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  Joe (Giuseppe) Balsamo

Giuseppe (Joe) Balsamo was born in Switzerland and grew up in Palermo, Sicily, where he developed his passion for soccer.  Joe’s early influence was coach Zdeněk Zeman, who had coached great teams such as F.C. Lazio and A.S. Roma.  Joe became a professional player at the “Primavera” level at the early age of 16, and came to the United States at 17 to play in the old North American Soccer League (NASL).  He returned to Italy to play in the Italian Serie C for coach Giovanni Seghedoni, now director of F.C. Modena in Serie B.  In 1989, Joe returned to the United States and settled in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, where he lives with his wife Lisa and their two children.  Joe’s coaching accomplishments include many championships and titles at various age levels, including, in 2002, the championship of the Enzo Ferrari Cup in Italy, where his side defeated the squads of Juventus and Modena.  Other championships include the New York State Cup, the Pocono Cup, the Oneonta Cup and numerous league titles.  He also coached the United States representative team at the 2003 Danone Cup in Paris. 2007 Joe won the Eastern Conference Champions of the United SocAcer Leagues’ PDL

  Lodovico Costacurta 

Costacurta, also an A.C. Milan certified coach, began his career with Milan's youth team. He moved on to the Serie B and C of the Italian League before playing out the last five years of his career with Chiasso of the top Swiss League. He currently plays with the Italian Beach soccer team and was recently certified by the prestigious Italian National Soccer Federation, the FIGC.

  Angelo Orlando 

Angelo Orlando's 95 caps with Inter Milan speaks for itself. He featured prominently on the starting eleven of a squad with such stars as Denis Bergkamp, Lothar Matthaus, Jurgen Klinsmann, and Italian legend Walter Zenga. The defender finished his career in 1988 earing the title for the UEFA Cup in 1993 - 1994, 407 caps, 4 goals and having played for 6 different Italian clubs. Orlando is a FIGC certified coach.

Giovanni Savarese
Gio , born July 14 1971 in Caracacas  is a former Venezuelan soccer player of Italian descent who is best known for his stay with Metrostar  of Major League Soccer .
After moving to the United States to play college soccer at Long Island University, Savarese joined the Long Island Rough Riders of the USISL and combined with future MLS stars Tony Meola and Chris Armas to lead the team to the 1995 USISL Championship. He was drafted by the MetroStars in the 9th round of the MLS Inaugural Player Draft and scored the team's lone goal in its first-ever game, a 2:1 loss to the Los Angeles Galaxy on April 13, 1996. Savarese would go on to score the first eight goals in team history (not counting an own goal by a Tampa Bay Mutiny player in the same game that Gio scored from a bicycle kick.
Savarese spent three seasons with the MetroStars, scoring a then-team record 41 goals and 94 points in league play and 44 goals, also a record, and 101 points in all competitions (his all-time team goalscoring record stood until 2007, when it was broken by Clint Mathis. He became a huge fan favorite. He was traded to the New England Revolution amid large fan outcry before the 1999 season and scored 10 goals for the Revs that year. He left MLS to sign with Italian club Perugia in 2000, but the Serie A team loaned him out to serie C 1 club Viterbese
Gio returned to MLS later in 2000, signing with the San Jose Earthquakes in mid-season to play only four games. Savarese then departed for Europe once again, this time signing with Welsh club Swansea City of England's Football League Second Division. He would go on to score 14 goals for the Swans in all competitions.
Savarese's vagabond career continued, as he played one game for English club Millwal and then went back to his native Venezuela to play for Deprtivo Italchacao. After becoming an assistant coach at S T Johon s University, he would play one game for Italian Serie C club Sassari Torres, and then re-sign with the Rough Riders (then in the USL Pro Soccer League in 2004, scoring five goals with the team that first put him on the US soccer map. In 2005, he returned to the MetroStars as the head of their youth development, a position he served in with re-branded Red Bull New York through 2007. Last year Savarese join ESPN deportes as a commentator and currently is the headcoach of the Met Oval U-16 USSF Development Academy Program. Savarese is the CEO and President of Fratelsa Sport Inc, company that covers all aspects of the soccer world. 
  
     


 

 

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