John Pascarella

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John Pascarella
Personal information
Date of birth (1966-07-20) July 20, 1966 (age 57)
Place of birth New Jersey, United States
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Forward Madison (assistant coach)
College career
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1984–1987 Penn State Nittany Lions
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1988–1989 Washington Stars
1989–1990 Sport Boys
1991–1992 Alianza Atlético
1994 Richmond Kickers
1995 Standard Falcons
1996–1997 Los Angeles Galaxy
Managerial career
1998–2000 Maryland Terrapins (goalkeeping)
2001–2006 Herndon Hornets
2003–2008 U.S. Olympic Development Program
2007–2008 Northern Virginia Royals
2009–2010 Sporting Kansas City (goalkeeping & fitness)
2010–2017 Sporting Kansas City (assistant)
2017 Des Moines Menace
2017–2019 Minnesota United (goalkeeping)
2019–2021 OKC Energy
2022– Forward Madison (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

John Pascarella (born July 20, 1966) is an American soccer coach who is currently on the staff of Forward Madison FC in USL League One.

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Playing career

Raised in Vineland, New Jersey, Pascarella played prep soccer at Vineland High School together with Glenn Carbonara, with both graduating in 1984. [1]

Pascarella played four years of college soccer at Pennsylvania State University between 1984 and 1987, before playing professional soccer. He had stints with Washington Stars [2] and abroad in Peru with both Sport Boys [3] and Alianza Atlético, before returning to the United States. In the US, Pascarella played in the A-League and USISL Premier League with Richmond Kickers and Standard Falcons, before joining MLS side Los Angeles Galaxy in 1996. [4]

Management career

Pascarella's coaching career began at the University of Maryland in 1998. He later was head coach at Herndon High School, the U.S. Olympic Development Program in Virginia and with USL PDL side Northern Virginia Royals. He joined Peter Vermes at Kansas City Wizards in MLS as goalkeeping coach in 2009, before becoming an assistant coach. [4]

In 2017, he was named head coach at PDL side Des Moines Menace, [5] [6] getting the team to the Conference Finals.

On December 21, 2017, Pascarella was appointed goalkeeping coach with Minnesota United ahead of their inaugural season in MLS. [7]

On November 22, 2019, Pascarella was named head coach of USL Championship side OKC Energy, his first fully professional head coaching position. [8]

On June 4, 2021, following a winless start to the 2021 USL Championship season, Pascarella and the OKC Energy mutually agreed to part ways. [9]

Pascarella joined Forward Madison FC's staff on January 7, 2022. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Bennett, Kyle. "Men's Soccer Makes Splash in Latest Head Coaching Hire", Rowan College of South Jersey, September 1, 2017. Accessed October 19, 2020. "As soccer season quickly approaches, a new era of coaching will be coming to the Cumberland County College Men's Program this season. Vineland natives John Pascarella and Glenn Carbonara will take the reins as the new Head Coach and Assistant Coach respectively.... The two were teammates at Vineland High School and were both members of the Class of 1984, where they both set records at their respective positions."
  2. ↑ Carr, Kyle; Meerman, Mitchell; Pascarella, John; Pieters, Grant; Schmidt, Andrew; Geoghegan Smith, Liam (February 1, 2023). "NDZ Live 005: From Vineland to Lima and back again with John Pascarella". Patreon.com (Podcast). New Dogma Zine. Event occurs at 33:31. Retrieved May 22, 2024. I've never played for a team called the Russian Stars. I don't even know where it comes from. The only thing I can think of is that somewhere along the way someone was interviewing me over the phone and I said 'Washington Stars' and it sounded like 'Russian Stars'.
  3. ↑ "John Pascarella: Green con card - De Chalaca | Futbol para el que la conoce". dechalaca.com.
  4. 1 2 "Weekly Update: New 'keeper coach | MLSsoccer.com".
  5. ↑ Cuellar, Chris. "Menace name Sporting K.C. assistant John Pascarella new head coach". Des Moines Register.
  6. ↑ "John Pascarella accepts position as Des Moines Menace head coach | Sporting Kansas City".
  7. ↑ "John Pascarella Joins MNUFC | Minnesota United FC".
  8. ↑ USLChampionship com Staff (November 22, 2019). "Energy FC Appoints John Pascarella as Head Coach". USL Championship.
  9. ↑ "ENERGY FC AND JOHN PASCARELLA PART WAYS". EnergyFC.com. Retrieved 4 June 2021.
  10. ↑ "𝙅𝙤𝙝𝙣 𝙋𝙖𝙨𝙘𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙅𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙁𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙤𝙨". Twitter.com. @ForwardMSNFC. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
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