Angelo DiBernardo was born on May 16,1956 and is an Argentine-American former soccer player who played professionally in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League.
22 Facts About Angelo DiBernardo
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Angelo DiBernardo represented the United States at the 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Angelo DiBernardo's family settled in the Chicago area where DiBernardo attended J Sterling Morton High School West in Berwyn, Illinois.
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Angelo DiBernardo played soccer both for the school's soccer team and for Sparta, a local Chicago club.
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Angelo DiBernardo attended Indiana University where he played on the school's men's soccer team for three seasons from 1976 to 1978.
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Angelo DiBernardo had an immediate impact on the team, helping it to the 1976 NCAA Men's Soccer Championship which Indiana lost to San Francisco.
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In 1977, Indiana failed to make the NCAA post-season, but Angelo DiBernardo was selected as a first team All American.
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Angelo DiBernardo finished his collegiate career with 54 goals and 17 assists for 125 points.
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Angelo DiBernardo was selected to the Soccer America College Team of the Century.
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In February 1979, Angelo DiBernardo earned his first cap for the national team, coming on as a substitute for Ty Keough in a loss to the Soviet Union.
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Angelo DiBernardo went on to play every national team game in 1979 and was selected to play for the 1980 US Olympic Team.
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Angelo DiBernardo became an integral part of the US efforts to qualify for the 1982 World Cup and played in the four qualification games in 1980.
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Angelo DiBernardo played the 1979 season with the Aztecs before they traded him and Larry Hulcer to the New York Cosmos.
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Angelo DiBernardo would remain with the Cosmos from 1980 until 1984 when the NASL collapsed.
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Angelo DiBernardo had played for the Cosmos as an amateur in the late 1970s.
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Angelo DiBernardo played defense, midfield and forward with the top NASL team until he pulled a hamstring.
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In 1982, Angelo DiBernardo played only one game before being badly injured in a hard tackle.
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Angelo DiBernardo refused and the team placed him on waivers seven games into the season.
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Angelo DiBernardo played two of the US team's games in the Olympics.
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Since retiring from playing, Angelo DiBernardo became a Spanish teacher and soccer coach at Waubonsie Valley High School in Aurora, Illinois beginning in 1991.
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Angelo DiBernardo founded the Americas Soccer Club with Rudy Keller, who had played with DiBernardo in their youth club days.
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Angelo DiBernardo's daughter Vanessa was a member of the US Women's Under-20 National Team that won the Under-20 Women's World Cup in Japan in 2012.