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Good news for the Boston College men soccer team! The head coach of this team has added a new member of the team and it is expected that this change brings more positive results to the team.
We are talking about Francisco D’Agostino, a native of Springfield. He’s now part of the staff with the title of associate head coach. D’Agostino enters Boston College after serving as an assistant men’s soccer coach at Harvard until November and the interim head coach until January of 2020.
Bobby Thompson expressed a few words about this addition. He said “I am thrilled to be able to add Frankie to our team. Frankie and I worked together at UMass Lowell and had a great working relationship. He is a terrific evaluator of talent and an extremely hard worker.”
Black History Month: The LeBlanc Effect
Karina LeBlanc was part of the rise of the Canadians from good to world class.
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In soccer, it’s important to have a good goalkeeper. To have a great goalkeeper, however, can take you from good to great to the level of the world class. Canada is lucky that for 17 years, they had a world class goalkeeper in their ranks. That goalkeeper was Karina LeBlanc.
LeBlanc was born in the United States to a father from Dominica and a mother from Jamaica. However, she grew up in Dominica until she was 8 years old, when she moved to British Columbia, Canada. It wasn’t until she was 12 that Karina LeBlanc got into soccer, but she found quickly that she was a natural for the game. By 1997, she was considered one of the top 20 college recruits, despite the fact her high school didn’t have a girls soccer team.