Tony DiCicco
| Tony DiCicco | ||
 DiCicco at Brandi Chastain's farewell game (2010)
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Anthony D. DiCicco Jr. | |
| birthday | August 5, 1948 | |
| place of birth | Hartford , Connecticut , United States | |
| date of death | 19th June 2017 | |
| position | goalkeeper | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1966-1970 | Springfield College | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| Connecticut Wildcats | ||
| Rhode Island Oceaneers | ||
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1973 | United States | 1 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1991 | USA (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 1993 | USA U20 (men) (goalkeeping coach) | |
| 1994-1999 | United States | |
| 2007-2008 | SoccerPlus Connecticut | |
| 2008 | USA U20 | |
| 2009-2011 | Boston Breakers | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Anthony D. DiCicco Jr. (born August 5, 1948 in Hartford , Connecticut , † June 19, 2017 ) was an American football goalkeeper , coach and official . As a coach, he was mainly in the women's game actively and won with the US national team at the 1996 Olympic Games and the World Cup in 1999 respectively, the gold medal .
Career
player
DiCicco played as a goalkeeper for his college, Springfield College in Springfield , and later for the franchises of the Connecticut Wildcats and the Rhode Island Oceaneers in the American Soccer League . In 1973 he completed an international match for the USA national team .
Trainer
DiCicco began his coaching career in 1991 as the goalkeeping coach of the US women's national team . In 1993 he held the same position for the US male U-20 team before returning to the women's national team in 1994 as head coach. With this DiCicco won the gold medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , and three years later World Cup gold at the 1999 World Cup . Of the 119 international matches under his leadership, the USA won 103 (with eight draws and eight defeats).
From 2007 to 2008 he was coach of the WPSL franchise Soccer Plus Connecticut , he also led the female U-20 national team of the United States to the world champion title in 2008 . From 2009 to 2011 he was coach of the WPS franchise the Boston Breakers .
official
DiCicco acted from the year 2000, initially as COO in the establishment of the first American women's football professional league WUSA and later as director ( English commissioner ) of the same. From December 2013, he advised the newly founded soccer franchise Houston Dash on coaching and squad planning before the 2014 season .
TV expert
At the women's soccer world championships in 2003 , 2007 and 2011 , he worked as an expert for the television channel ESPN , and he also worked in the same role for NBC at the Olympic Games .
Web links
- Tony DiCicco in the database of weltfussball.de
- Tony DiCicco in the Soccerdonna.de database
Individual evidence
- ^ US coach Tony DiCicco dies at 68; won 1999 Women's World Cup
- ↑ a b c d Profile of Tony DiCicco ( memento from October 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), espnmediazone.com (English). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
- ↑ PLUS: SOCCER - WOMEN'S UNITED SOCCER ASSOCIATION; DiCicco Is Named As Commissioner , nytimes.com (English). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
- ↑ Houston Dash hire Tony DiCicco in a consulting role , houstondynamo.com (English). Retrieved December 29, 2013.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | DiCicco, Tony |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | DiCicco, Anthony D. Jr. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American soccer player, coach and official |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hartford , Connecticut , United States |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th June 2017 |