Joe Nasco

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Joe Nasco
Personnel
Surname Joseph Nasco
birthday June 18, 1984
place of birth Kissimmee , Florida ,  USA
size 190 cm
position goalkeeper
Juniors
Years station
1998-2002 Osceola High School
2003-2004 Andrew College
2005-2007 Birmingham – Southern College
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2008 Panama City Pirates 8 (0)
2012-2013 Atlanta Silverbacks 23 (0)
2014 Colorado Rapids 4 (0)
2014 Colorado Rapids Res. 4 (0)
2014 →  Atlanta Silverbacks  (loan) 4 (0)
2015 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2016– Birmingham – Southern College (Co-Tr./TW-Tr.)
1 Only league games are given.
As of November 1, 2016

Joseph "Joe" Nasco (born June 18, 1984 in Kissimmee , Florida ) is an American football player in the position of goalkeeper . Nasco, who interrupted his career as a football player for a few years to work as a Police Officer (Deputy Sheriff) at the Gordon County Sheriff's Office , only found his way into professional football in 2012 and made his debut two years later, now at the age of 30, in the highest North American football league. The soccer player, who is rarely used, is now also active as a goalkeeper, co-trainer and junior trainer.

Career

Career start

Joe Nasco was born the son of Don C. Nasco (1951-2006) in the city of Kissimmee in the US state of Florida, where he grew up at the side of his sister Kayla and brother Tony and from 1998 to 2002 the local Osceola High School , where he was also a soccer player, attended. In his early career, he was particularly encouraged by his father, who attended a large number of his games before he died while his son was studying in 2006 at the age of 55. From 2003 to 2004, Joe Nasco attended Andrew College in Cuthbert , Georgia , where he was a member of the men's soccer team in the Andrew Fighting Tigers sports department and where he had chosen Sports Management as his major . Already here he was able to convince with his performance and came as an All-American from the Junior College in Georgia to the Birmingham-Southern College in Birmingham , Alabama , where he then studied from 2005 to 2007. As a major, he chose business administration and was also a member of the men's soccer team in the Birmingham-Southern Panthers sports department . It was only here that he received special goalkeeping training and was significantly promoted in his position. In the NCAA Division III team , he was also considered an outstanding player and was chosen in the course of his career there in 2005 in the All-Conference selection of the Big South Conference . After he had already struggled with injuries during his college career and several trial training sessions with professional teams ( Chicago Fire , Puerto Rico Islanders and Real Maryland Monarchs ) failed after graduation , he came to a brief engagement with the amateur franchise Panama City Pirates from the USL PDL , before he initially spoke out against a career as a football player in 2008. After receiving an offer from the Puerto Rico Islanders but not getting by on $ 600 a month as a salary, he canceled the franchise and began a brief job as a truck driver for a Georgia company. After attending a police academy, he began his career as Deputy Sheriff at the Gordon County Sheriff's Office in Calhoun , Georgia in February 2010 , where he worked under his future father-in-law.

Start in professional football after a career in the police force

During his career as a police officer, he attended a training camp run by the Atlanta Silverbacks professional franchise in January 2012 and played in the second-rate North American Soccer League (NASL). After he trained with the team from this time on and was constantly praised by the goalkeeping coach Jose “Gaucho” Pinho , he signed his first professional contract with the Silverbacks on March 21, 2012, at the age of 27. He should act as number 2 behind the Hungarian goalkeeper Dániel Illyés and only play sporadically. It then took almost two months before Nasco made his professional debut when he was used on May 16, 2012 in a 3-0 away defeat against the Puerto Rico Islanders over the full game. Among other things, he was able to parry a penalty, but not prevent the margin and the resulting goal. Just two weeks later, he also played a game for the Silverbacks against Seattle Sounders FC in the 2012 Lamar Hunt US Open Cup , as a result of which the team lost 5-1 to the MLS franchise. As a result, the former police officer managed one more deployment each for the full duration of the game in July and in September by the end of the 2012 season and ended the season with the team in seventh of eight places in the table and thus did not make it into the season-closing Play- offs. In the meantime, he had married his partner Amber White on June 23, 2012 in Carrollton , Georgia.

He then only found his breakthrough in the team after the departure of Hungary, who moved back to his homeland, when he rose to the regular in the goal of the Atlanta Silverbacks at the beginning of the 2013 game year . In 2013 he was used in 20 league games over the entire season and finished with the team, among other things, in the spring championship in first place in the table, whereby the team already completed the season final Soccer Bowl , the final game of the championship. In the autumn championship, which was held after the spring, the team, after New York Cosmos had entered the league scene, only reached the seventh of eight places and competed in the following Soccer Bowl against New York Cosmos, the winner of the autumn round. The final game was then lost 1-0 after the Brazilian-born former Spanish international Marcos Senna scored the decisive goal for New York Cosmos. Although he was not one of the best goalkeepers in the league in the goalkeeping standings at the end of the season, he was nevertheless voted into the North American Soccer League Team of the Year , the NASL Best XI . This also made other teams aware of the goalkeeper who subsequently wooed him.

Moved to MLS debut at age 30

After he was already in the preparatory phase for the 2014 MLS game year and only allowed a single goal in 75 minutes, he received a four-year contract with three additional team options with the major league soccer franchise Colorado Rapids on February 12, 2014 . On March 15, 2014, the second round of the game and only seven days after the birth of daughter Caroline Marie, Joe Nasco sat on the bench for the first time in the highest North American football league, but was not used for the time being. He should have made his MLS debut in the season opener after an injury to the goalkeeper in preparation for the season, but missed this due to the birth of his daughter. Instead, he had to fight with John Berner for the position as substitute goalkeeper behind the number 1, Clint Irwin , and during this time also played a few games for the reserve team with play in the MLS Reserve League , which was dissolved this year. In July 2014 he was awarded to his former employer, Atlanta Silverbacks, with whom he was to stay until the end of the season. However, since the Colorado Rapids insured themselves to take Nasco out of the loan agreement and bring it back to the franchise at any time, this option of a return was already drawn in the following month. It was only towards the end of August 2014 that Nasco advanced to the position of 1-goal goalkeeper and made his MLS debut on August 30, 2014 in a 1-0 away defeat by Seattle Sounders FC, when he played the Goal kept and saved five shots on goal. He achieved above-average notoriety on his second championship appearance on September 5, 2014, when he set a new MLS record for the fastest red card received . In the game against LA Galaxy he received a red card after only 34 completed seconds for a foul on Alan Gordon ; the game, in which the actual goalkeeper Irwin was in goal, ended in a clear 0: 6 defeat. After he was suspended for a game, coach Pablo Mastroeni put him in two more league games in September, with which Nasco was in a total of four MLS games by the end of the season and had made as many appearances in the MLS Reserve League.

As a replacement for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and first coaching activities

Since assignments as a regular at the Colorado Rapids were hopeless, Nasco went looking for a new employer despite the current contract and completed, among other things, trial training with league rivals New England Revolution . So it was handed over to New England Revolution at the end of 2014 together with their third-round draft pick in the MLS SuperDraft 2015 by the Colorado Rapids, whereupon the Rapids in return the players Dimitry Imbongo and Geoffrey Castillion , as well as a second-round draft pick received in the MLS SuperDraft 2015. However, since he was not offered a contract here, he then moved back to the North American second division, where he was signed with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers , formerly Miami FC . With the Strikers he signed a contract until the end of the season and at that time was one of two goalkeepers in the squad together with the also inexperienced David Meves , who was then joined by permanent replacement Lionel Brown as the third goalkeeper. After Josh Ford came to the Strikers on loan at the end of May and immediately acted as a regular, Nasco had little chance of a deployment in the NASL. His only NASL appearance that year was on April 25, 2015, when he, as a replacement for the injured Meves, played in a 3-1 away win over Ottawa Fury from the start and from the 12th minute of the game due to an injury by Lionel Brown was replaced. After suffering a broken fibula, he was supposed to be used again until the end of the season after an operation, but this failed.

After his contract expired at the end of the 2015 season and he was henceforth without a club, but worked on the side for the West Coast Goalkeeping program , he was hired by his former alma mater , Birmingham-Southern College , as an assistant and goalkeeping coach in May 2016 . Since then he has been working with the new head coach Greg Vinson , who previously served as the assistant coach of the men's football team for 20 years and was the first assistant coach in the history of the football program at Birmingham-Southern College.

successes

with the Atlanta Silverbacks

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Like Shaq, MLS goalkeeper Joe Nasco doubles as sheriff , accessed November 1, 2016
  2. ^ Nasco to patrol Strikers goal , accessed August 1, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Nasco makes five saves in MLS debut , accessed November 1, 2016
  4. ↑ a b c Silverback's Sign Goalkeeper Nasco ( memento of April 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on November 1, 2016
  5. ↑ a b Islanders Extend NASL Lead With 3-0 Win ( Memento of November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 1, 2016
  6. ↑ NASL Unveils 2013 Best XI ( Memento from November 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 1, 2016
  7. ^ Nasco and Watts join the Rapids ranks , accessed November 1, 2016
  8. ↑ Rapids goalkeeper Joe Nasco gave up being a police officer for soccer , accessed November 1, 2016
  9. ↑ GOALKEEPER JOE NASCO RETURNS TO ATLANTA ON LOAN FROM MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER'S COLORADO RAPIDS ( Memento of the original from November 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed on November 1, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / 10soccer.com
  10. ↑ Joe Nasco returns to the Rapids after loan to Atlanta Silverbacks FC , accessed November 1, 2016
  11. ↑ a b Colorado Rapids' Joe Nasco earns the fastest red card in MLS history with first minute ejection vs. LA Galaxy , accessed November 1, 2016
  12. ^ Defender Jacob Van Compernolle to Join the Revolution for Preseason , accessed November 1, 2016
  13. ↑ Colorado Rapids trade goalkeeper Joe Nasco to the Revolution , accessed November 1, 2016
  14. ↑ a b Strikers sign former MLS goalkeeper Nasco , accessed on November 1, 2016
  15. ↑ Fury FC drops another home game , accessed November 1, 2016
  16. ↑ NASCO EXPECTED TO MAKE FULL COMEBACK FOLLOWING SURGERY , accessed on November 1, 2016
  17. ↑ Joe Nasco named Men's Soccer Assistant Coach , accessed November 1, 2016
  18. ↑ Greg Vinson on the official website of the Birmingham – Southern Panthers (English), accessed on November 1, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Nasco, Joe
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nasco, Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American football goalkeeper
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Kissimmee , Florida , United States