United States men's national under-20 soccer team in 1987.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Omid Namazi</span> American soccer player-coach

Omid Hamid Namazi is an American retired soccer defender who is currently the head coach and the director of scouting for USL Championship club Hartford Athletic. Namazi played professionally in the American Soccer League, American Professional Soccer League, Major League Soccer, USISL and National Professional Soccer League where he was the 2001 Defender of the Year and he played for United States national futsal team. He is a two-time Coach of the Year in the Major Indoor Soccer League and coached in the Women's United Soccer Association. As assistant coach of Iran, he led the team to qualification to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2015 AFC Asian Cup.

Kevin Sloan is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the American Soccer League, American Professional Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. He has also coached professionally and is the former head coach of the Neumann College men's soccer team. Kevin took on a bigger role in 2015, when he resigned from Neumann to take on a new challenge as a scout for Manchester City

Jon Akin is a retired American soccer forward who is the head coach of the Oglethorpe University men's soccer team.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ryan Richter</span> American soccer player and coach

Ryan Richter is an American former professional soccer player and current assistant coach for Philadelphia Union in MLS.

Mike Feniger is a retired American soccer player.

Matthew Caution is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the USISL and the National Professional Soccer League.

Gary DePalma is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the USL A-League, National Professional Soccer League and second Major Indoor Soccer League.

Jeremy Aldrich is a retired American soccer defender who spent two seasons in Major League Soccer.

Glenn Carbonara is a retired American soccer defender who spent his entire professional career in the American indoor leagues.

Robert Joseph "Bobby Joe" Esposito is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in the Western Soccer Alliance, Major Indoor Soccer League and National Professional Soccer League.

Jason Cairns is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in the USISL A-League

Mali Walton is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in the National Professional Soccer League and USL A-League. He won the 1998, 2000 and 2001 USL A-League and the 1999 U.S. Open Cup championships with the Rochester Rhinos.

References

  1. ↑ 1997 All Americans Archived November 15, 2006, at the Wayback Machine
  2. ↑ "La Salle Athletic Hall of Fame: Cesidio Colasante". Archived from the original on 2011-11-16. Retrieved 2011-04-29.
  3. ↑ Kixx Draft Explorers Forward Cesidio Colasante
  4. ↑ Former La Salle Star Ready To Make Impact
  5. ↑ July 29, 2003 Transactions Archived October 2, 2012, at the Wayback Machine
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.