2013 USL Media gUide - United Soccer Leagues
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2012 <strong>USL</strong> women’S haLL of fame inDUcTeeS<br />
Builder – John Pugh, Ottawa Fury<br />
In July 2002, Pugh acquired the Ottawa Fury <strong>Soccer</strong> Club and transformed<br />
a single W-League franchise into a club that boasts W-League, PDL,<br />
Super Y-League and academy teams along with several grassroots<br />
programs. Since Pugh took over the Fury, the W-League team has<br />
captured nine consecutive division titles, five conference championships<br />
and has made seven Final Four appearances with four trips to the<br />
Championship Game. The club captured its first championship at home<br />
in 2012. Internationally, more than 50 Fury players have been capped<br />
by their respective countries. In 2010, the Fury U17 Girls captured the<br />
Super Y-League North American Championship, highlighting the success<br />
of the Club’s Youth Academy which has seen more than 85 players earn<br />
NCAA scholarships. Pugh is currently a member of the <strong>USL</strong> W-League<br />
Executive Committee, the OSA Technical Committee and was a member<br />
of the Site Organizing Committee for the Ottawa portion of the 2007 FIFA<br />
U20 World Cup.<br />
Coach – Nino DePasquali, New York Magic<br />
The man behind the bench for all 16 of the Magic’s W-League seasons,<br />
DePasquali has led the club to the conference quarterfinals in 2002<br />
and 2003 and the final four in 1998, and 1999. The Magic were division<br />
champions in 1998. A native of Roma, Italy, his professional career<br />
spanned more than 15 years having played for Roma and and Brescia<br />
in Italy, Cologne in Germany, San Gallo in Switzerland and Real Betis<br />
in Spain. In 2005, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the Eastern<br />
New York State Amateur <strong>Soccer</strong> Association.<br />
Coach – Charlie Naimo, Pali Blues, Central Jersey, Jersey Sky Blue,<br />
New Brunswick, NJ Wildcats<br />
Head coach of the Pali Blues, Naimo directed his squad to yet another title<br />
game in 2012, falling against Ottawa in the final. Naimo spearheaded the<br />
Blues to a cumulative 21-0-3 record in 2008 and 2009, capturing a pair<br />
of titles in the club’s first two years without experiencing defeat. Naimo<br />
spent the 2007 season coaching Jersey Sky Blue of the W-League with<br />
the team finishing 12-2 in the regular season before falling to the Ottawa<br />
Fury in the conference semifinal. Naimo first put on the head coaching<br />
hat in 1998 with the New Jersey Splash, receiving W-League Coach of<br />
the Year accolades in 1999. After a stop with the New Brunswick Power,<br />
he took over a struggling New Jersey Wildcats club and orchestrated an<br />
entire reconstruction of the organization. In his three seasons with the<br />
team, Naimo compiled a 41-1 regular season record, leading the club<br />
to regular season titles in 2004 and 2006 while winning the W-League<br />
championship in 2005. In 2005 the Wildcats were named the <strong>USL</strong><br />
Franchise of the Year, and Naimo won the W-League Coach of the Year<br />
award in 2006.<br />
2012 miSL haLL of fame inDUcTeeS<br />
Builder - Earl Foreman<br />
The driving force behind the creation of the MISL in 1977, Foreman<br />
served as the league’s commissioner from 1978-85 and again from 1989-<br />
92. Along with Ed Tepper, Foreman introduced a league that featured six<br />
teams that played a 24-game schedule from December, 1978 to March<br />
of the following year. Under Foreman’s leadership the MISL blossomed<br />
into a 14-team league averaging 9,000 a game with nationally televised<br />
games on ESPN and CBS.<br />
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